If you want to learn how to get a grant for a documentary, here's a good place to start. The MacArthur Foundation 2015 Documentary Fund seeks to support feature documentary films and interactive digital documentaries that combine engaging storytelling with in-depth...
Making broadcast quality video with a smart phone is easier than you might think. When I was working in New York as a freelance cameraman for shows like ABC's 20/20, CBS's 60 Minutes and many more, the cameras we used in those days cost about $60,000. Today that same...
See the Official Academy Award Site. Rent or Buy Academy Award Nominated Films Best Original Song "Everything is Awesome" Music and Lyric by Shawn Patterson The Lego Movie "Glory" Music and Lyric by John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn Selma "Grateful" Music and Lyric by...
Shaky cam, also called queasy cam, is a cinematic technique used to give a scene an ENG (electronic news-gathering) or documentary look to persuade viewers that the subject or scene being filmed was happening live without rehearsal or any artifice. It is often used in...
One Hour of San Diego Surfing Time Collapsed: San Diego Study #4 By Cy Kuckenbaker "There are no CG elements in the video. It’s all documentary footage arranged and collapsed together with After Effects. Compositing water is difficult. The basic strategy I worked out...
Boston Globe multimedia producer Darren Durlach shares his tips on interviewing. The New York Times and most other US newspapers have been using video for a while now. Typically video was a companion to a print story. Occasionally the Times would produce a short...
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Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor are the movers behind the film "Leviathan," a documentary about commercial fishing without interviews, voice-over, narrative or a traditional point of view. The documentary film today is a mostly informational. It's about...
Shoot These Five Shots Among video journalists and documentary producers one tried and true approach to covering a scene is the "five shot" method developed by Michael Rosenblum. Most experienced shooters know the method without thinking about it. Make these shots in...
We've come a long way from the days when the only way you could see a documentary was if you lived in a big city that had an art house theater and happened to know which of the one or two days a particular film was playing. Today, the Internet is exploding with...
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