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Documentary Audio Recording
Getting good Audio Often overlooked or neglected is how important the audio part of the story is to the final product. It is extremely important to get dialog, and ambient sounds that are sharp and...
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WITH ONE VOICE Awaken To The Beauty That Unites Us All
With One Voice explores the world of mysticism and it’s role in spirituality and religion. The documentary is a quest to learn from mystics, representing major religions, about their own spiritual...
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BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB
The Buena Vista Social Club documentary captures the soul of Cuba as portrayed in its music and performed by its people. A Documentary film may take many forms. Buena Vista Social Club, directed by Wim...
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PRIMARY, DON'T LOOK BACK, SALESMAN - THREE AMERICAN DIRECT CINEMA VS CINEMA...
Primary, 1960, 53 minutes, directed and filmed by Robert Drew and Richard Leacock initiated a documentary style in which the filmmakers became observers. This form of documenting actuality became known...
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FOR ALL MANKIND
FOR ALL MANKIND, directed by Al Reinert is a compilation documentary that uses footage shot entirely by The National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) over the years of the mission to reach...
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GIMME SHELTER - ROLLING STONES
Viewing Gimme Shelter, A Maysles Films Inc Production, recently released on Blu-ray Disc by Criterion Collection, is a worthwhile trip back to December 1969, and the Altamonte Speedway near San...
View ArticleNANOOK OF THE NORTH - FULL SAIL UNIVERSITY STUDENT COMMENTS
Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North is the first feature-length documentary to run in theaters worldwide. Since then there have been a steady stream of documentary films shown in theaters. Notes on...
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MURDER BALL - FULL SAIL UNIVERSITY STUDENT COMMENTS
All that can be heard in the opening moments of Murder Ball are the ambient sounds of Mark Zupan getting himself into his wheel chair, lifting his body and legs into place and the sound of a...
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Blackfish – Never Capture What You Can’t Control
Blackfish is a documentary that may anger you. It may cause you to never want to go to Sea World again or for the first time. It will make you aware that holding sea mammals like Orca Whales (AKA...
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Twenty Feet From Stardom – 2014 Oscar Best Feature Documentary
In the opening segment of 20 Feet From Stardom, Bruce Springsteen says, “it’s a pretty long walk from background singer to lead… a walk to the front is complicated.” 20 Feet From Stardom, is an...
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Your Inner Fish
Your Inner Fish is a well made television style documentary, three episode series. Episode 1 – Your Inner Fish, Episode 2 – Your Inner Reptile and Episode 3 – Your Inner Monkey. All three episodes...
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Third Edition – Create Documentary Films, Videos and Multimedia
There are many ideas about what makes a documentary film. But a true documentary does not use actors or have scenes “recreated” based on a true story or not. The 2014, 386 page, third edition of...
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LEVITATED MASS
Levitated Mass, directed by Doug Pray is a documentary that has appeal as an adventure story, exploration of the place of monumental art in America, the work of an artist with and alternative view of...
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Canon 7D Mark II and Ninja Star
A look at the new Canon 7D Mark II, the new Atomos Ninja Star Pro Res recorder and how they can be used together to shoot Pro Res HQ 4:2:2 or 4:2:2 footage. Also how the Ninja Star can be used with...
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Turn Right At Machu Picchu – Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
Machu Picchu is one of those places I’ve always wanted to visit. While in the Army, Leon, and I went to the Boston Library and started researching a possible journey we could take when our enlistments...
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Creativity the perfect crime
CREATIVITY – the perfect crime by Philippe Petit is an excellent documentary style nonfiction book that offers an amazing amount of insight into the author’s creative process and how the reader might...
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VIRUNGA
Nominated for an Oscar in the Best Feature Length Documentary category 2015, Virunga is a story that takes the viewer into the chaos of the war-torn Eastern Congo and Virunga National Park in the...
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Making A Short Documentary
Making a short documentary isn’t much different from making a long documentary in theory. But in practice it can be a lot more difficult. There are many unique factors involved in a short form...
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Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
L Ron Hubbard “A civilization without insanity, without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights, are the aims of...
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MUSCLE SHOALS – THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF A SMALL TOWN WITH A BIG SOUND
The documentary film Muscle Shoals is a beautifully shot and edited film directed with sensitivity and class by Greg “Freddy” Camalier. Muscle Shoals is a town on the Tennessee River in Alabama where...
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