June 2023
Intermediate to advanced
266 pages
7h 45m
English
What are the rules for editing short documentaries? It may be disappointing to hear, but there is simply too much heterogeneity in the genre to offer precise prescriptive templates. A peek around some of the major US-based outlets for short films—Short of the Week, NY Times Op-Docs, Field of Vision, New Yorker Documentary, Vimeo Staff Picks, Beyond The Short—yields a strikingly diverse set of films. There are at least as many ways of telling stories in short documentaries as there are in feature documentaries.
However, one important difference sets short documentaries apart: they address topics that would not be sustainable in feature-length form because they wouldn’t contain enough ...
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