This course—the second in a three-course series—shows how to produce and direct your documentary including how to interview subjects, capture observational scenes, and more.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Exercise files
- Reviewing successful pre-production strategies
- Reviewing important production documents
- Effective directing
- Setting up the interview: Location
- Setting up the interview: Aesthetic
- Conducting the interview: Getting great responses
- Conducting the interview: Working through challenges
- Shooting effective b-roll
- Shooting engaging observational scenes
- Camera, sound, and more
- Conducting interviews
- Working in the field
- Media management and edit handoff
- Next steps
- The finished documentary, "Veteran's Work: The Project RELO Story"
Taught by
Ashley Kennedy
