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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How To Edit and Structure Your Documentary
Editing a documentary is neither easy nor fast. Even when you start with an outline, that outline is likely to change as you get to know the footage, the subjects and events. A good place to start is to look at all the footage while suspending judgement. Look for and...
The Art Of Film And Video Editing Part-5
Documentary Editing - Where Is the Truth? Pare Lorentz, the most influential documentary filmmaker of the Great Depression of the 1930s, defines a documentary film as "a factual film which is dramatic." There are many different definitions of documentary. Rather than...
Errol Morris, One of America’s Greatest Documentary Directors
http://www.errolmorris.com/ Film critic Roger Ebert says that Morris ranks alongside directors like Hitchcock and Fellini. "He's like a magician. You're looking at the left hand which is the subject of the film and the trick is being done over here (on the right...
Selling Your Documentary To Cable
By John Jackman VP, Comenius Communication, Inc. One question I am often asked is how to go about selling a documentary to The History Channel or Discovery or PBS. The question usually starts out asking whether DV is "good enough" for these venues; the questioner then...
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