Practical : Documentary Production

Paper Code: 
GJMC 401
Credits: 
6
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

This course will enable the students to produce a documentary on any topic of relevance. It will also acquaint the students with the process of documentary production.

 

15.00
Unit I: 
I

Understanding the Documentary, Introduction to Realism Debate

Six Modes of Documentary Representation- Participatory, Expository, Observational, Performative, Reflexive, and Poetic;

Introduction to Shooting styles

Introduction to Editing styles, Structure and scripting the documentary

 

 

15.00
Unit II: 
II

Documentary Production, Pre-Production, Researching the Documentary

Research: Library, Archives, location, life stories, ethnography,

Writing a concept- Telling a story, Treatment, Writing a proposal and budgeting.

20.00
Unit III: 
III

Production Phase- Planning and Managing crew, Lighting- Natural and Artificial,

Understanding use of microphones, Sound Recording, Voice Over.

15.00
Unit IV: 
IV

Shooting Schedule, Shot Breakdown, & Call list, Production Team, Meetings, Checklist; Crowd Management.

25.00
Unit V: 
V

Post Production Phase- Grammar of editing

Rough Cut, Transitions: Scenic Realism & Sound Effects and Visual Effects

Finalising the film, Graphics and Title adding.

Distribution and Exhibition Spaces (Traditional and Online)

Essential Readings: 
  1. Charles Musser “Documentary” in Geoffrey Nowell Smith edThe Oxford History of World

Cinema Oxford University Press: 1996, 322-333

  1. Michael Renov “The Truth about Non Fiction” and “Towards a Poetics of Documentary” in

Michael Renov ed. Theorizing Documentary AFI Film Readers, New York and London:

Routledge: 1993, 1-36

  1. Trisha Das How to Write a Documentary
  2. Double Take by PSBT
  3. DOX magazine
  4. Nichols, Bill (2001) Introduction to Documentary, Indiana University Press: Bloomington.
Academic Year: 
2016-2017
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