Documentary Production by Peter Hamilton. Peter’s expertise is documentary production, documentary budgets, documentary funding & how to make a documentary.
For our Real Screen 2011 panel, we gave AETN’s Don Robert 5 minutes to nail the question of the day: What are the common elements that go into making an unscripted cable hit? by Don Robert Senior Vice President of Research, AETN We looked at some of the top unscripted series on cable in 2010 and came …
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By David Kaplan David Kaplan led the Quality Control team for A&E Television Networks for the last eight years. He has worked with “hundreds of producers on thousands of hours of programs in dozens of evolving formats.” In the 3rd of a 3-part post, David continues his expert commentary on: Leading tape and audio formats Dealing with a variety of archive formats …
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by David Kaplan David Kaplan has led the Quality Control team for the A&E Television Networks for the last eight years. He has worked with “hundreds of producers on thousands of hours of programs in dozens of evolving formats.” In the second of a 3-part post, David Kaplan kindly shares with DocumentaryTelevision.com his expert understanding …
by David Kaplan David Kaplan has led the Quality Control team for the A&E Television Networks for the last eight years. He has worked with “hundreds of producers on thousands of hours of programs in dozens of evolving formats.” In the second of a 3-part post, David Kaplan kindly shares with DocumentaryTelevision.com his expert understanding …
by David Kaplan Producers and channels everywhere struggle with evolving definitions of ‘Network Deliverables’. It’s a fast-changing field due to: The rapid adoption of HD and file-based shooting The take-up of digital exploitation technologies And the steady expansion of the classic definition of ‘Deliverables’ David Kaplan has led the Quality Control team for the A&E …
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This Week’s Issues: Memo to Talent: Re Compensation — Build a self-branded enterprise. Don’t rely on appearance fees. Dirty Jobs‘ Mike Rowe is the model to follow! “Speed to Air” matters! Work-for-hire versus retaining Rights. Renewals and bumps. How to pitch – and how to blow a pitch – to History. The Panelists Late last …
NEH Bridging Cultures Through Film Grants Awarded By Michael Rose The first round of documentary filmmaker recipients of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) new Bridging Cultures through Film initiative were announced today. “They were made, for a total of $1,116,715– three for development, and two for production of documentary films,” said …
PIN-POINTING THE GREEN LIGHTS Where can you find the suppliers to U.S. Factual networks? New York? LA? London? Are there other centers of development and production? Are there different sourcing practices amongst: Established channels and digi-nets? Documentary and Reality channels? These questions matter: For networks: Where should you locate LBA, Development and other resources? For producers: …