Unit name | Making Short Documentary |
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Unit code | DRAMM0001 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Mr. Milner |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
Production Technologies and Techniques in Film and Television |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of Film and Television |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit is based on making short non-fiction films for public exhibition. Teaching and learning cover:
Students will work in small teams to make short documentaries on a defined theme and within clearly set objectives, leading to an analytical screening and review prior to public exhibition and distribution.
The key element of the unit is the opportunity for students to make a short documentary. This affords the opportunity for engaging in the characteristic processes of creative work in this field, and to engage in individual and collective creative expression under appropriate guidance and within a supportive critical framework.
Students will have solid experiential awareness of key issues in the making of short documentaries, and practical skills enabling them to work at a professional level.
These will be supported by understandings of the wider context for short film, and generic issues in the making of documentaries.
Transferable skills cover research, planning, group work to deadline, and articulation and presentation of ideas in written, verbal, and audio-visual forms.
Lectures, seminars, workshops, student documentary productions, analytical review.
Evaluation of the completed film undertaken by each student (50%), and the individual contribution to it (50%). The latter is supported by a personal dossier and rationale.
Aufderheide, Patricia (2008) Documentary Film: A very short introduction (OUP USA)
Bruzzi, S. (2000). New Documentary: A Critical Introduction. London: Routledge. Documentary, London: Faber and Faber.
Cousins, M. and Macdonald, K. (1998) Imagining Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary, London: Faber and Faber.
Rabiger, Michael (2004) Directing the Documentary, Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Renov, M. (ed.) (1993) Theorising Documentary, London: Routledge.
Winston, B. (1995) Claiming the Real: The Documentary Film Revisited, London: BFI.