DOC 582 - Community Voices: Global Stories

Prerequisite, consent of instructor. Hands-on training in international social issue documentary film production. Working as part of a team, students will spend the semester developing and beginning to produce a short documentary to be filmed during the summer and completed during fall semester. Students will learn the fundamentals of documentary pre-production and production, as well as the core concepts behind international social issue documentary filmmaking. Students in this course will also learn how to analyze critically the work of other filmmakers doing international filmmaking, and to bring social issues such as class and race, as well as topics related to representation and insider-outsider filmmaking, into the storytelling process. This course is part of a year-long experience and requires subsequent enrollment in DOC 583 and DOC 584. DOC 582 is held with DOC 382. Letter grade. Fee: $300. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits