Making Documentary Films and Videos by Barry Hampe

New Edition of a Practical Guide to Planning, Filming, and Editing Documentaries

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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.

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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

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“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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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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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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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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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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