I share with Ed Wood a fondness for stock footage. There, I hope, the similarities end.
“The preservers of history are as heroic as its makers.” Pat Morris Neff, former president of Baylor University and two-term governor of Texas. I first heard this quote when we interviewed Robert Darden in Chicago. Here’s how Robert used it. … Continued
Last week in How to Conduct an Interview Part 1, I dealt with preparation. This post features some pointers once you are sitting across from the interviewee with your questions in hand. Ready? Go! (Note: Make sure to read this … Continued
So, You Want to Conduct an On-Camera Interview… I don’t usually do how-tos, but a few times in the past year I’ve been approached by people who want to make a documentary and they always ask me, among other things, how … Continued
There are a bunch of original clips using footage shot for A Life’s Work on this blog. You can see a list of posts that contain clips by clicking here. If you visit the A Life’s Work Youtube Channel you can watch them without reading … Continued
I asked Robert Darden, author of Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Volume I, Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement and People Get Ready!: A New History of Black Gospel Music and founder of the Black Gospel Music Restoration … Continued
Over the years (yes, I can write that and mean it!), this blog has had some wonderful guest posts. Here’s a list of them. My Pursuit of Science Took an Ugly Turn by William Swearson (words) Bonsai and A Life’s Work … Continued
“If you lose yourself in your work, you find who you are. If you express the best you have in you in your work, it is more than just the best you have in you that you are expressing.” Frederick Buechner, … Continued
Before I shot a second of A Life’s Work, I grappled with the documentary dilemma. How do you end a film that doesn’t have an ending? (How do the Maysles end Grey Gardens? They show us a looming change of season.) I … Continued
Previously, on A Life’s Work blog In a previous post I wrote about the process of editing a clip from the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project Program section of A Life’s Work. Since I’ve been working on the subsequent section of … Continued