Documentaries

A documentary about making documentaries, "Capturing Reality," and also "You Only Live Twice" (Second Life), both from the Documentary Channel

Documentary Channel's YouTube channel

Here is a CBC documentary on antidepressants that runs about 43 minutes.

Documentary about Food Waste in the U.S.

There is a poor quality renditon of Noam Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent" at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5631882395226827730#, but it is visually annotated.

documentaries from dailymotion.com (poor man's YouTube)

Short Documentaries

A few short documentaries may be found at http://freedocumentaries.org/index.php?ct=39.

Here is a recent documentary on crop circles, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mAdrSvOgwI, skip to approximately 12:00 in for some seemingly impressive scientific evidence of crop circle anomalies. Go to 22:45 for a crop circle that almost depicts pi, 3.14159265... At 32:00 is a crop circle purported to answer a querie we sent out in 1974.

Here is an example of a short propaganda documentary, Zeitgeist 2: All the World's a Stage [The 911 (sic) Myth]."

"Cualquiera" is a 6+ minute docudrama with English subtitles (hard to read in streaming format). Sandra and Connie, lives in the red zone of San José, Costa Rica. Others may be found at http://www.cultureunplugged.com, documentaries are kept at http://www.cultureunplugged.com/festival/genre.php?id=10.

http://www.thedocumentaryblog.com/ has documentary trailers including Bananas and Oliver Stone's South of the Border.

Here is a 5-6 minute "documentary" on how the world's media misinforms about Swine Flu.

Corporate Video Steps

http://www.rossiterandco.com/CorporateProducer/CorporateVideoProduction/intro.htm

"Rossiter & Co are one of the UK’s longest established corporate studios, with 20 years experience delivering corporate multimedia, video and web.

In this time we've won a massive 11 awards for our work, recently winning the Supplier Innovation Award."

Two Column Video Script

Although Final Draft does not allow it (you must purchase companion software called Final Draft AV), corporate video scripts are normally done in two columns as demonstrated here, http://www.internetcampus.com/dram_vd.htm.

Two-column Script Format Examples

http://www.donnapoler.com/scripts/script-mig.htm medical script, two-column format.

http://www.internetcampus.com/commerc.htm shows a 60-second commercial in two-column format.

http://www.internetcampus.com/dram_vd.htm is a dramatic film script in two-column format.

Educational Videos

http://www.thetraininggateway.com/filegrab/TheTrainingGateway.wmv?ref=74 is a nice promo for university videos.

Non-broadcast TV Production

http://www.cybercollege.com/tvp068.htm, another term for corporate video. This is nicely done, including tips for getting the message across.

http://vmatrix.com/portfolio.html Corporate Videos

http://vmatrix.com/portfolio.html examples of corporate videos.

Film Script Format

See http://www.internetcampus.com/dram_flm.htm and http://www.internetcampus.com/frtv/frtv013.htm post other examples here.