Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The creative documentary. What is creativity? / Wilma de Jong -- The creative documentary / Wilma de Jong -- The creative industries and documentary / Wilma de Jong -- Passionate business: entrepreneurship and the documentary filmmaker / Wilma de Jong -- Development strategies. Developing ideas / Jerry Rothwell -- From idea to pitch / Jerry Rothwell -- Budgets and schedules / Jerry Rothwell -- Narrative strategies. The nature of stories and narratives / Erik Knudsen -- Life does not tell stories: structuring devices in documentary filmmaking / Wilma de Jong -- The classic narrative / Erik Knudsen -- The transcendental narrative / Erik Knudsen -- Cinematic codes / Erik Knudsen -- New media, new documentary forms / Mary Agnes Krell -- Production strategies. A good waltz or a nasty tango: individual qualities of 'total' filmmaker and teamwork / Wilma de Jong -- Producing / Jerry Rothwell -- Directing / Erik Knudsen -- Camera and cinematography / Erik Knudsen -- Interview strategies / Jerry Rothwell -- The uses and abuses of archive footage / Toby Haggith -- Zen and the art of documentary editing / Wilma de Jong -- Being there: the creative use of location and post-production sound in documentaries / Jean Martin -- Distribution strategies. Online, portable and convergence environments / Erik Knudsen -- Delivery and compliance / Jerry Rothwell.