Create Documentary Films, Videos, and Multimedia: A Comprehensive Guide to Using Documentary Storytelling Techniques for Film, Video, the Internet and Digital Media Projects

Create Documentary Films, Videos, and Multimedia examines all aspects of documentary and nonfiction filmmaking including genres, story development, concept, treatment, shooting script, preproduction, production, editing script, postproduction, and distribution. The book explores different types of documentary productions, such as theatrical, social, educational, event, advocacy, historical, television, corporate, and more. Productions are discussed step by step in practical case studies from actual documentary projects. The book demonstrates how to use documentary storytelling techniques, concepts, and structures in different forms of media including presentation, websites, video shorts, and other digital projects.

Jim Martin is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with forty years of industry experience. Professor Martin has also taught all aspects of film and video production for twenty years at Columbia College in Chicago and currently as director of the Documentary Filmmaking Course at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida. Documentaries nationally broadcast on PBS written, directed, and produced by James R. Martin include Wrapped in Steel, Emmy Nomination, Golden Plaque Best Network Documentary, Chicago Film Festival and Fired-Up! Public Housing Is My Home--Emmy, Best Independent Network Documentary Chicago.