Documentary and Film Making

Paper Code: 
JMC 324(A)
Credits: 
6
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course will enable the students to -

  • Discuss the concepts and modes of documentary.
  • Evaluate the various film forms and styles.
  • Analyse the process of three phases of production.

 

 

Course Outcome (COs):

 

Course

Learning outcome (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies 

Paper   Code

Paper Title

JMC

324(A)

Documentary and Film Making

 

CO75(A): Students will have know how of film making.

CO76(A):   Students will learn about various film forms and styles.

CO77(A): Students will learn about three stages of production.

CO78 (A):Students will have an understanding of shooting and editing styles.

 

Approach in teaching:

Lecture cum Discussion

Tool and script writing practise.

Using mobile and professional cameras.

producing films –documentary and fiction 

Video editing practice.

Learning activities for the students

Self learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks, Field practical

 

Continuous Assessment Test

Semester end examination 

Group projects on developing television documentary, features and special stories.

 

15.00
  • Documentary- Six Modes of Documentary Representation- Participatory, Expository, Observational, Performative, Reflexive, and Poetic,
  • Researching the Documentary
20.00
  • Film Form and Style
  • German Expressionism and Film Noir
  • Italian Neorealism
  • French New-Wave
  • Genre and the development of Classical Hollywood Cinema
  • Watching Relevant films
20.00
  • Alternative Visions; Third Cinema and Non Fiction Cinema
  • Introduction to Feminist Film Theory
  • Auteur- Film Authorship with a special focus on Satyajit Ray or Kurusawa
  • Watching relevant films
20.00
  • Three Phases of Production
  • Structure and scripting the documentary
  • Writing a concept- Telling a story Treatment. 
  • Production Phase
  • Understanding use of microphones
  • Sound Recording- Voice Over.  
  • Introduction to Shooting style- Shooting Schedule
  • Shot Breakdown and Call list
15.00
  • Editing styles
  • Post Production Phase- Grammar of editing
  • Rough Cut
  • Transitions: Scenic Realism and Sound Effects and Visual Effects
  • Finalizing the film
  • Graphics and Title adding
  • Distribution and Exhibition Spaces (Traditional and Online)
Essential Readings: 
  • Andre Bazin, “The Ontology of the Photographic Image” from his book What is Cinema Vol.I
  • Berekeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press: 1967, 9-16
  • Sergei Eisenstein, “A Dialectic Approach to Film Form” from his book Film Form: Essays inFilm
  • Theory (Edited and Translated by Jay Leyda) San Diego, New York, London: A Harvest/Harcourt
  • Brace Jovanovich, Publishers: 1977, 45-63
  • Tom Gunning, "Non-continuity, Continuity, Discontinuity: A theory of Genres in Early Films
References: 
  • Charles Musser “Documentary” in Geoffrey Nowell Smith ed, The Oxford History of WorldCinema Oxford University Press: 1996, 322-333
  • Michael Renov ed. Theorizing Documentary AFI Film Readers, New York and London:Routledge: 1993, 1-36
  • Trisha Das How to Write a Documentary
  • Double Take by PSBT
  • DOX magazine
  • Nichols, Bill (2001): Introduction to Documentary, Indiana University Press: Bloomington.

E Resources 

Reference Journals

  • Media Watch
  • The Indian Journal of Mass Communication and Journalism
  • Journal of Media and Communication
  • Amity Journal of Media and Communication Studies
  • International Journal of Communication
  • Critical Studies in Media Communication
Academic Year: 
2023-2024
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