Documentary Storytelling

"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 wher storytelling weaves into the overall process."---Canadian Screenwriter (Writers Guild of Canada) "Bernard is keenly aware of the power persuasive images, and her insistence on complexity and integrity is a consistent theme throughout the book."---The Independent (Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers)"[B]rilliant and effective." Documentary Storytelling has reached filmgoers worldwide with its unique focus on the most important and cost-effective tool of nonfiction filmmaking: storytelling. This practical guide reveals how today's top filmmakers bring the tools of drama to the world of nonfiction filmmaking, without sacrificing the rigor and truthfulness that give documentaries their power. Whathr Your project is verite or archival history, low budget or high, this book offers practical advice for every member of the production team at every stage of production, from research through shooting and editing. This third edition has been updated and improved, with new content throughout and new interviews with Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side), James Marsh (Man on Wire), Deborah Scranton (The War Tapes), and others, in addition to previous interviews with filmmakers including Steven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan (So Much So Fast), Ric Burns (New York), Nick Fraser (BBC Storyville), and Sam Pollard (When the Leves the Levees Broke)