Interviews, documentary

The main phase of interviews was followed up in the mid-1990s with further interviews with members of the Railway Inspectorate and Railtrack. These findings are reported in Chapter 11. In addition to the interviews, documentary sources were consulted. These included official publications and internal company documents. Further details of the data collection can be found in the Appendices. 

In addition to the interviews, documentary sources were also consulted. For example, corporate safety policies, rule books, and training materials were examined and where possible I was given access to statistical data such as they were. But the main source of data remained the interview transcripts which provided such a rich source of information and a testament to the time and honesty accorded to the research by BR and most importantly by its staff and also the unions. 

Always the optimist, I did not allow myself to dwell on shortfalls. In 1990, I received another phone call, this time from Washington, DC. The caller asked whether I would take part in a TV interview. As usual, I was ready to cooperate. He told me that Michael Bilton, producer of a British monthly documentary program called First Thursday, was planning to make an hour-long special about the Edgewood Arsenal research and he wanted my views represented. He might come to Woodland Hills from England to discuss it with me. 

For his documentary movie Mr. Death on Fredrick A. Leuchter, Errol Morris also interviewed Prof. Dr. James Roth. In 1988, Roth s... 

Videos Documentary movies about the topics, showing interviews with the scientists and footage from their laboratories... 

The video section consists of DVD-format documentary-style videos. For each module, there are interviews with the principal investigator and with associated researchers discussing the context and purpose of their work. Laboratory procedures and equipment are demonstrated... 

Examine newspaper or magazine articles and interview people to create a documentary showing the various sides of an issue. 

It is in the documentary film-maker s futile attempts to interview key players that the film s adversarial stance towards Shakespeare is crystallised when told that the film was written by a contemporary of Shakespeare s, John Webster, Hayek s character asks to interview Webster. The target of the joke is not the interviewer s ignorance as much as the Shakespeare industry s erasure of Shakespeare s historical specificity. Instead of taking its inspiration from the Shakespeare industry or from heritage films (Merchant-Ivory productions are explicitly attacked in the film). Hotel draws its roots from Jarman. Jarman s Tempest is alluded to in the casting of Heathcote Williams (Jarman s Prospero), who plays both the scriptwriter-within-the-film and Bosola, the spy who embodies the normative order and surveillance that lead to the death of the Duchess (see Fig- 4)-... 

For filmmakers, this book focuses primarily on longer-form work, but the principles of documentary storytelling can and do apply in a range of forms and formats. I have applied the story and structure tools contained in this book to six-minute historical documentaries, eight-minute natural history films, and even 90-second audio presentations. Brett Culp, interviewed in Chapter 18, applies these tools as an event filmmaker, crafting stories from key moments in his clients lives. 

Another noted example is British filmmaker Michael Apted s Up series. In the 1960s, Apted worked on Seven Up , a documentary in which 14 seven-year-olds of various economic backgrounds were interviewed about their lives and hopes for the future. Apted, who is... 

What follows is a very simple version of an outline for a straightforward documentary, entirely invented for the purpose of illustration. The film is called Zach Gets a Baby Sister. The outline presumes that because this event was very contained, shooting was under way (the verite scenes were filmed, but not many of the interviews) before the outline was written. 

Narration or voice-over, if done well, can be one of the best and most efficient ways to move your story along, not because it tells the story but because it draws the audience into and through it. Narration provides information that s not otherwise available but is essential if audiences are to fully experience your film. When documentary makers dive into fairly complicated historical policy or legal and legislative issues," notes filmmaker Jon Else, "narration is your friend. It may mean that you have only two or three lines of narration in a film, but something that might take 10 minutes of tortured interview or tortured verite footage can be often disposed of better in 15 seconds of a well-written line of narration."... 

Discussed here are two of their feature documentaries. Troublesome Creek A Midwestern, about the Jordan family s struggle to save their Iowa farm, won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 1996 and was nominated for an Academy Award. So Much So Fast, which premiered at Sundance in 2006, is about the events set in motion when Stephen Heywood was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig s disease). I spoke with the filmmakers separately for this interview, conducted in 2003 and updated since. 

Is that why you avoided some "traditional" documentary elements, such as interviews ... 

A new documentary. Casino Jack and the United States of Money, premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. At the time of this interview, in March 2010, the film had not yet been released. Alex himself was in a taxi, en route to catch a plane from New York to Los Angeles. 

With such a wealth of material to choose from—60 years of Hollywood moviemaking plus all the documentary material and interviews—how did you decide what to leave out ... 

Sam is a professor at New York Hniversit/s Tisch School of the Arts, where he teaches Fundamentals of Sight and Sound Documentary, a sophomore course Advanced Video Editing and History of Editing. This interview was conducted in 2003 and 2006, while Sam was editing Levees. 

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