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Documentary Storytelling: Creative Nonfiction on Screen book cover

5th Edition

Documentary Storytelling Creative Nonfiction on Screen

By Sheila Curran Bernard Copyright 2022
394 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

394 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

394 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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For nearly two decades, Documentary Storytelling has reached filmmakers and filmgoers worldwide with its unique focus on the key ingredient for success in the global documentary marketplace: storytelling. As this revised, updated fifth edition makes clear, nonfiction storytelling is not limited to character-driven journeys, but instead encompasses the diverse ways in which today’s top... Read more

1. Introduction

Part I: Understanding Story

2. Story Basics

3. Identifying the Story

4. Structure

5. Creative Approach

6. Watching Like a Filmmaker

Part II: Working with Story

7. Research and Casting

8. Project Development

9. The Film on Paper

10. Shooting

11. Editing

12. Narration and Voice-Over

13. Storytelling: A Checklist

Part III: Talking about Story

14. Julie Casper Roth

15. June Cross

16. Heidi Gronauer

17. Madison Hamburg　

18. Stanley Nelson　　

19. Dawn Porter

20. Tracy Heather Strain　

21. Orlando von Einsiedel

Biography

Sheila Curran Bernard is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker and writer whose credits include numerous projects for broadcast and theatrical release. She has served on film juries and led master classes in documentary storytelling in the United States and Europe and been honored with residencies at MacDowell and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is an associate professor in the Department of History and the Documentary Studies Program at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

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