Directing the documentary
Directing the Documentary, Sixth Edition is the definitive book on the form, offering time-tested principles to help you master the craft. Ideal for documentary courses as well as aspiring and established documentary filmmakers, this book has it all, with in-depth lessons and insider perspectives on...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Focal Press
2015.
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| Edición: | 6th ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009629209306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface to the Sixth Edition; Contents of Companion Website; Book I: Observing; Part 1: You and Your Ideas; 1 You and Film Authorship; The Director's Temperament; Unfinished Business: How Your Life Has Usefully Marked You; Project 1-1: The Self-Inventory (Marks and Themes); Project 1-2: What Is the Family Drama?; The Work of the Director; Witnessing with the Future Box; Ethnography; Working for Social Change; A Rewarding Way of Life; Learning from What you Shoot ; Filmmaking Democratized
- The Ordinary Can be ExtraordinaryDocumentaries that Cross Boundaries and Buck Trends; Importance of Creativity; Documentary as a Prelude to Directing Fiction; Getting an Education; Film School; Teaching Yourself; Planning Your Future; Journals; Internships as a Student; Hands-On Learning; 2 The Nature of Documentary; Beginnings; Grierson's Definition; Documentary as Art; An Oral Tale with a Purpose; Art Finds Order; Characters with Goals; Philosophies of Approach; Observational Mode; Participatory Mode; Making Incursions; Giving, Not Just Taking; A Workhorse Genre
- Testing for Documentary ValuesLearning From Your Work; The Artistic Process; When You Lose Your Way; Privacy and Competition Issues; Hostile Environments; Hands-On Learning; Part 2: Documentaries and Film Language; 3 Documentary History; Technology and Screen Language; Birth of the Cinema; The Documentary Arrives on the Scene; Documentary Paradoxes; The Cinematic Eye; Sound; Travelogue; Essay Films; Shooting Goes Mobile; Direct Cinema and Cinéma Vérité; Observational Documentary; Participatory Documentary; Waiting for Privileged Moments; Objectivity and Subjectivity; Which Approach is Best?
- The Ascendency of EditingThe Three-Act Structure in Documentary; Video and Digital Technology; Eclectic Filmmaking; Longitudinal Study; Brechtian Protest; Documentary Noir; Diary; Ambush and Advocacy; Archive-Based Filmmaking; 3D Documentaries; The Interactive Documentary; Hands-On Learning; 4 Constructing Reality; The "Contract" and Exposition; Actuality and Evidence; Types of Actuality; Objectivity, Balanced Reporting, and Propaganda; Fairness; Evidence Then and Now; Documentary is Not Reality, But a Construct; Drama; Authored Constructs; Conflict; Character-Driven or Plot-Driven Stories
- Dramatic TensionDevelopment; Film Language; Form and Style; Hands-On Learning; 5 Story Elements and Film Grammar; Perception and Making Stories; How Screen Language Mimics Consciousness; Documentary Ingredients and Human Consciousness; Elements; A Guiding Theory; Shots are Like the Human Gaze; Cuts; Camera Movement; Motivated Camera Movements and Cuts; Denotation and Connotation; The Camera in Relation to Action; Preparing to Shoot with Feeling; The Actor and the Acted-Upon; Observing a Conversation; Hunting Subtexts; Hidden Agendas and Subtexts; Attention and Focus; Eye Contact and Eyelines
- Looking At, and Looking Through
