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FS 218 7910
Topics in Filmmaking: The Documentary
Block C: July 20 - August 7
1 CC unit (4 semester hours).

Classroom assignment: Edith Kinney Gaylord Conerstone Arts Center Studio B

Students will create their own short documentaries while examining the history, codes, and conventions of the feature documentary film. Topics will include documentary ethics, narrative technique, interview methods, framing and the camera, lighting for interviews, archival imagery, editing rhythm and pacing, and the business of documentary.

Prerequisites: Recommended: FS 212. Enrollment is limited to 25 students.
Dylan Nelson and Clay Haskell

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