ABSTRACT
Documentary Storytelling has reached filmmakers and filmgoers worldwide with its unique focus on the key ingredient for success in the growing global documentary marketplace: storytelling. This practical guide reveals how today’s top filmmakers bring the tools of narrative cinema to the world of nonfiction film and video without sacrificing the rigor and truthfulness that give documentaries their power. The book offers practical advice for producers, directors, editors, cinematographers, writers and others seeking to make ethical and effective films that merge the strengths of visual and aural media with the power of narrative storytelling.
In this new, updated edition, Emmy Award-winning author Sheila Curran Bernard offers:
- New strategies for analyzing documentary work
- New conversations with filmmakers including Stanley Nelson (The Black Panthers), Kazuhiro Soda (Mental), Orlando von Einsiedel (Virunga), and Cara Mertes (JustFilms)
- Discussions previously held with Susan Kim (Imaginary Witness), Deborah Scranton (The War Tapes), Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side), and James Marsh (Man on Wire).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |16 pages
Introduction
part |103 pages
Understanding Story
chapter |18 pages
Story Basics
chapter |16 pages
Finding the Story
chapter |23 pages
Story Structure
chapter |11 pages
Time on Screen
chapter |11 pages
Creative Approach
chapter |19 pages
Close Viewing
part |110 pages
Working with Story
chapter |16 pages
Research
chapter |15 pages
Planning and Pitching
chapter |20 pages
Treatments and Proposals
chapter |14 pages
Shooting
chapter |22 pages
Editing
chapter |17 pages
Narration and Voice-Over
chapter |2 pages
Storytelling: A Checklist
part |112 pages
Talking about Story
chapter |12 pages
Alex Gibney
chapter |10 pages
Susan Kim
chapter |15 pages
James Marsh
chapter |14 pages
Cara Mertes
chapter |13 pages
Stanley Nelson
chapter |14 pages
Deborah Scranton
chapter |16 pages
Kazuhiro Soda
chapter |14 pages
Orlando von Einsiedel
part |8 pages
Additional Material