PART 1: STORY DESIGN; Story Basics; Documentary Storytelling; Approach; Structure; Manipulating Time; Case Studies; PART 2: IDEAS TO TREATMENTS; Research; Casting; Pitching and Proposal Writing; Outlines, Treatments, and Scripts; PART 3: SHOOTING AND EDITING; Shooting; Editing; Writing Narration and Voice-Over; Storytelling: A Checklist; PART 4: CONVERSATIONS ABOUT STORY; Steven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan; Victoria Bruce and Karin Hayes; Ric Burns; Jon Else; Nicholas Fraser; Susan Froemke; Sam Pollard; Kenn Rabin; Per Saari; Onyekachi Wambu; PART 5: ADDITIONAL MATERIAL
Sheila Curran Bernard is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker and the author of Documentary Storytelling, a best selling guide to story and structure in nonfiction filmmaking, and , a guide to using archival footage and material in films. Her archival film credits include the series Eyes on the Prize, I'll Make Me a World, This Far By Faith, America's War on Poverty, and School, for which she also co-wrote the companion book. She has taught at Princeton University and Westbrook College and recently joined the faculty of the University at Albany, State University of New York.
"Brilliant and effective...Documentary Storytelling guides readers
through nearly every phase of creating a documentary: structuring,
working up a proposal, and, of course, shooting and editing" -
Backstage
"Sheila Curran Bernard's ability to dissect a wide range of
narrative apporaches and explore the elements that make dramatic
stories so compelling make this guide invaluable for documentary
filmmakers as well as anyone who uses information and evidence to
portray real events." -Dr. Pennee Bender, Media Director, Center
for Media and Learning, City University of New York, The Graduate
Center.
"With all the buzz over blockbuster docs, Focal Press serves up a
perfectly timed winner in a much-neglected area. True to the nature
of the beast, the book is more about filmmaking as a whole, and how
and where storytelling weaves into the overall process".-Bruce
Mckenna, Canadian Screenwriter (Writers Guild of Canada)
"Bernard is keenly aware of the power of persuasive images, and her
insistence on complexity and integrity is a consistant theme
throughout the book."- Alyssa Worsham, The Independent (Association
of Independent Video and Filmmakers)
"With the availability of high-quality affordable cameras and
editing equipment, documentary filmmakers today enjoy a freedom in
shaping their films that their counterparts a decade ago could't
have imaged. As the new aesthetic is shaped, Sheila Curran
Bernard's brilliant and effective Documentary Storytelling, Second
Edition: Making Stronger and More Dramatic Nonfiction films aims to
guide the Erroll Morrises of tomorrow with great advice and
practical knowledge that every documentatian would benefit
from."-Backstage March 22, 2007
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