Documentary Filmmaking

Course Description:

This five-day introductory course to documentary filmmaking places the emphasis on, 'where fiction ends and documentary begins'. The course will start with a discussion about film, using film clips as illustrations of the various approaches to filmmaking. A series of workshops will follow focusing on HDV cameras; getting the best filmic look from video; how to shoot for the edit and sound and its importance.

Three groups of three will go out and film either an event or a process that is going on in the locality. The footage will be ingested onto Final Cut Pro, the basics of the editing programme will be explained and a short editing script will be drawn up, with special attention to sound and music.

Workshops will be run on how to use FCP to cut a film. Time will be spent putting a scene together from the footage, with music, sound and titles. Video formats will be explained, as will making a DVD and putting a film onto tape.

A screening of the final films will occur on the last night of the summer school to all the other students.

 

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