Creative documentary: theory and practice

"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 asp."

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; About the authors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1 The creative documentary; 1 What is creativity?; 2 The creative documentary; 3 The creative industries and documentary; 4 Passionate business: entrepreneurship and the documentary filmmaker; Part 2 Development strategies; 5 Developing ideas; 6 From idea to pitch; 7 Budgets and schedules; Part 3 Narrative strategies; 8 The nature of stories and narratives; 9 Life does not tell stories: structuring devices in documentary filmmaking; 10 The classic narrative; 11 The transcendental narrative12 Cinematic codes13 New media, new documentary forms; Part 4 Production strategies; 14 A good waltz or a nasty tango: individual qualities of the 'total' filmmaker and teamwork; 15 Producing; 16 Directing; 17 Camera and cinematography; 18 Interview strategies; 19 The uses and abuses of archive footage; 20 Zen and the art of documentary editing; 21 Being there: the creative use of location and post-production sound in documentaries; Part 5 Distribution strategies; 22 Online, portable and convergence environments; 23 Delivery and compliance; Bibliography; Useful websites.