Documentary Voice & Vision

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

Part 1 ■ DEVELOPING YOUR DOCUMENTARY

CHAPTER 1: FINDING AND DEVELOPING IDEAS

■ What is a Documentary?

■ Where Do Documentary Ideas Come From?

■ Your Artistic Identity

■ Research

■ The Importance of a Hypothesis

■ “Casting” Your Documentary

Active vs Passive Characters

Juggling Multiple Characters

■ The Value of the Documenting Process

■ Feasibility

■ The Specific and the Universal

CHAPTER 2: DOCUMENTARY STYLES

■ A Brief and Selective History of the Documentary

Impressionistic Filmmaking

Dziga Vertov and Reflexivity

The British Film Movement and the Expository Film

TV Documentary as a Subgenre of the Expository Style

Observational Filmmaking

From the Observational to a Reemergence of the Reflexive

Reenactment ...