This volume provides exercises and projects to help the reader draw an artistic self-profile to summarize what he or she needs to investigate in creative work. It teaches narrative structure and critical language.
Michael Rabiger's Directing the Documentary is the established guidebook to the process of making a documentary work for the screen. This includes the real problems of researching and focusing a documentary film or video idea, developing a crew, directing the crew and participants, and maintaining control during shooting. Rabiger also leads the reader through the complex evolutionary process of postproduction, where the film's true characteristics can really begin to emerge and assert themselves.
A practical guide to directing including pre-production, production and post-production and a discussion of aesthetics and authorship. It also includes a number of projects and execises for readers to use for practicing techniques.
Michael Rabiger guides the reader through the stages required to conceive, edit and produce a documentary. He also provides advice on the law, ethics and authorship as well as career possibilities and finding work.