SCREEN 300
Documentary Video Making
Please note: this is archived course information from 2019 for SCREEN 300.
Description
Instead of crafting scenarios and characters wholly produced by their imagination, documentary filmmakers tell stories by looking to the world around them. This course teaches students how to make short documentaries. It encourages them to tell stories based in and of the world they inhabit rather than the one they conjure.
Over the course of the semester students will make a short documentary film project. This project is designed to help develop a range of skills that are fundamental to the craft of non-fiction filmmaking. Some of these skills include how to recognise and construct narrative, how to tell a story visually, how to respond nimbly and creatively to events unfolding in real time and how to negotiate with people. Basic technical proficiency with respect to cinematography, sound and editing is expected but some class time will be spent on technical instruction.
This course is project based and some of the work will rely on collaboration and take place in groups. The course aims to develop creative and technical skills by "doing" which means practising filmmaking consistently over the course of the semester.
Provisional class limits information for 2019: Enrolment is limited to 20 students. Students must have successfully completed both SCREEN 200 and 201.
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Availability 2019
Semester 2
Lecturer(s)
Coordinator(s) Associate Professor Sarina Pearson
Points
SCREEN 300: 15 points
Prerequisites
SCREEN 200, 201 and approval of Academic Head or nominee
Restrictions
FTVMS 301
