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Documentary Production
184 | CCN: 32173 | 32174
Andrea Bussman
4 Units
*This course will be taught via Remote-Synchronous instruction
Lecture: W 9am-12pm; Lab: W 12pm-3pm
Documentary film production is a semester long production course that will guide students through the process of making their own non-fiction films. We will emphasize the history, contemporary themes, formal strategies, and critical discourse around non-fiction filmmaking to probe the impulse to engage the “real”. Topics in this course will include portraits, interviews, ethnography, space and place, narrativity, personal film, re-enactments and performance. The class is composed of one six-hour long session weekly. Class time will be used for a variety of purposes, including watching and examining seminal works, technical workshops, in class assignments-including recording and editing images, and assisting other students with their projects through constructive feedback sessions. In addition to scheduled class time, students will be assigned a series of production assignments to be completed outside of class. Prerequisites: No production experience needed. Consent of the instructor is required for enrollment. The class is open to juniors and seniors. Preference is given to Film & Media majors. Interested students should be prepared to attend the first class and answer a series of questions emailed out prior to it.