The Insiders Guide to Factual Filmmaking

The Insiders' Guide to Factual Filmmaking is a comprehensive how to" book for making factual video and films. It reveals the underlying filmic, organizational and directorial skills needed to make all types of factual programmes, whatever the budget and whatever the issue being covered. Author Tony Stark takes distils 30 years of experience of broadcast media, taking readers through the steps necessary for producing video content for broadcast news, online news sources, and exploring how factual filmmaking is produced and disseminated. He shows how to write a video treatment, organize, create budgets, negotiate contracts, pitch and sell your videos, produce, direct, and film an engaging, watchable project, and do so ethically and safely. This book is the ideal text for students in filmmaking and broadcast journalism classes, journalists looking to work in video, filmmakers, and general readers looking to produce films of their own. A supporting companion website provides complementary resources including 24 specially shot film clips illustrating key rules of filmic grammar; interactive and downloadable versions of key production forms include a cutting order, call sheet, contributor agreement, location agreement and risk assessment; and a detailed line-by-line deconstruction of a factual film budget"--