"Documentary filmmaker Fadiman chronicles her more than 30 years of experience searching out practical approaches to get her productions funded, finished, and seen, balancing inspiration and commitment with financing, shooting, editing, and promotion." (Publisher description)
"As Alan Rosenthal states in the preface to this new edition of his acclaimed resource for filmmakers, Writing, Directing, and Producing Documentary Films and Videos is “a book about storytelling—how to tell great and moving stories about fascinating people, whether they be villains or heroes.
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In response to technological advances and the growth of the documentary hybrid in the past five years, Rosenthal reconsiders how one approaches documentary filmmaking in the twenty-first century. Simply and clearly, he explains how to tackle day-to-day problems, from initial concept through distribution. He demonstrates his ideas throughout the book with examples from key filmmakers’ work. New aspects of this fourth edition include a vital new chapter titled "Making Your First Film," and a considerable enlargement of the section for producers, "Staying Alive," which includes an extensive discussion of financing, marketing, festivals, and distribution. This new edition offers a revised chapter on nonlinear editing, more examples of precise and exacting proposals, and the addition of a complex budget example with explanation of the budgeting process. Discussion of documentary hybrids, with suggestions for mastering changes and challenges, has also been expanded, while the “Family Films” chapter includes updated information that addresses rapid expansion in this genre." (Publisher description)
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"This study aims at facilitating cost determination and levels of support for local content production in developing countries. It is based on the collection of detailed production costs for feature films for theatrical or television release, television fictions and works of animation, documentaries
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, television magazine programmes and entertainment shows. The data collected relate to the entire production chain, including pre-production, production, post-production, royalties, duplication, dubbing, subtitling, distribution and promotional costs. The 10 countries covered are: Mexico, Colombia, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Egypt, Jordan, India, Cambodia and Latvia. This is a useful tool to independent filmmakers, producers, commissioners, broadcasters, donors and development institutions involved in audiovisual work." (CAMECO Update 1-2008)
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"This booklet is written from the perspective of the small-size film producer and/or entrepreneur. His economic success depends on matching ideas with talent, obtaining relevant intellectual property (IP) rights and using them to attract finance from commercial film distributors" (introduction, page
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6). The publication examines the various stages of the film making process – development (i.e. concept/idea, dealing with financiers); pre-production (i.e. underlying rights acquisitions, attaching key talent, dealing with agents; production (i.e. principal photography); post-production (i.e. editing, adding audio-sound, visual effects); distribution; and exhibition." (commbox)
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"In ihrem Ratgeber „Digitales Filmemachen“ zeigen die Produzenten und Regisseure Dale Newton und John Gaspard angehenden Filmemacher/inn/en, wie sie digitalen Möglichkeiten richtig nutzen, wie man bereits beim Schreiben des Skripts darauf achtet, dass die Kosten nicht aus dem Ruder laufen, wied
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das Budget verlässlich kalkuliert wird, wo es das nötige Equipment gibt, wie das Team zusammengestellt, die Drehtage vorbereitet, der Dreh organisiert wird und am Computer Spezialeffekte generiert werden, die im fertigen Film spektakulär aussehen, aber in den Bilanzen eher unscheinbar bleiben. „Das beste Buch über digitales Filmemachen“, resümierte Screentalk Magazine. „Wenn es darum geht, Digitalfilme billig zu produzieren, kennen diese Typen wirklich keine Hemmungen - ein hilfreiches und sehr humorvolles Handbuch für Anfänger und Profis gleichermaßen“, lobt Oscar-Preisträger und Regisseur Jonathan Demme („Das Schweigen der Lämmer“)." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Documentary Film is organized to present an overview of central issues and then to discuss different subgenres. I particularly wanted to use categories that could address concerns about objectivity, advocacy, and bias that have always swirled around documentary but with renewed vigor since the brea
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kthrough popularity of Fahrenheit 9/11. One could easily select or add other categories, such as music, sports, labor, diary, and food; I selected the ones used in this book because they are common categories in the documentary marketplace, and because they raise important issues about truth and representing reality." (Introduction)
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