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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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Interview Techniques for Documentary and Social Filmmakers – A Continuation

Posted in Techniques, tagged on October 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Just when I though we were at the end of the discussion on Interview Techniques, along comes a whole lot of new ideas.  Please make sure you follow the details in our LinkedIn Discussion. Previous Posts: Interview Techniques for Documentary and Social Filmmakers Interview Techniques – The Documentary Filmmakers Handbook Interview Techniques for Social Filmmakers – [...]

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Interview Techniques for Documentary and Social Filmmakers

Posted in Techniques, tagged , , on February 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

We may have reached the end of this exploration on interview techniques, so I want to thank everybody that participated in the discussion. As I posted this question some 30 days ago, I had no idea that so many would take the time to reply. However, in doing so, you energy was more than additive, [...]

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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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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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