Practical: Documentary and Film Making

Paper Code: 
JMC 325(A)
Credits: 
6
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course will enable the students to -

  • Create script, storyboard and documentary.
  • Apply practical implication of Light and camera during shooting. 
  • Edit a film or a documentary using professional editing softwares. 

 

 

Course Outcome (COs):

Course

Learning outcome (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies 

Paper   Code

Paper Title

JMC

325(A)

Practical:  Documentary and Film Making

CO79(A): Students will be able to ideate, Research and form treatment of a Film or Documentary. CO80(A):Students will learn professional Video production process 

 CO81(A):Students will  acquire a functional knowledge of professional video shooting equipment.

CO82 (A): Students will be editing a film or a documentary using professional editing softwares.

 

Approach in teaching:

Lecture cum Discussion

Tool and writing practise.

News and event coverage using mobile and professional cameras.

Anchoring and producing TV news bulletin.

Production of television programme

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
  • Ideation, Selection of topic (Documentary/Film)
  • Treatment, Research. 
  • Budgeting
20.00
  • Scripting
  • Screenplay
  • Storyboarding. 
15.00
  • Recce, Preparing Costume, Art Direction, Shooting Schedule. 
  • Selection of Cast and Crew.
20.00
  • Light, Camera
  • Shooting, VFX
20.00
  • Editing, Graphics, Mastering of Tape
  • Promotion and Marketing 

 

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 EarlyFilms.
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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