Documentary Storytelling

University College London

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In London

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Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Level

    Intermediate

  • Location

    London

  • Class hours

    13h

  • Duration

    5 Weeks

This five-session evening course focuses on the art of storytelling in documentary film.
Each session will include discussions of how theoretical concepts relate to formal considerations in documentary filmmaking - keeping the balance between the theory of practice and the theory in practice.
It runs over five Wednesdays, 6:30 to 9pm, and is delivered using classroom-based interactive lectures.

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Location

Start date

London
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Gower Street, WC1E 6BT

Start date

On request

About this course

This course is targeted towards:
documentary practitioners who are either preparing, shooting or editing their documentary
scholars who want to analyse or write about documentaries
anyone who is simply passionate about non-fiction films

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Subjects

  • Documentary elements
  • Conceptual watching
  • Poetic documentary
  • Documentary Research
  • Documentary Film Making
  • Observational documentary
  • Function of cutaways
  • Interactive documentary
  • Defamiliarising
  • Eflexive documentary

Course programme

The following content is an example of what will be covered, but is only indicative.


Session 1
  • Documentary elements
  • Soviet montage and conceptual watching
  • The poetic documentary
Session 2
  • Spatial and emotional impact of shot sizes
  • The immersive actuality of continuity
  • The observational documentary
Session 3
  • Character profiling through interviews
  • The function of cutaways
  • The interactive documentary
  • Participatory documentary formats
Session 4
  • Brecht and defamiliarising the audience
  • The reflexive documentary
  • The hybrid documentary
Session 5
  • Memory, identity and rhetoric through the archive
  • The expository documentary
  • Narrative structure: story and plot
  • Narrative point-of-view and subjectivity

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