The documentary mind: In the subject of a practitioner’s perspective on changes in documentary concept and production

This autoethnographic study examines the influences of recent digital technology upon the practice and philosophy of documentary filmmaking. To assess the impact of new digital methodology on the film production process, The Musicians, a wholly-digital, 55-minute documentary film, was produced as an example. This music-based subject was chosen to specifically demonstrate the potential advantages of lightweight digital equipment and its extended recording capacity in orchestral documentation. The capability of non-linear digital editing to process large amounts of imagery, together with its ability to manage multiple image and audio streams concurrently, was also examined. This exegesis also reviews the impact of recently-emerged digital multimedia and multi-platform formats on perceptions of the more standard linear documentary format, all of which have been incorporated into a single documentary category by some researchers. For a traditional documentary such as The Musicians to be categorised with open-ended, multimedia constructions seems somewhat anomalous.

Grantor dc:publisher

Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia

Year dc:date

2016

Author dc:creator

• Hardie, Harold Robert (Bob)

• documentary
• digital
• filmmaker
• autoethnography
• The Musicians
• linear documentary
• non-linear
• multi-camera
• production
• post-production
• Film and Media Studies

Repository record dc:identifier

https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1924

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:ro.ecu.edu.au:theses-2925