Overall goal:
1. Understand the current context of documentary filmmaking by studying the history of this documentary genre, its various forms, and the current market.
2. Be able to efficiently operate a digital camera, record sound, light and edit a scene.
3. Learn how to research a topic, write a proposal, and create a treatment.
4. Be able to consider production issues such as scheduling, site management and legal requirements.
Course topics
1. Introduction to documentary film making
2. Writing proposals
3. Documentary film development involves: researching the “story”, producing and visualizing, writing the script, defining your audience and finding your key team.
4. Budget: Taking into account crew size, camera format, sound settings, shooting duration, and post-production
5. Production: from viewing and recording footage to producing a final film ready for distribution
6. Major paperwork and form documents including: remedies, release forms, schedules and permissions
7. Post-production: Case studies are used to explain different production strategies
8. Display, distribution and broadcast strategies
9. Research and guidance
10. Camera and lighting
11. Location audio
12. Directing the documentary film
13. Writing a script for a documentary
Target groups
• Trained photographers, with 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 communicate effectively with their audiences using visual stories.
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