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Practical : Documentary Production
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.
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
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.
Production Phase- Planning and Managing crew, Lighting- Natural and Artificial,
Understanding use of microphones, Sound Recording, Voice Over.
Shooting Schedule, Shot Breakdown, & Call list, Production Team, Meetings, Checklist; Crowd Management.
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)
- Charles Musser “Documentary” in Geoffrey Nowell Smith edThe Oxford History of World Cinema Oxford University Press: 1996, 322-333
- 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
- Trisha Das How to Write a Documentary
- Double Take by PSBT
- DOX magazine
- Nichols, Bill (2001) Introduction to Documentary, Indiana University Press: Bloomington.
Screenings:
- Michael Moore: Roger and Me
- Nanook of the North by Robert J Flaherty
- Nightmail by Basil Wright
- Bombay Our City by AnandPatwardhan
- Black Audio Collective
- City of Photos by Nishtha Jain
- Films by PSBT
