Cinematic Documentary Filmmaking: Shoot, Edit, Launch
What Is a Cinematic Documentary?
A course by Chloe White , Documentary Filmmaker and Director
About the video: What Is a Cinematic Documentary?
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll unpick what a documentary is. In recent years, with more affordable equipment and the world of Internet streaming, documentaries are being consumed more than ever before. But what categorises a documentary, and in that vein, what do I mean by a cinematic documentary?”
In this video lesson Chloe White addresses the topic: What Is a Cinematic Documentary?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Cinematic Documentary Filmmaking: Shoot, Edit, Launch. Learn how to make a documentary by creating a short film on a subject of your choice, from the initial research to the post-production process.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we're going to explore what a documentary is. Equipment is now much more affordable. and more mobile than it's ever been before. So in that sense, we can make a film anytime, anywhere. Similarly with online streaming, we can constantly consume documentaries. So the world of non-fiction films is vast. There's news programs, there's reality TV, There's vlogs. There's like presenter-led factual TV programming. So what's the difference between something like that and a documentary? John Grayson defines documentary as the creative treatment of actuality. So we're talking about so...”
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Chloe White
A course by Chloe White
Chloe White is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and photographer and director of Whalebone Films. Her films are intimate, considered portraits, focusing mainly on the female experience. Chloe lectures in Documentary Film at the University College London and London College of Communications, and lives in Hastings, UK.
Her clients and partners include the Guardian, Topic, Al Jazeera, Nowness, BBC, Channel 4, Oxfam, Save the Children and the BFI. She has had films screen at festivals internationally including at Camden International Film Festival, Open City, and Sheffield Doc Fest and is a winner of the prestigious Macdowell fellowship.
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