The Insiders' Guide to Factual Filmmaking

ISBN-13: 9780815369783 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 244 str.

Tony Stark

Opis

This is an accessible and comprehensive ‘how to’ guide about the craft of making documentaries for TV, online or social media. Film-maker Tony Stark distils a long career at the BBC and as an independent producer to explain the conceptual, visual, editorial and organisational skills needed to make impactful and stylish factual films.

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION; PART 1: SURVIVAL SKILLS; THE FACTUAL FILM-MAKER’S SKILL-SET, A Survival Guide for Newcomers to the Industry; PART 2: CREATIVE SKILLS; THE ART OF TREATMENT WRITING, Persuading a Commissioner Read your Proposal from Beginning to End; ON LOCATION, Filming Images, Directing Sequences and Working with Reporters; TALKING HEADS, Choosing Contributors, Conducting Interviews and Making your Characters Look and Sound Good on Camera.; VISUAL STORY-TELLING, Constructing and Illustrating a Linear Narrative; FROM PAPER CUT TO FINE CUT, Editing A Factual Film; HOW TO THRIVE IN THE DIGITAL WORLD, Factual Film-Making For Online Platforms; PART 3: PLANNING SKILLS; REDUCING RISK, Keeping Crew and Contributors Safe on Research and Film Trips; PLANNING A PRODUCTION, How to Organise Yourself Before, During and After a Film Shoot; PART 4: UNDERCOVER SKILLS; SECRET FILMING, Evidence, Ethics, Safety and the Law in Undercover Film-Making; PART 5: FINANCIAL SKILLS; COUNTING THE COST, Budgeting a Factual Film

O autorze

Tony Stark is a documentary filmmaker, executive producer and former BBC commissioner with a 30-year career making high profile documentary films and series for broadcast television, specializing in investigative filmmaking. His films have been shown on the BBC, Channel Four, ITV, Al Jazeera, American PBS channels and many European TV channels. His programmes have been nominated for several industry awards: a BAFTA, the Foreign Press Association Media Awards, the Association for International Broadcasting and the San Francisco International Film Festival. For more information go to moonstonefilms.co.uk