Research and Writing for Documentary I

Catalog description

The first of a two-course sequence in conceptualizing, researching, writing and presenting an idea for a documentary film or video. Workshops focus on representational models, documentary and mass culture, testing the viability of the initial impulse, research strategies, crafting the idea into visual story, legal and ethical issues in documentary, and the filmic techniques available to the documentarian. Classes are augmented by a rigorous screening schedule of seminal documentaries.