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Using the iPad for Social Filmmaking

Posted in Social Filmmaking, Techniques, Tools, tagged , , on October 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The iPad is a wonderful personal productivity, entertainment, and still photography too, but now for filmmaking as well. We often forget the best advice given on the subject of cameras, “The best camera is the one you have with you.” It is equally true now for videography, just as it was then for still photography. [...]

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Best Practice Approaches to Structuring a Documentary

Posted in Social Filmmaking, Techniques, tagged , on January 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Are there any best practice approaches to structuring a documentary film? I am big believer in the Aristotelian approach to story telling, because it seems to be one of the better frameworks capable of capturing the attention span of a diverse audience. The Aristotelian documentary story line centers around three acts:   Act I:0 -25% [...]

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Producing an Unscripted Documentary

Posted in Social Filmmaking, Techniques, tagged , on January 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »

As part of an ongoing discussion investigating best practices in documentary filmmaking; for this thread, I would like to explore planning. When making a documentary that is not driven by a script, what are the necessary pre-production and production activities (without which you would fail)? Here are a few that I have initially found: 1. [...]

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Interview Techniques – The Documentary Filmmakers Handbook

Posted in Social Filmmaking, Techniques, tagged , on January 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The Documentary Filmmakers Handbook is another excellent source of information. Genenvieve Jolliffe and Andrew Zinnes provide a fairly comprehensive view from training to legal, from pre-production to post-production. On page 276, Ian Wright, one of the many contributors, lays out 10 interviewing techniques he uses:   1. Relax your subjects by talking about a non-subject [...]

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Interview Techniques for Social Filmmakers – Web Resources

Posted in Social Filmmaking, Techniques, tagged , , on January 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

There is a wealth of information on documentary interviewing techniques and this discussion is only one small view.Here are five other resources pulled from the 4,420,000 possible Google threads: The Art of the Documentary Interview – “ A great interview is a lesson in the art of eliciting a story from your interviewee. Not just any story, [...]

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Interview Techniques for Social Filmmakers – Peer Dialogue

Posted in Social Filmmaking, Techniques, tagged on January 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

If you haven’t participated in this topic already, please check out the Documentary Filmmaker’s Group discussion on this topic. In that conversation, Marinella Nicolson  makes the observation:   Marinella Nicolson • “I think you’ve hit all the major points in your article – it’s a very good guide for someone starting out. There’s one suggestion [...]

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Interviewing Techniques for Social Filmmakers – Part 2

Posted in Social Filmmaking, Techniques, tagged , on January 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

This is just a brief update to the original “Interview Techniques for Social Filmmakers” blog posted yesterday. I came across an excellent online resource in interviewing techniques that is worth reading: “The Art of the Interview,” by David Tamés. Here are a few highlights from this very comprehensive view on the subject.   Interviewing Tips: >> [...]

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Interview Techniques for Social Filmmakers

Posted in Social Filmmaking, Techniques, tagged , on January 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »

In social filmmaking, a documentary-style venue usually has a narrator telling a story, intercut with other interviewed subjects. Getting the subject to open up in a manner that can shed revealing light during these brief interspersed moments is more of an art than science. The goal is not so much to have a conversation with [...]

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The Science of Blogging

Posted in Blogging, Social Filmmaking, Tools, tagged on December 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

  Blogging is an important part of the social filmmaking process. Without it, the ability to tell stories to other communities would be severely hampered. Many people, however, question the “science” behind the process and are looking for just that one piece of data to get them going. Well, I think it is here. I [...]

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10+ Essential Tools for Social Filmmaking

Posted in Social Filmmaking, Software and Tools, tagged , on July 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Social filmmaking connects different communities through film-based story telling. In social computing terms, the film is the media and its context is what makes it sharable, thus being a type of social media. As such, social filmmaking becomes the application of social computing technologies to the documentary filmmaking workflow. But before we dig into these [...]

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