Documentary Director and Production - (Third Edition)

Author: Robert Rotha
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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 philosophy as the main thread, supplemented by classic and detailed examples. It comprehensively elaborates on and explores the challenges often encountered in the process of documentary creation, from conception to distribution, such as documentary ideas and topic selection, the key points of writing project proposals, research content and methods, film structure, the director's responsibilities, interviews, on-site shooting, scriptwriting, editing methods and complexity, budget analysis, production and financing approaches, problems and challenges, etc. It also provides practical solutions, strategies, and techniques. Not only does it possess a complete systematic and theoretical foundation, but it also offers 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 rare, high-quality reference manual and practical guide for documentary creators and professionals.