On a professional documentary production, obtaining proper written permissions is the responsibility of the producer and …
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The seven presentation design habits of great presenters
After years of sitting through way too many banal, sleep-inducing PowerPoint presentations, I finally could not take it …
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A conversation with Elaine McMillion Sheldon about Hollow
Hollow (requires Google Chrome) is an interactive documentary and community participatory project that examines the …
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Is Final Cut Pro X finally ready to be viable replacement for Final Cut Pro Classic?
This post is a follow-up to the "Final Cut Pro X for Final Cut Pro 7 Editors" workshop I did at Boston Neighborhood …
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 …
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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 …
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