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Documentary Seminars – Sale Ends Today!
December 2, 2024
Today is the final day to get our popular seminars for sale. I’m offering a three-for-one sale on my popular documentary seminars. Buy The Ultimate Guide to Structuring Your Documentary for $50 (normally $297.) You’ll also receive for free 1) Editing the Character-Driven Documentary here (valued at $79.97) and 2) my recent tutorial on “How to Log Quickly”. Click here to buy all three for $50: Buy The Ultimate Guide to Structuring Your Documentary
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Documentary Seminars – Ending Soon
November 30, 2024
Our sale on documentary seminars end today. These seminars come with a 100% money-back guarantee. Buy The Ultimate Guide to Structuring Your Documentary for $50 (normally $297.) You’ll also receive for free 1) Editing the Character-Driven Documentary here (valued at $79.97) and 2) my recent tutorial on “How to Log Quickly”. Click here to buy all three for $50:Buy The Ultimate Guide to Structuring Your Documentary
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Documentary Seminars – Black Friday Sale
November 28, 2024
To celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day in the U.S., I’m offering a three-for-one sale on my popular documentary seminars. Buy The Ultimate Guide to Structuring Your Documentary for $50 (normally $297.) You’ll also receive for free 1) Editing the Character-Driven Documentary here (valued at $79.97) and 2) my recent tutorial on “How to Log Quickly”. Here’s what one Emmy-Award-winning director had to say about Editing the Character-Driven Documentary: “This class was invaluable for bringing into crystal clear focus how to bring a 3-act structure to a documentary film. Karen is inspiring and the documentary clips she screens are extrememly useful.” -Paige Bierma,…
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Editing Sports, Pageant and Performance Docs
September 24, 2024
I have an editor available soon who excels in cutting documentaries about sports, concerts, and other dynamic performative feats. What’s so unique about this style of editing? Adeptly cut, fast-paced sequences bring viewers into visceral, cinematic performances. Picking the right music for a scene is critical, whether it’s a strip performance with a seductive sound, a wheelchair basketball game with hip hop beats, or a long take of a champion surfer atop a score that soars. Most importantly, editorial chops can reveal the fascinating human interest behind the spectacle: character. That includes picking the right interview soundbites, verite moments, and…
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John Cooper & Best Practices for AI in Docs
September 18, 2024
I recently wrote about an AI discussion moderated by former Sundance Director John Cooper that you can read here: Will Documentaries (And Their Makers) Survive AI During the dynamic Q&A, Jean McGlothlin, former co-director of the prestigious Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, spoke on the importance of “preserving what is real”. Specifically referring to documentary films, she continued, “I’m all for using new tools, but my overriding concern is that there is a huge societal loss if things are not real.” I followed up with a similar question that has been on the mind of several of my story consulting clients.…
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Will Documentaries (And Their Makers) Survive AI?
September 9, 2024
Recently I attended a spirited discussion in Sebastopol CA, titled Will Film Survive AI? Former Sundance Director John Cooper began by telling filmmaker and AI thought leader Quinn Halleck, “You’ve got some explaining to do!” The BackstoryI confess. For many years I hoped that I would be retired by the time AI might make my work as a story consultant and editor obsolete. Then came the simmering debate last summer (2023) when Hollywood creatives feared losing their livelihood. The unions went to bat over AI usurping and profiting from creatives’ work. As filmmaker Kaitlyn Nyugen asks in a KQED spot,…
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Webinar Recording: Make Multiple Fundraising Cuts Of Your Doc
September 5, 2024
Last month’s webinar on Editing for Fundraising is available here on the Show&Tell website. As you listen to this recording, you’ll learn: How to structure multiple length fundraising reels (and why you need them) How participants workshopped a fundraising cut-in-progress What not to do!
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Story Structure Webinar Recording
July 22, 2024
Last month I did a webinar with the legendary Carole Dean about documentary story structure. You can watch the recording here: Story Structure with Karen Everett I teach from 1:10-33:35. (Excuse the abrupt ending; I had audio issues.) This is a public link for streaming so feel free to share! Here is the link mentioned in the webinar. Ultimate Guide to Structuring Your Documentary
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A Cheer in the Office
July 16, 2024
It’s time to bring the va va voom home! We loved editing this phenomenal, titillating story of the daring young woman who ignited the flames of the 1960’s sexual revolution in CAROL DODA TOPLESS AT THE CONDOR. In fact, the director said that our “creative story solutions would often cause a cheer in the office”! Adored by audiences and critics alike, with a 96% score on Rotten Tomatoes, the film is now available to Watch at Home on Amazon or Apple. Trailer is here!
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Tomorrow Final Day for our Documentary Seminar Sale
July 4, 2024
Here’s to the independent urge that resides in us all. In my experience, creativity sparks when curiosity and independence meet. Curious how a documentary seminar could improve your film? Get Editing the Character-Driven Documentary if you need help structuring a character quest. I’m offering 2 seminars (formerly for nearly $600 for $50.) Most of the testimonials at the bottom of this page were written by students who have taken these courses live. I couldn’t ask for better testimonials. If your film is more hybrid and essay style, turn to The Ultimate Guide to Transforming Your Documentary. At the bottom of…
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