Creative Documentary

Wilma de Jong, Erik Knudsen, Jerry, Rothwell

What does it mean to be a documentary filmmaker in today's world?

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