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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The International Documentary Association
Review of the Book
| So You Want to be a Documentarian?
A Primer for Seeking the Truth
of a Story
By Cynthia Close, Executive Director
Documentary Educational Resources
CLICK TO READ THE REVIEW
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Read What Filmmakers Are
Saying 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
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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.
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Read a Chapter...
Or Two!
| 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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Promised Downloads
| Download the budgeting checklist from Appendix 5.
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Bibliography
| A list of useful books for documentary filmmakers.
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Filmography
| A list of the films mentioned in the book — plus some other good films.
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Readers' Bulletin Board
| Want to post a comment about the book? Or a question about it?
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E-mail the Author
| To send an e-mail to Barry Hampe:
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