| Beschreibung |
Lehrende : Aysegül Selenga Taskent
Registration via Bison and with short motivation via email an: ayseselenga@gmail.com
First meeting on the 18th of October - Online. The meeting link will be sent after registration period.
MEMORY, FACES AND SPACES:
A DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING EXPERIENCE
Face-to-Face
This unique course will give students the chance to do a full immersion in experimental
documentary filmmaking.
Detailed Description
This course will guide students through the pre production, production and post production
stages of documentary filmmaking. Students will work either in groups or individually and
are expected to choose a subject or a place that they can experimentally portray in a short
documentary video. The short documentaries produced in this course will be a testimony, a
trip down the memory lane of the filmmakers’ personal history, exploring their ethnicity,
cultural background, gender divisions, gender roles, etc. It will be an introspective art
experience as well as a participatory filmmaking experience.
Pre-production, production, post-production stages
Students will be introduced to the theoretical analysis and practical methods of
documentary filmmaking, will watch several documentary films and explore the preproduction,
production and post-production processes and techniques for documentary
film production. Voice overs can be used as well as interviews, ambient sounds and
copyrighted music. This hands on production course will allow students to work with audiovisual
story telling. Students will explore the relationship between memory, faces,
experiences and spaces. They will develop and improve their creative storytelling skills
through an experimental eye.
At the end of the course, students will complete a short experimental documentary film
which they have fully produced. The short videos will be screened publicly at the end of
the course in a student show. The final projects will become part of the students’ portfolios.
Selected projects can participate in national and international film festivals.
COURSE SCHEDULE
Week 1
Introduction to the course
Week 2
Pre-production: research, concept development
Students will be introduced to the research methods and the basic elements of writing the
conceptual framework of a documentary film project.
Assignment: Students will write a short documentary film proposal.
Week 3
Introduction to the different approaches to making a documentary film.
Students will be introduced to the various examples of documentary films.
Week 4
Research
Writing the synopsis, treatment, storyboard for a documentary film.
Week 5
Exploring, shooting, recording and editing Feedback
Students will shoot and evaluate the footage to prepare for finalizing their documentary
projects.
Week 6
Production Planning Interview Techniques Shooting
Students will learn interview techniques and restructure their projects.
Week 7
MID-TERM
Students will present their ideas, scripts, storyboards, and footage of their documentary
projects.
Week 8
Shooting, recording sound and editing video & audio for a documentary film
Students will record the narrations, the sounds
Week 9
Evaluation of the rough cuts
Students will screen their rough cuts of their documentary film projects.
Week 10
Post-Production: Editing
Students will edit their documentary film projects.
Week 11
Audio
Students will be introduced to the sound mixing techniques.
Week 12
Titling, Subtitling, Inter- titling, Transitions
Students will learn to work with the typography and aesthetic elements regarding texts
used in projects
Week 13
Post-production
Students will be introduced to laws and rules about national and international copyrights,
distribution and financial possibilities of production, co- production and distribution
Final Screenings
Presentation of FINAL Projects
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