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Documentary

PEDAGOGICAL STATEMENT

SYLLABUS:

Doc Producing-Directing 201

RESOURCES:

The Exposure Triangle

Proposal/budget templates

Doc Proposal Examples

EOS T5I Camera Manual

Camera Control One-Sheet

Handy H5 manual

Canon EOS C100 Manual

Ninja-Blade-User-Manual (external monitor)

Canon EOS 60D Manual

Camera Control C100

Composition Handout

Lighting Terminology

FILM/VIDEO GLOSSARY

DSLR_Cinematography_Guide

Tascam DR 680 Manual

Doc Project Proposal (chix&egg)

Participant Release Form

READINGS:

Elements of Cinema (Andrei Tarkovsky)

Letter to Errol Morris, from Bill Nichols

Human-Ethics-Screening-Questionnaire-2016

human_ethics_handbook Human-Ethics-Screening-Questionnaire-2016

Why are ethical issues central to documentary filmmaking? By Bill Nichols

Image and Reality

Reading 1 Discussion Questions

Elements of Film Making

FILM, FORM & CULTURE (ch.2&4)

Directing the Documentary: The Interview

Introduction To Documentary

New Nonfiction Cinema: Art, Poetics and Documentary Theory

LECTURES:

History of Documentary

The Voice of Documentary Part 1

The Voice of Documentary Part 2

Voiceover Narration

Basic Doc Prop Writing

Dramatic Development, Time and Story Structure

PROJECTS:

Cinematic Portrait


2015