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Robert Drew: Unplanned, Unrehearsed

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Robert Drew is a filmmaker and journalist that helped with the invention of hand handled portable cameras. Drew’s genre was cinema verite, which is also called direct cinema. Direct cinema has no scripts, and is an unplanned, unrehearsed production. Drew’s contribution to his genre was the portable camera, and the way television documentaries are produced. He also contributed to the production of reality television, making it easier to produce work with portable cameras. Portable cameras allow more flexibility when recording. Robert Drew worked with Albert Maysles, D.A. Pennebaker, and Richard Leacock on a documentary titled
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