CE 0414 - Intro to Documentary Production
1034207
Delivery Options
Synchronous
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Course Description
5-Session Online Course
A gateway course for students who want to learn the art of nonfiction storytelling. This course emphasizes content development, narrative strategies, and single-camera field production in the context of ethical, aesthetic, and social issues. Students will learn how to conduct pre-interviews, write treatments, create storyboards, learn production skills to record interviews and b-roll, generate transcripts, and complete a paper edit. The experience is an opportunity for students to craft documentaries that resonate with their personal experiences and inform, uplift, and inspire social change.
Learner Outcomes
- Understand the role of the documentary filmmaker as an artist and storyteller
- Analyze strategies for developing and structuring documentary narratives
- Learn visual grammar and storytelling devices for a range of documentary genres
- Understand how to collaborate effectively on a professional documentary production
- Explore options for digital production of documentary films
Course Format
This course is delivered 100% online in a Synchronous learning format. You should reserve the meeting days and times listed for live class meetings via Zoom, but there will also be work to complete on your own outside of these hours. Synchronous courses utilize Zoom for live sessions and a learning platform called Canvas for course materials and assignments. Students are responsible for logging into Canvas, attending scheduled Zoom sessions, managing their time and completing the course requirements by the scheduled due dates. The course syllabus, materials, and zoom links will be provided to enrolled students via Canvas, or email from your instructor to your Emerson email account no later than the first date of your course.Requirements
Students participating in Professional Studies non-credit courses must possess a minimum of a High School diploma and must be an adult age 18 or older. Non-credit courses are taken primarily by professionals seeking to develop new skills, broaden their expertise, and build a knowledge base for their professional or personal goals. No application is required. Simply enroll by adding a course to your shopping cart and follow the steps during the checkout process.Applies Towards the Following Certificates
- Digital Media Production : Digital Media Production
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