"This illustration-filled book offers a self-teaching course in making documentaries, beginning with important advice on how to recognize, define, and research a theme that will ultimately become a movie's subject. Lessons that follow describe the equipment that filmmakers must either own or rent for shooting and editing, explain the journalistic and production processes required for identifying locations and interviewing subjects, and review the cinematic and editing skills that budding filmmakers must master. The Documentary Moviemaking Course covers all practical filmmaking details, including equipment and format; funding and budgeting; pre-production; shooting; editing and post-production; publicity and Distribution. The enlightening and instructive text is supplemented with more than 350 illustrations." (Publisher description)