Steps of documentary filmmaking:

Planning Research, Gathering Photographs and Archival Footage Filming Interviews Filming Live Action, or B-Rolle Writing Script Viewing and Organizing Footage Editing, Post-Production Work on Sound and Image

Director of pro-Nazi documentaries such as Triumph of the Will (1935)

Director of made-for-tv documentaries such as The Civil War (1990). PBS. Note use of primary sources and historical photos

Director of films such as The Thin Blue Line (1988) and The Fog of War (2003) and many more. Noted for reenactments and remarkable interviews. He has written about documentary as an exploration of what is true.

French film director, photographer, and artist active from the 50s to a couple years ago. In dramatic films and documentary films, such as The Gleaners and I, Faces Places, she captured the lives of everyday places and ordinary individuals.

he has had a major impact on documentary, eschewing “educational’ documentary and engaging audiences with sometimes outrageous storytelling. He narrates his own films and puts himself in the picture and in the process

German director of films such as Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) and Grizzly Man. Herzog has had a long career in fictional and documentary films. Associated with the New German Cinema of the 1970s. Aims, he says, at “the emotional truth” of the story

Director of dramatic films such as Selma and A Wrinkle in Time, and also of several powerful documentaries such as 13th (2016). Her filmmaking is engaged and activist, as she takes up powerful questions of American history.

It is going to take some time to make stuff that lives up to your good taste. This is going to take practice - so keep shooting and editing

Building blocks of story

build story with "but" and "therefore" and "however" - rather than this happened then this happened

Storytelling requires a beginning, middle, and end

introduction, conflict and rising action, resolution)

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Documentary

Question	Answer
What is Documentary?	Truth telling but artificial, storytelling about people and the world.
Cameras + Equipment	Iphone, camera, and tripod
Doc planning	Pre-Production, Production, Post-Production
Steps of documentary filmmaking:	Planning Research, Gathering Photographs and Archival Footage Filming Interviews Filming Live Action, or B-Rolle Writing Script Viewing and Organizing Footage Editing, Post-Production Work on Sound and Image
Leni Riefenstahl	Director of pro-Nazi documentaries such as Triumph of the Will (1935)
Ken Burns	Director of made-for-tv documentaries such as The Civil War (1990). PBS. Note use of primary sources and historical photos
Errol Morris	Director of films such as The Thin Blue Line (1988) and The Fog of War (2003) and many more. Noted for reenactments and remarkable interviews. He has written about documentary as an exploration of what is true.
Agnes Varda	French film director, photographer, and artist active from the 50s to a couple years ago. In dramatic films and documentary films, such as The Gleaners and I, Faces Places, she captured the lives of everyday places and ordinary individuals.
Michael Moore	he has had a major impact on documentary, eschewing “educational’ documentary and engaging audiences with sometimes outrageous storytelling. He narrates his own films and puts himself in the picture and in the process
Werner Herzog.	German director of films such as Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) and Grizzly Man. Herzog has had a long career in fictional and documentary films. Associated with the New German Cinema of the 1970s. Aims, he says, at “the emotional truth” of the story
Ava Duvernay.	Director of dramatic films such as Selma and A Wrinkle in Time, and also of several powerful documentaries such as 13th (2016). Her filmmaking is engaged and activist, as she takes up powerful questions of American history.
Ira Glass Rule	It is going to take some time to make stuff that lives up to your good taste. This is going to take practice - so keep shooting and editing
An important rule of storytelling	show rather than tell
Building blocks of story	build story with "but" and "therefore" and "however" - rather than this happened then this happened
Storytelling requires a beginning, middle, and end	introduction, conflict and rising action, resolution)

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