Intermediate Documentary Workshop: Sports Documentary

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Everyone watches, listens to or follows sports. Whether it’s basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track, gymnastics or any other sport that intrigues them. If you are passionate about sports and filmmaking- There's a place for you in this fast moving production class. Special access will be given to NYU sports teams and students will be eligible to present their finals at the NYU Sports Film Festival at the end of the spring semester. Live action filming, in depth interviewing and fast paced editing techniques will be taught to tell vibrant, moving stories. This exciting collaboration between UGFTV and the NYU Athletics makes for a unique environment to create stories that are waiting to be unfolded. Diverse sports and players give this class a home team and international flavor. You will complete a sports documentary of up to 15 minutes in length with special camera and sound techs to support you as you raise the bar, telling stories that unfold in real time, with real people in a competitive, dramatic and exciting environment. You will learn to think on your feet, make quick choices and put together a short documentary that gets the story out.