Filmmaking Articles and Advice from Film Consultant Peter D. Marshall
Posted in Documentary Filmmaking on Apr 25th, 2009
Read this article from Baltimore Sun. “Are media workers driving stakes into their own hearts by embracing shorter and shorter forms of digital storytelling – thereby helping create even shorter attention spans among young audience members? That’s one of the questions posed by Leo Eaton, the Maryland-based producer of such high-end PBS and BBC documentaries as Michael Wood’s The Story [...]
Posted in Documentary Filmmaking on Apr 14th, 2009
Read this article from Cause Global. “Upheavals in the news business have created a shortage of people telling deep and complex stories about critical issues in society, says Cara Mertes, director of the Sundance documentary film program, and that gap is giving rise to a new trend, what Mertes calls “self-designated storytelling”—amateur filmmakers stepping in [...]
Posted in Documentary Filmmaking on Mar 27th, 2009
This article is from The Wrap. “A new online distribution system for documentaries launched in July has found widespread consumer adoption, but is still not close to providing substantive income to documentary or low-budget filmmakers. Read article. ———- THE DIRECTOR’S CHAIR: Sign up for your own FREE subscription to “The Director’s Chair” filmmaking ezine, packed [...]
Posted in Filmmaking Tips on Mar 16th, 2009
Watch this 8 part documentary from Michael W. Dean and then read his blog on why he put the whole film on YouTube. ———- Is Your Passion to Direct Movies? “The Art and Craft of the Director” is a 201 page multimedia Online audio course filled with 35 years of professional filmmaking tips and techniques [...]
Posted in Documentary Filmmaking on Mar 9th, 2009
This article is from David Bordwell. “People tend to think that documentary films are typified by two conditions. First, the events we see are unstaged, or at least unstaged by the filmmaker. If you mount a parade, the way that Coppola staged the Corpus Christi procession in The Godfather Part II, then you aren’t making a [...]
Posted in Documentary Filmmaking on Feb 23rd, 2009
This article is from All My Faves. “Top Documentary Films is a valuable resource to those with an interest in documentary films. It is run by Vlatko, a European webmaster who simply fell in love with documentaries in quest for more knowledge. He then started searching for documentaries and found a whole collection of them [...]
Posted in Documentary Filmmaking on Feb 23rd, 2009
This article is from Work.com “No matter how brilliant a filmmaker or clever a subject matter, a documentary cannot be made without the means to do so. Documentary film funding does exist, and it may take as much time, effort and talent to secure funding for documentaries as it does to complete the film.” Read [...]
Posted in Documentary Filmmaking on Feb 22nd, 2009
This article is from Multimedia Journalism. “USC Professor Jeremy Kagan and MHZ Networks producer Glenn Luther talk about the challenges for documentary filmmakers.” Read rest of article.
Posted in Documentary Filmmaking on Feb 12th, 2009
This article is from CroatianTimes.com “The fifth ZagrebDox or International Documentary Film Festival will be held at the Zagreb Student Centre from 23 February to 1 March. The biggest international festival of documentary films in the region will feature around 150 films.” Read rest of article. — THE DIRECTOR’S CHAIR: Sign up for your own [...]
Posted in Documentary Filmmaking on Jan 29th, 2009
“The goal of Documentary24.com is to collect the best documentary films available on the internet and to present them to your for free. All documentaries can be watched inside the browser without the need of registration or downloading the movies.” —–– Sign up for your own FREE subscription to “The Director’s Chair” filmmaking ezine, packed [...]
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