Creative Documentary - Theory and Practice

Informationen zum Autor Wilma de Jong, Erik Knudsen, Jerry, Rothwell Klappentext What does it mean to be a documentary filmmaker in today's world? How are new technologies changing documentary filmmaking? What new forms of documentary are emerging?Recent technological developments have made the making and distribution of documentary films easier and more widespread than ever before. Creative Documentary: theory and practice is an innovative and essential guide that comprehensively embraces these changing contexts and provides you with the ideas, methods, and critical understanding to support successful documentary making. It helps the aspiring 'total filmmaker' understand the contemporary contexts for production, equipping you also with the understanding of creativity and visual storytelling you'll need to excel. Bridging the gap between the theory and practice, it outlines the contemporary institutional, practical and financial contexts for production, always encouraging innovation and originality.Creative Documentary: theory and practice is an essential guide for those engaged in the study and practice of documentary theory and making, as well as key reading for those more broadly in video, film and media theory and production. Zusammenfassung What does it mean to be a documentary filmmaker in today's world? How are new technologies changing documentary filmmaking? What new forms of documentary are emerging? Recent technological developments have made the making and distribution of documentary films easier and more widespread than ever before. Creative Documentary: Theory and Practice is an innovative and essential guide that comprehensively embraces these changing contexts and provides you with the ideas! methods! and critical understanding to support successful documentary making. It helps the aspiring 'total filmmaker' understand the contemporary contexts for production! equipping you also with the understanding of creativity and visual storytelling you'll need to excel. Bridging the gap between theory and practice! it outlines the contemporary! institutional! practical and financial contexts for production - always encouraging innovation and originality.Key features: Five sections covering creativity and creative documentary and the contemporary creative industries: strategies for developing documentary ideas; the art of documentary narrative; digital production methods; new documentary forms; distribution and financing. Provides a comprehensive overview of critical thought and techniques in digital documentary filmmaking. Authors and specialist contributors combine the experience! knowledge and skills of academics and media professionals working in the industry. Practical case studies support analysis and reflection. Exercises! checklists! interviews with professionals and further reading materials accompany each chapter. A historical overview of world documentary. Creative Documentary: Theory and Practice is an essential guide for those engaged in the study and practice of documentary theory and making! as well as key reading for those more broadly interested in video! film and media theory and production. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part 1: The creative documentary 1. What is creativity? Wilma de Jong 2. The creative documentary Wilma de Jong 3. The creative industries and documentary Wilma de Jong 4. Passionate business: entrepreneurship and the documentary filmmaker Wilma de Jong Part 2: Development strategies 5. Developing ideas Jerry Rothwell 6. From idea to pitch Jerry Rothwell 7. Budgets and schedules Jerry Rothwell Part 3: Narrative strategies 8. The nature of stories and narratives Erik Knudsen 9. Life does not tell stories: structuring devices in documentary filmmaking Wilma de Jong 10. The classic narrative Erik Knud...

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• Authors: Wilma de Jong, Wilma De Jong, Erik Knudsen, Jerry Rothwell
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.08.2011
• EAN: 9781405874229
• ISBN: 978-1-4058-7422-9
• No. of pages: 392
• Dimensions: 193 mm x 245 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Print on Demand
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet