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Directing the documentary

Michael Rabiger

1987316 pagesabout 5–7 hours
1987
first published
  • 1987Focal Press · 316 pages · ENGISBN 9780240517940
  • 1992Focal Press · 382 pages · ENGISBN 9780240801261
  • 1998Focal Press · 430 pages · ENGISBN 9780240802701
  • 2004Focal Press · 627 pages · ENGISBN 9780240806082

Michael Rabiger's Directing the Documentary is the established guidebook to the process of making a documentary work for the screen. This includes the real problems of researching and focusing a documentary film or video idea, developing a crew, directing the crew and participants, and maintaining control during shooting. Rabiger also leads the reader through the complex evolutionary process of postproduction, where the film's true characteristics can really begin to emerge and assert themselves.

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