Documentary Director and Production (Third Edition)

Author: (USA) Robert Rosen, translated by Zhang Wenjun
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: This book combines the author's extensive experience and outstanding achievements in documentary directing, production, and teaching, with a focus on creative concepts as the main thread. It is supplemented by classic and detailed examples, comprehensively elaborating on and exploring the challenges often encountered in the process of documentary creation, from conception to distribution. These include documentary ideas and topic selection, key points in writing project proposals, research content and methods, film structure, the director's responsibilities, interviews, on-site shooting, scriptwriting, editing methods and complexities, budget analysis, production and funding approaches, problems and challenges, and more. The book provides practical solutions, strategies, and techniques for addressing these issues. It not only possesses a complete systematic and theoretical foundation but also demonstrates strong practicality and guidance. This book can serve as a textbook for undergraduate or graduate courses in film and television directing and production at universities and colleges, as well as a valuable, high-quality reference manual and practical guide for documentary creators and professionals.