Documentary Voice & Vision ─ A Creative Approach to Non-Fiction Media Production

Learn the creative and technical essentials of documentary filmmaking with the new Documentary Voice & Vision. This comprehensive work combines clear, up-to-date technical information, production techniques and gear descriptions with an understanding of how those choices can create meaning and serve a director’s creative vision. Drawing on the authors’ years of experience as documentary filmmakers, and on interviews with a range of working professionals in the field, the book offers concrete and thoughtful guidance through all stages of production, from finding and researching ideas, to production, editing and distribution. Documentary Voice & Vision will help students and aspiring filmmakers think though research and story structure, ethics, legal issues and aesthetics, as well as techniques from camera handling to lighting, sound recording and editing. The book explores a full range of production styles, from expository to impressionsitic to observational, as well as an overview of contemporary distribution options.

Documentary Voice & Vision is a companion text to Mick Hurbis-Cherrier’s Voice & Vision: A Creative Approach to Narrative Film and DV Production and employs a similar style and approach to the classic text, but from the perspective of a documentary filmmaker with examples from the world of non-fiction filmmaking. This comprehensive offering is completed by a robust companion website featuring additional resources and interactive figures.

Kelly Anderson's documentaries include My Brooklyn (2012) andEvery Mother’s Son (2004, with Tami Gold). Her work has been screened on the PBS seriesPOV and on HBO, and she was nominated for a national Emmy Award. She is a Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College, City University of New York.

Martin Lucas is a documentary filmmaker and educator with over 30 years of experience making and speaking about documentary worldwide. His most recent film,Hiroshima Bound (2015), is a personal exploration of coming to terms with the Atomic Bomb. He teaches at Hunter College, City University of New York.

Mick Hurbis-Cherrier teaches film production and screenwriting at Hunter College (CUNY). Professionally, he has worked as a screenwriter, director, cinematographer, and editor. He is the author ofVoice & Vision: A Creative Approach to Narrative Film and DV Production 2^nd ed. (Focal Press) and the co-author ofDirecting: Film Techniques and Aesthetics, 5th ed. (Focal Press) (w/ Michael Rabiger).