Eight-Week Documentary Filmmaking

Overview

The Eight-Week Documentary Filmmaking (full-time) course is ideal for students who want to bring their passion and ideas for a documentary to life and require training in technical and creative filmmaking skills. The course culminated in the production of your own short documentary film. This course is suitable for beginners, no previous experience is required.

Why Take the Course?

Eight-Week from Documentary Filmmaking is an intensive and practical course that equips students with the fundamental skills and focuses on the challenges of the documentary genre, such as working with people and filming reality. Designed to improve students understanding, knowledge and practice in the following areas:

• an understanding of the current context of documentary filmmaking based on the history of the documentary genre and its different forms
• the ability to research effectively, and to develop, structure and pitch your ideas with the potential market and audience in mind
• knowledge and skills to operate a digital camera, sound recording, light a scene and use editing software
• an appreciation of the importance of narrative and storytelling in documentary filmmaking and developing a voice as a documentary storyteller.

• What you will study

  The following list is an overview of the topics and themes covered in Eight-Week Documentary Filmmaking. For more information, please download the course outline below.

  The Factual Landscape

  Camera, lighting and sound

  Visual storytelling

  Production

  Post-Production

  Final Production