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  • Introduction
  • Introduction
    • Introduction
  • Paper-editing
    • Documentary Production Overview
    • Key concepts in documentary theory
    • Why paper-editing?
    • Paper-editing overview
  • Story concepts
    • Paper-editing and story concepts
    • Terminology
    • levels of conflict
    • The Gap
    • The Quest
    • Three act structure
    • Exposition
    • ladder of abstraction in paper-editing
    • Annotated bibliography
  • Two Column Script
    • Two Column Script
  • Digital Paper-editing
    • autoEdit 2 digital paper-editing software
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  • Michael Tierno , Artistotele's Poetics for screenwriters
  • Robert McKee Story book
  • Jack Hart, Story Craft
  • Rabinger, developing story ideas
  • Sheila Curran Bernard, Documentary storytelling
  • This American life How to Make Radio Comic Book
  • NFBC Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary
  • Peter Wintonick, Cinéma vérité: Defining the Moment (National Film Board, 1999).
  • McKee book on Dialogue
  • Writing, Directing and Producing Documentary Films and Videos.
  1. Story concepts

Annotated bibliography

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Some sources and resources to explore this further.

Click on the book covers to be taken to the good reads profile and learn more about each.

Michael Tierno , Artistotele's Poetics for screenwriters

I recommend to read Tierno before reading McKee. For a more gentle introduction, and to better understand McKee.

However there ideas from Aristotele that McKee revisits and takes further such as that of the action idea which is later referred to as inciting incident. These have settle differences that nonetheless become significant when used in the story crafting context.

Robert McKee Story book

  • The book goes hand in hand with his

Jack Hart, Story Craft

Howe McCkee's concepts apply to factual stories.

Rabinger, developing story ideas

Relevant to the idea generation stage of the production process, explore a few techniques for coming up and shaping ideas, covers both fiction and documentary.

Sheila Curran Bernard, Documentary storytelling

Illustrated comic exploring the radio production process at This American Life.

NFBC Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary

Doc film by National Film Board of Canada, interviewing established documentary film-makers about their craft.

Peter Wintonick, Cinéma vérité: Defining the Moment (National Film Board, 1999).

Another production by the NFBC, exploring early pioneers of Cinema Verite.

McKee book on Dialogue

Writing, Directing and Producing Documentary Films and Videos.

To learn about pitching and treatment writing.

This american life radio
cover

-requires flash

- payed

Available as

Cinéma vérité dvd cover

- payed

To learn about dialogue in fiction, and think about this can be used in paper-editing, at the stage where we add the text selections to the story,.

book review
story seminar
This American life How to Make Radio Comic Book
e-store ebook
This american Life: about us/how to make radio
Interactive archive of interviews with film-makers
Trailer & Film download
pdf resources
Trailer & Download link
as explored in previous section on paper-edit and story concepts