Documentary Directing and Storytelling: How to Direct Documentaries and More!

The two-thousand-twenty-two edition has been updated, edited and corrections made recently. This book is a learning experience and an exploration of directing documentary story projects. Secondly, it provides fundamental and advanced ideas about documentary filmmaking and nonfiction storytelling using film, video, multimedia, and other mediums. There are numerous critical reviews of documentary films and the stories they tell from a directing and filmmaking perspective. Understanding the storytelling structure of specific documentary directing styles helps in learning and building a personal directing approach. The best directors understand the traditions and aesthetics of the medium in which they work. They also understand the crafts involved and may have worked at some of those jobs themselves. The focus of this book is on directing, but it also includes information that experienced directors should know about the process of constructing a documentary story. Finally, this book is a great read for anyone with a strong interest in documentary or nonfiction storytelling.

Author: James R. Martin
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 06/20/2018
Pages: 246
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d
ISBN: 9781721679461

About the Author
James R. (Jim) Martin is an Emmy, award winning Producer, Writer, Director of Film, Television, Video, Multimedia and Digital Media Productions. Formerly Director of the Documentary Filmmaking Course at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida for 20 years. Professor Martin taught film production at Columbia College in Chicago for 13 years and Film Directing at University of Central Florida. Credits include two Emmy nominations and an Emmy Award for nationally aired PBS documentaries - Fired-up Public Housing is My Home and Chicago Film Festival, Golden Plaque and Best Network Documentary, for Emmy nominated, and nationally aired, Wrapped In Steel. Editor, cameraman, producer, writer and director of both fiction and documentary films and video. Books by James R Martin Create Documentary Films, Videos and Multimedia 3rd Edition Actuality Interviewing and Listening Listen, Learn, Share


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