The new, second edition of Making Documentary Films and Videos
fully updates the popular guidebook that has given readers around the
world the knowledge and confidence to produce their first documentary
film.
To find out more about the book or author, read a chapter or two, download information, post a question or comment, check out the filmography and bibliography, or look into some other interesting stuff, click on the menu above or on any item below.
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New Book Review from the International Documentary Assn.
| So You Want to be a Documentarian?
A Primer for Seeking the Truth
of a Story
Review of Making Documentary Films and Videos, Second Edition
By Cynthia Close |
Read What Other Filmmakers Say
About the Book
| “I thoroughly enjoyed the second edition of the book. Hampe
maintains a concise narrative style without sacrificing his sense of humor. He
simply focuses on how to tell a story..." – W. Clark Bunting,
president, Discovery Networks U.S. Production |
Browse the
Table of Contents
| Chapter 1: It Looks
So Easy
Why making a documentary is more than vacuuming up images to
blow back in the face of an audience.
Chapter 2: What Is a Documentary?
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Dip into a Chapter
| In the twenty-first century, we can no longer trust that "seeing is believing" or "the camera never lies; we know otherwise. And
the willingness of highly partisan filmmakers to subordinate honesty to
ideology has...
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An Example of What I Mean About Truth
| A review of the book at Amazon.com turned nasty when the reviewer tried to tarnish the book with half-truths and outright lies.
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Meet the Author
| Then I got
interested in film, studied documentary filmmaking with the late Sol Worth at
the Annenberg School of Communications at Penn, and spent the next several
years directing and editing nonfiction films and videos. About the only writing I was doing in those
years was scripting my own projects.
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