Directing the Documentary ANNOTATION
Audience: Beginning documentary filmmakers and film students.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
"Tens of thousands of readers have benefited from Michael Rabiger's classic text on documentary filmmaking, now updated to reflect the revolutionary switch to digital video equipment and software. You will learn how to research and focus a documentary film or video idea, develop a crew, direct the crew, maintain control during shooting, and oversee postproduction. Practical work is emphasized, with dozens of exercises and questionnaires to help you focus your ideas and give you hands-on practice. The documentary is treated as an important genre in its own right, as well as a useful prelude to directing feature films." The fourth edition is a significant update. The book's emphasis has always been on concrete steps you can take to become a documentary filmmaker, and there are loads of new projects to help, along with assessment tables that allow you to gauge your progress. In addition, there is new material on location sound, the reality TV trend, top documentaries to see, and more.
SYNOPSIS
New edition of a Focal classic
New examples from well-known films and projects
Projects guide the reader through all phases of creating a professional-quality documentary.
The Third Edition of Directing the Documentary, like the previous two, guides the reader through the process of making a work for the screen. This includes the real problems of researching and focusing a documentary film or video idea, of developing a crew, of directing the crew and participants, and of maintaining control during shooting. It guides the reader through the complex evolutionary process of post-production, when the film's true characteristics can really begin to emerge and assert themselves.
About the Author:
Michael Rabiger has worked in the cutting room in feature films, as an editor and director in documentaries, and as a production and aesthetics educator for many years. He has directed or edited more than 35 films and is director of the documentary center at Columbia College, Chicago. Most recently, he has led a multinational European documentary workshop for the World Consortium of film schools, and has taught narrative writing, directing, and production as Visiting Professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
FROM THE CRITICS
Booknews
Takes a hands-on, project-oriented approach to using the screen as a tool of inquiry and self-expression. Covers the entire filming process, from conception through postproduction, and discusses such topics as cinma vrit techniques, handheld and tripod modes, current issues in documentary and editing theory, and authorial identity. Includes numerous line drawings, diagrams, and black-and- white photographs, as well as a list of international film schools. Appropriate for both beginners and professionals. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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