6 Documentary Film Making Tips From a Film University

If you want to do documentaries, David Hoffman is the man you want to learn from. Hoffman has over 40 years experience making documentaries. Here are some of his most helpful tips. 1. Eliminate what doesn’t enhance the story and exagerate what does. The way Hoffman explains this is simple. When doing a piece on [...]

Understanding What the Documentary Films Really Is

Documentary films, as the name implies, are films produced with the intention of being an audio-visual documentation of a concept or event. A documentary film is intended to be much more like a piece of journalism than a piece of entertainment or expressive art. There is typically a voice-over narrative going on throughout a documentary [...]

Documentary Films in a Short Overview

A Documentary film is a great way of exploiting cinema’s potential for observing life. It is a visual expression that strives to document reality. It is also often regarded as a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception. A good short documentary film in the form of a multimedia presentation can leave [...]

Think Outside The Box? Distributing a Documentary

Ok, so television has been a mainstay in American Households since the early 50’s.  The Set’s themselves may have changed, new channel options added, and entirely new genre’s may have been created.  But, for all intensive purposes the experience had pretty much stayed the same… Just one more, spectator-driven experience.  Well, that’s slowly but sure [...]

How To Develop Your Big Idea into a Documentary Film

There are literally millions of fantastic reality TV show or documentary film ideas out there today. The odds are also great, that tomorrow a million more really good ideas will surface. I know, because I can personally account for having thought of many of todays great ideas. I also have a great deal of faith [...]

Documentary Film History

Direct Cinema is proved as influential strength along the history of documentary films. Some developments, technique innovations, and themes become highly varied. One of the most popular variations of Direct Cinema is “rockumentaries” (rock documentaries). In this case, rockumentaries have varied types and forms. For example, are Let it Be (1970) to view a legendary [...]

How To Package Your Concept For a Reality TV Show or Documentary Film

These five steps will help you set out on the path towards developing your own reality TV show or documentary film with a professional, well thought out concept and a solid 30 second pitch. 1. THE HOMEWORK: The first step in developing your reality TV show or documentary film is research.  As you begin flushing [...]

3d animation, motion graphics and CGI for documentary films

Animation and CGI in Documentary filmsThings have come a long way since “Walking with Dinosaurs”. 3d animation, motion graphics, CGI and visual effects are now a regular part of many documentary films. As well as historical reconstructions and informational motion graphics, computer animation and CGI is now routinely used in almost any situation where shot [...]

Arts/Film making: The Best College For Documentary Film

Are you interested in making ‘Documentaries’ which reflect the true image of society and our surroundings? It is a good idea to pursue a career as documentary film maker. But with increasing competition, you simply cannot shoot and show your film. Today documentaries too require special skill in handling camera, digital world and other features [...]

Presenting? Your Reality TV Show or Documentary Film Concept!

Ok, so you’ve poured yourself over the monthly and weekly periodicals at your local newsstand.  After careful research, you know exactly what your audience usually reads. You’ve spotted at least a half dozen ADS in those magazines and identified your first brand targets.  The prospective brands match your concept for a reality TV show or [...]