Video and Film Documentary Production Books

Books for Writing & Making Documentary Films and Videos

• Digital Filmmaking 101: An Essential Guide to Producing Low Budget Movies
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-Dale Newton, John Gaspard / Paperback 300 pages / Published July 2001
This essential book guides the novice filmmaker through each stage of using digital film. Inclkudes writing the script, drawing up a working budget, getting funding, selecting equipment, developing a cast, finding a crew, and creating a shooting schedule. It gives examples of special effects, breaking down your script and examples of actor and location release forms, even inexpensive meal suggestions for feeding your cast and crew during production!
Would-be filmmakers seeking practical, friendly advice will find this a handy reference.
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• Making Documentary Films and Reality Videos
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-Barry Hampe / Paperback 320 pages / Published January 1997
A practical guide to planning, filming, and editing documantaries of real events. An excellent guide for professional and beginning film makers.
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• Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen
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-Steven D. Katz / Paperback 325 pages / Published July 1991
This book provides a good introduction to the basic concepts of film production. The author explains that one of the main tasks of filmmaking is to bridge our three-dimensional reality with the two-dimensionality of the screen. He covers the number of technical options filmmakers can use to create an interesting stream of shots, a continuity that will make sense to the viewers and tell the film's story. Covering the various stages of moviemaking, he advising them at every turn to visualize the films they wish to produce. He provides in-depth coverage of production design, storyboarding, spatial connections, editing, scene staging, depth of frame, camera angles, point of view, and the various types of stable compositions and moving camera shots. The book is filled throughout with visual techniques for filmmakers and screenwriters who want to expand their professional knowledge.
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• Directing the Documentary ~Usually Ships in 2-3 Days
-Michael Rabiger / Paperback 464 pages, 3rd Edition / Published November 1997
This authorative and comprehensive is written by a seasoned documentary filmmaker. Covers in detail all aspects of making excellent film documentaries.
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• Making Videos for Money: Planning and Producing Information Videos, Commercials, and Infomercials
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-Barry Hampe / Paperback 320 pages / Published February 1998
This book provides specific and detailed information on producing and finishing successful videos. Includes specific, useful information on how to plan, write, direct, and complete client-sponsored videos successfully. Discussions of techniques are easy to follow and case studies deal with real world examples.
This book is a great resource and guide for the emerging corporate video producer.
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• Video Scriptwriting: How to Write for the $4 Billion Commercial Video Market
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-Barry Hampe / Paperback 352 pages / Published April 1993
This is a comprehensive guide book to learning how to write information and commercial videos for profit. Shows what is involved in market researching, organizing and writing commercial videos. This book is a writer's guide to making money by writing scripts for commercial videos. A comprehensive handbook that shows what is involved in researching, organanizing, and writing a commercial video. In a step-by-step process the book explains how to make the transaction from thinking in words to thinking in pictures. A valuable resource for producers, directors, and students of film and video production.
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• Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Erik Barnouw / Paperback 400 pages, 2nd Edition / Published January 1993
This book will provide you with an accurate and informative history of the art of documenatary filmmaking.
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• Cross-Cultural Filmmaking: A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos
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-Llisa Barbash, Lucien Taylor / Paperback 584 pages / Published November 1997
This hadbook was written primarily for anthropologists and other proffessionals with a need for instruction on making films about people in their daily lives. Covers fundraising, fieldwork, equipment selection and use, shooting the film and assembling the film and video shots. Includes the practical and technical aspects of film making. Includes 56 photographs and 24 illustrations.
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• Introduction to Documentary ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Bill Nichols / Paperback 223 pages / Published November 2001
This book on documentaries discusses how documentaries are different from other types of films, and what documentaries are all about. Covers some of the ethical issues central to documentary filmmaking, what gives documentary films their distinctive voice, and the different types of documentary films.
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• Visual Anthropology: Photography As a Research Method ~Usually Ships in 2-3 Days
-John Collier, Jr, Malcom Collier, Edward T. Hall
Paperback 248 pages, Revised / Published December 1986
An excellent book that explains how to use your cameras for filmmaking and recording and documenting images for research purposes.
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• Writing For Video ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Gene Bjerke / Paperback 164 pages / Published March 1997
Script writers of all levels of experience will profit from this book. The step-by-step process of creating the script for an informative video or film is explained in detail. Examples of script are included. Includes a Glossary of video production terms and biblography.
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• Photography ~Usually Ships in 2-3 Days
-Barbara London, John Upton / Paperback 426 pages, 6th Edition / August 1997
This very popular beginner's teaching course is an excellent book to begin with to learn photography.
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