| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Credits -- Introduction -- Who will Benefit from this Guide? -- What's Covered in this Book? -- Part 1: Survival Skills for Newcomers to Factual Filmmaking -- Part 2: Creative Skills for Producers and Directors -- Part 3: Planning Skills for Newcomers to Factual Filmmaking -- Part 4: Undercover Skills -- Key Editorial, Ethical, Safety and Legal Issues of Secret Filming -- Part 5: Financial Skills -- For Experienced Producers with a Commission Who Need to Budget Their Production |
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Who's Contributed to this Book? -- Part 1 Survival Skills -- 1 The Factual Filmmaker's Skill-Set: A Survival Guide for Newcomers to the Industry -- Multi-Skilled Filmmakers are in Demand -- Collaborative Filmmakers are in Demand -- The Many Creative Decisions that go into the Making of a Factual Film -- Organized Filmmakers are in Demand -- Filmmakers with their 'Ears to the Ground' are in Demand -- The Independent Producer's Skill-Set -- Part 2 Creative Skills -- 2 The Art of Treatment Writing: Persuading a Commissioner to Read your Proposal from Beginning to End |
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Understand what the Commissioner Wants -- Write and Present Your Proposal in an Effective Way -- Avoid the Following when Writing Film Treatments -- Follow These Suggestions When Writing Treatments -- The Narrative and the Context -- Style, Method and Practicality -- Reporters and Presenters -- The Team -- Pitching in Person -- Note -- 3 On Location: Filming Images, Directing Sequences and Working with Reporters -- Shoot it Yourself -- or Pay a Professional to get the Images? -- Making the Most of Your Images and Your Reporters -- Directing with the Camera in Mind -- Pans1 -- Tilts -- Cranes |
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Tracking Shots -- How Changes to the Camera Lens Impact on the Image -- Pulling Focus -- Zooms -- Focal Length and Depth of Field -- Exposure -- Composition -- Directing with the Narrative in Mind -- Getting the Emotional Tone Right -- Choosing a Relevant Location -- Choosing a Relevant Perspective -- Getting the Geography Right -- Images that Convey a Sense of Place, Community and Specific Location -- Geographical Images as a Pausing Device -- Thinking Figuratively -- Dramatic Representation -- Symbolic Representation -- Graphic Representation -- Directing with the Edit in Mind |
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Establishing the Key Elements of a Scene -- Versatility in the Edit -- Directing an Editable Sequence -- Avoid 'Crossing the Line' -- Keeping Continuity of Action -- Overlapping Action -- Entrances and Exits -- Slowing Down Action for Close-Ups -- Significantly Different Shot Sizes Cut Together -- Similar Sizes Don't -- Directing Actuality Sequences -- Directing with Reporters or Presenters in Mind -- Working with an On-Screen Reporter or Presenter -- Speaking to Camera: The 'Pieces-to-Camera' or 'Stand-Ups' -- Ad Hoc, Impressionistic, Descriptive PTCs -- Formal, Pre-Planned Stand-Ups |
| Summary |
"The Insiders' Guide to Factual Filmmaking is a comprehensive "how to" book for making factual video and films. It reveals the underlying filmic, organizational and directorial skills needed to make all types of factual programmes, whatever the budget and whatever the issue being covered. Author Tony Stark takes distils 30 years of experience of broadcast media, taking readers through the steps necessary for producing video content for broadcast news, online news sources, and exploring how factual filmmaking is produced and disseminated. He shows how to write a video treatment, organize, create budgets, negotiate contracts, pitch and sell your videos, produce, direct, and film an engaging, watchable project, and do so ethically and safely. This book is the ideal text for students in filmmaking and broadcast journalism classes, journalists looking to work in video, filmmakers, and general readers looking to produce films of their own. A supporting companion website provides complementary resources including 24 specially shot film clips illustrating key rules of filmic grammar; interactive and downloadable versions of key production forms include a cutting order, call sheet, contributor agreement, location agreement and risk assessment; and a detailed line-by-line deconstruction of a factual film budget"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
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Video recordings -- Production and direction -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Documentary films -- Production and direction -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Television broadcasting of news -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Documentary films -- Production and direction
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Television broadcasting of news
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Video recordings -- Production and direction
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020008940 |
| ISBN |
9781351251464 |
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1351251465 |
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9781351251440 |
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1351251449 |
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1351251457 |
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9781351251433 |
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1351251430 |
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9781351251457 |
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