ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with a brief review of crowdsourcing, looking at its definitions, motivations, applications, and outcomes with a focus on how these relate to documentary production. The following sections provide overviews of the five major projects and the women behind them, and an exploration of how crowdsourcing within these productions intersects with two major aspects of filmmaking: storytelling and technology. The chapter links these ideas through connections between online. It addresses the topic of crowdsourcing through the modes of storytelling and applications of new technology within contemporary documentary production. The chapter covers the foundation, which come from interviews with five documentary makers, used crowdsourcing as part of their production processes. The primary goal of crowdfunding is to raise money for production and other expenses. Crowdsourcing ideally consists of a co-production model that unites an organization's goals with a crowd's collective intelligence and skills, which suggests that the organization and the crowd work together toward these goals.
