Resources
FAST FORWARD REFERENCE FILES
Prescreening Checklist - Includes what you need to write in your end credits!
FCP Scratch Disk Settings
Technical/Professional
Using DVD Studio Pro
Designing for Sound- by Randy Thom (It's Not All Special Effects!)
Professional-Sound-for-Camcorders (B&H Photo Video)
Lighting for Interviews (B&H Photo Video)
Stash Media - Welcome to the world's largest online archive of animation and VFX
Motionographer - Motionographer (pronounced like “oceanographer”) - inspiration for filmmakers, animators and designers
Green Screen (B&H Photo Video)
Mic FAQ/Transom
Recording Audio for Video
Audio Post Production
5 Modes of Documentary (word doc)
Film Stock and Processing
Toast 9 Compression Settings - Vixia200 to FCP 5
Treatments/Synopsis
Treatment and Synopsis Description
Narrative sample
Narrative sample #2
Documentary sample
Documentary sample #2
Interviewing and Reporting
The Basics by Jay Allison/Transom
Guide to Recording Stories
Alex Chadwick's 50 cents' interviews
Anne Hull's "Reporting for Story" (Word doc)
Make Your Own Radio Diary (Radio Diaries/Joe Richman
Sound
Walter Murch manifesto on sound design
AFTER EFFECTS
Hollywood Camera Work - Downloads - Free HD Green Screen Plates and Footage to experiment with
Explosions: DETONATION FILMS FREE STUFF
Video Art
Online Video Art Archive
Michael Snow- Wavelength- 1967
Other Resources
Interview with Errol Morris
Guide to Peer Feedback (pdf)
Help Getting Started on what you want to say
50 best Documentaries of All Time
Artist Statement Sample
Fair Use
Generation PRX
Sample Artist Bios