The Documentary Filmmaker's Intuition

ISBN-13: 9781032335803 / Twarda / 2023 / 256 str.

Shannon Walsh

Opis

This book is an introduction to the art and craft of documentary film making with a focus on ethics and impact from development through distribution. Author Shannon Walsh explores point-of-view storytelling, writing for non-fiction, and the art of social change documentary.

Spis treści

1.  Documentary Production: Fear, Failure & Intuition  2. Finding Stories & Ideas  3. Research, Access & Point of View  4. Ethics: Representationm Subjectivity and the Colonized Image  5. Challenigng Forms: Ecstatic Truth & Elusive Fiction  6. Intimacies: Autobiography, Family Histories and Personal Story-telling  7. Script & Treatment Writing For Documentary  8. Developing Strategies for Impact  9. Shooting & Editing in Development  10. Preparing the Pitch: Structure and Components of a Good Pitch  11. Directing with the Moment: Aliveness, Adaptation and Awareness  12. Preparing for Production: Considerations As You Start Shooting  13. Ethics in Production: Dealing with Film Participants and Crews  14. Talking to Strangers: Establishing Relationships & Doing Interviews  15. Building Community Through Filming Community  16. Post-Production Editing, Organizing Material and Re-writing  17. Sparking Impact: Creating Strategies for Change  18. Marketing & Distribution in the Digital Age  Further Reading & Resources

O autorze

Shannon Walsh is a filmmaker, an Associate Professor in Film Production at the University of British Columbia, and a Research Associate at the South African Research Chair in Social Change at the University of Johannesburg. She has written and directed six feature documentaries. Her films have been theatrically released, broadcast on networks such as ARTE, Al-Jazeera, CBC and Netflix, and screened at film festivals and museums globally. She has also published two edited books and many articles and chapters exploring issues such as inequality, social justice and visual methods. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2020, and awarded the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Art in 2023.