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		<title>Ken Burns cannot be stopped</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reuters has a quick interview with filmmaker Ken Burns, who&#8217;s at Telluride and talking about his new documentary for PBS, &#8220;Tenth Inning,&#8221; a sequel to his nine-part series &#8220;Baseball.&#8221; What is mindblowing is at the end of the interview when he&#8217;s asked what he&#8217;s working on now:
We&#8217;re in post-production on a three-part,  six-hour history [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://documentarytech.com/?p=6136</link>
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		<title>Taking a structural view of &#8216;A Film Unfinished&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Slant Magazine&#8217;s Tom Stempel has a piece on &#8220;Understanding Screenwriting&#8221; that takes a close look at the structure of Yael Hersonski&#8217;s &#8220;A Film Unfinished.&#8221; He sets it up this way:
The problem facing Yael Hersonski was this. She had a rough cut, without a soundtrack, of a Nazi documentary called The Ghetto.  It had been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://documentarytech.com/?p=6131</link>
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		<title>The early scoop on Final Cut Studio 4 suggests major changes&#8230; maybe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MacSoda has a post on the impending Final Cut Studio 4, apparently to be released in January 2011. After what has been referred to as &#8220;minor change&#8221; in the last iteration of Final Cut, this one promises more.
The major feature of the new Final Cut Studio, and the reason the  upgrade is taking so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://documentarytech.com/?p=6127</link>
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		<title>Thinking about how to find your documentary&#8217;s audiences, Part I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, in a post in MicroFilmmaker, the distribution guru Peter Broderick noted that “micro-budget filmmakers need to think, instead, about micro audiences and to think of the Internet as a collection of audiences.” While he was talking about all kinds of films, it has seemed to me that this statement is especially true of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://documentarytech.com/?p=6110</link>
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		<title>Is shallow depth of field getting used to death?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What was once the Holy Grail, the shallow depth-of-field look that distinguished the &#8220;35 film look&#8221; from video, getting so overused that it will become passe?
Here&#8217;s a rant this week on APhotoEditor, which in turn reposts a piece from 2009 by Mike Jones:
Shallow focus and Rack-Focus is lazy. A ham-fisted and overtly slothful  technique [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://documentarytech.com/?p=6097</link>
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		<title>DSLRs meet BBC broadcast standards (but only kind of), and the upshot of that</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is kind of like the joke where the man says to the doctor, &#8220;Doc, it hurts when I do this, what would you suggest?&#8221; and the doctor says, &#8220;Don&#8217;t do that.&#8221;
The BBC has exacting standards about the quality of footage it will broadcast, for good reason, but their technical demands also has created a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://documentarytech.com/?p=6085</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Cyclocross,&#8217; by Ken Bloomer</title>
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CYCLOCROSS by Ken Bloomer from e r t z u i ° film on Vimeo.
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		<link>http://documentarytech.com/?p=6083</link>
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		<title>Peter Broderick on hybrid distribution: Micro budgets and micro audiences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Peter Broderick has been one of the leading voices in the new approach to distribution, and in Micofilmmaker Magazine he breaks down the approach on how filmmakers with limited resources or a more narrow topic can find small but profitable audiences through &#8220;hybrid distribution.&#8221;
The piece, by Tony Levelle, really details Broderick&#8217;s notion of separating rights [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://documentarytech.com/?p=6080</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Freakonomics&#8217; will have iTunes release before theatrical &#8211; a truly Freakonomic decision</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another sign of the changing landscape in documentary film, and film distribution in general, is that &#8220;Freakonomics,&#8221; the doc from a best-selling book and using an all-star team of directors, is releasing Friday on iTunes, a month before it hits theaters.
TechDirt reports that our friend Sheri Candler spotted this on the trailer. Techdirt also notes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://documentarytech.com/?p=6077</link>
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		<title>Testing the 5D&#8217;s dynamic range, and assessing the 60D</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For technical geeks, the debate rages about the video quality of DSLRs. What seemed gained in sharpness and low-light performance seemed lost in such negative effects as shutter Jell-O, moire and aliasing.
But ProVideo Coalition has done a more definitive test on the Canon EOS 5D Mk II&#8217;s dynamic range, the ability to find detail over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://documentarytech.com/?p=6063</link>
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