I like to show a picture of my frantic self in a sinking boat on a river somewhere in the jungles of South America, trying to bail out the boat with a soup plate. “That’s what the producer’s job is,” I say. “You have to keep the boat afloat.” Producers of documentaries, in stark contrast to their cousins in the feature film world, are frequently
One of my favorite experiences was working on a documentary about sustainable agriculture, My Father’s Garden. Four of us hard-core city people (Miranda, the director; Alex, the cameraman; Daniel, the soundman; and myself, the producer) traveled from Manhattan to middle-of-nowhere North Dakota. After driving for an hour through an utterly empty landscape without passing another car, Alex begged me to send him home.
It was
Coworking is all about community, so we're going to start profiling our coworkers on our blog!
Robin Truesdale, a video producer, photographer, and editor, first became interested in video production because of her father. "My dad was a producer, and I used to go with him to edit sessions. I was amazed by the editors, they were like magicians. Editing is so different now than
The opportunity dropped into my lap at just the perfect time! It was this past April, and I was about to leave my full-time position as a video photographer and editor and launch myself into freelance work at my new BDA office. My schedule was open, my work slate was clean, and I was looking for new opportunities when I got a phone call from
Story Consultant Fernanda Rossi answered the following question for our Blog in anticipation of the upcoming Doing Your Doc workshops May 13th-15th
All info and discount registration at:
http://www.nalip.org/nalip/NALIP-Programs-DYD.html
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Should my trailer reveal the entire narrative arc of the story (where it's headed) or focus only on the premise and characters?
The eternal dilemma of how much is too much and how little is
Story Consultant Fernanda Rossi answered the following question for our blog in anticipation of the upcoming Doing Your Documentary workshops on May 13th-15th.
All info and discount registration at:
http://www.nalip.org/nalip/NALIP-Programs-DYD.html
What’s the difference between a fundraising demo and a marketing trailer beyond the obvious purpose?
Fundraising and marketing trailers are very VERY different. At the dawn of fundraising trailer history, some 10 years ago,
Work Made for Hire . . . . the very phrase rightly strikes terror into the digital artist's heart. WMFH means that by contract the person for whom you’re creating work owns the copyright to it, even though you’re the one doing the creating.
But is there ever a time when WMFH can work for you? Yes, in the right industries and under the right
Interview with Abigail Wright of Miranda Productions.
Abigail teaches Producing the Documentary on March 29th from 6-9pm at Boulder Digital Arts.
1) Have you ever felt like making a movie was putting you in danger?
My partner Miranda was in that situation when she filmed Chico Mendes for a documentary just three weeks before he was assassinated. It was in a very remote part of
Abigail Wright has been a professional filmmaker, writer, producer, theatre director, and actor for twenty-five years. For the independent film company Miranda Productions, Inc., Abigail wrote and produced four environmental documentaries - The Shaman’s Apprentice, My Father's Garden, Canary of the Ocean, and Wilderness: The Last Stand - which have accumulated over eighty major awards and have been broadcast all over the world. She is
