Creative Documentary : Theory and Practice (Paperback)

Introduction  Part 1: The creative documentary  1. What is creativity? Wilma de Jong  2. The creative documentary Wilma de Jong  3. The creative industries and documentary Wilma de Jong  4. Passionate business: entrepreneurship and the documentary filmmaker Wilma de Jong  Part 2: Development strategies  5. Developing ideas Jerry Rothwell  6. From idea to pitch Jerry Rothwell  7. Budgets and schedules Jerry Rothwell  Part 3: Narrative strategies  8. The nature of stories and narratives Erik Knudsen  9. Life does not tell stories: structuring devices in documentary filmmaking Wilma de Jong  10. The classic narrative Erik Knudsen  11. The transcendental narrative Erik Knudsen  12. Cinematic codes Erik Knudsen  13. New media, new documentary forms Mary Agnes Krell  Part 4: Production strategies  14. A good waltz or a nasty tango: individual qualities of the ‘total’ filmmaker and teamwork Wilma de Jong  15. Producing Jerry Rothwell  16. Directing Erik Knudsen  17. Camera and cinematography Erik Knudsen  18. Interview strategies Jerry Rothwell  19. The uses and abuses of archive footage Toby Haggith  20. Zen and the art of documentary editing Wilma de Jong  21. Being there: the creative use of location and post-production sound in documentaries Jean Martin  Part 5: Distribution strategies  22. Online, portable and convergence environments Erik Knudsen  23. Delivery and compliance Jerry Rothwell  Bibliography  Appendix Documentary filmmaking: a historical overview