Many of the most important issues facing our society are also those that powerful people or institutions don’t want made public. Documentary …
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Two entry-level, versatile, compact, sound recording kits for your consideration
I'm often asked by my students what's a good sound recording starter kit that provides the most bang for the buck on a tight budget. In …
A conversation with Elaine McMillion Sheldon about Hollow
Hollow (requires Google Chrome) is an interactive documentary and community participatory project that examines the future of rural America …
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Is the Audio-Technica BP4029 the perfect cinéma-vérite microphone?
In an ideal world we would all have a ninja-class boom operator with us on all of our documentary shoots, but short of that we often place a …
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Four approaches to structuring micro-documentaries
A micro-documentary differs from a long-form documentary in terms of length, structure, and quite often, purpose. While most long-form …
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Some quotes on documentary, cinema, and art that don’t fit in a tweet
Several years ago when I was working on my MFA at MassArt I began collecting quotes related to my thesis work, and here are some of my …
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