Writing, Financing, & Producing Documentaries: Creating Salable Reality Video By Anne Hart, ASJA
Imprint paperback, published by iUniverse, Inc, July 2005, ISBN:0-595-36633-3, contains 404 pages of easy-to-follow, step-by-step information showing the reader how to make and sell your documentaries (or anyone else’s). Learn salalble techniques and strategies that best fit your projects from the writing, financing, production and distribution stages.
Or teach online with your PC and camcorder with videos as lesson plans. Produce all types of documentaries and videos from writing the script to planning the budgets for time and money. Learn about resources and how to negotiate for distribution.
Find hidden markets and resources. Produce videos from life stories, current events, and social issues in the news, and present your recordings as reality broadcasts, docu-drama, training, or history videos or even slide show presentations narrated by a script you learn to write yourself. Learn how to write, finance, produce, distribute, and market reality-based documentaries and/or video as well as cinematic film scripts using the best script formatting software, searching the hidden markets, and the niftiest public relations launching methods.
The book has a huge number of resources for anyone interested in documentaries or docu-dramas. Learn how to write, finance, produce, distribute, publicize, launch, and market documentaries—videos on DVD or similar formats and/or movie scripts. Use your personal computer and your camcorder linked together for editing. Learn about the best script-formatting software to use. Make time and money budgets. Learn how to get funding by fundraising. You can even teach online any type of course using your PC and camcorder to create learning materials.
You might be interested in making an informational documentary to be used for training, satellite or cable TV broadcast, Web cast online, or other educational or industrial uses such as corporate training or classroom use. Write Audio-Visual scripts and turn them into reality-based documentaries for information, travel, or education. Use the Internet’s Web to syndicate and disseminate your content in text, audio, or video formats. The author has written 80+ paperback books with information and some excerpts and/or articles listed at: http://annehart.tripod.com.
The instruction on becoming a documentarian includes instruction on how to make producing documentaries a career, business, or hobby. You can work online. Documentaries may be based on reality video, life stories, or current issues in the news or in society.
The how-to book also has information on making documentaries or instructional/training videos for the government and for other types of clients. A follow-up book published in 2007 titled, How to Video Record Your Dog by the author also contains an itemized budget for making a low-cost informational documentary.
Popular subjects for linking your personal computer to your camcorder can be anything from world or local travel, your lectures, or life issues. You can link your personal computer to the tapes in your camcorder and broadcast at home part time or whatever hours you desire. You can transfer your files to CDs and DVDs and save them or mail them out. Podcasting refers to uploaded MP3 audio files to a Web site that offers ‘podcasts’—broadcasting from a Web site online.
RSS feeds are put on Web sites that offer content syndication of your writing or ‘Blogs’ which are online publications, diaries, or sites that allow content and comment to be inserted regularly. Now anyone can publish or broadcast via the Web and/or print-on-demand publishing software. Learn how to start and run 25+ low-cost online home-based scriptwriting or video production businesses at home. Use your video scriptwriting, public relations, and documentary producing interest.
Or teach others online and/or through groups how to make better shoestring budget videos, plan and develop all types of budgets, or create documentaries, reality TV, and docu-dramas--from script or scratch to production and distribution/marketing. This book for beginners helps you to learn the first steps about what it takes to plan and make a documentary.
Browse the book at the publisher’s Web site at: http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?&isbn=0-595-36633-3 Or read the various articles and excerpts at the author’s Web site at: http://annehart.tripod.com.