Overall goal:
Enable participants to efficiently operate a digital camera, record sound, light and edit a scene, as well as consider production issues such as scheduling, location management and legal requirements.
Course topics:
- Introduction to documentary filmmaking
- Writing proposals
- Documentary film development involves: researching the 'story', producing and visualizing, writing the script, defining your audience and finding your key team.
- Budget: Taking into account crew size, camera format, sound settings, shooting duration, and post-production
- Production: from viewing and recording footage to producing a final film ready for distribution
- Key paperwork and sample documents including: remedies, release forms, schedules and permissions
- Post-production: Case studies are used to explain different production strategies
- Display, distribution and broadcast strategies
- Camera and lighting
- Directing the documentary
- Writing a script for a documentary
Target groups:
- Trained photographers, they have the ambition to expand their skill set from producing still images to producing short documentaries
- Journalists and other communications professionals working in media outlets, organizations or NGOs who want to effectively communicate with their audiences using visual stories.
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