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Documentary Film Making

Documentary Film Making
TRAINER

TRAINER

Eyad AlDaoud

INFORMATION

From: 17/02/2019 - 28/02/2019

Time: 09:00 - 16:00

Category: Audiovisual Journalism

12360QAR / 3387USD

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Prerequisites

- A degree in media.
- At least one-year experience in journalism for non-media graduates.

Course Description

“There is nothing more amazing than reality”. This quote of Federico Fellini opens up the appetite and desire to wander in this world and ponder over its details and it emits the challenge of discovering the truth, and transforming it into an enjoyable visual and narrative reality.
To make a good documentary, one needs vigilant eyes, emotional involvement, intellectual ability and good perception, in addition to the ability to ask relevant questions about life, the universe and nature. If the subject and the materials are very important in the documentary, the deep thinking about the appropriate artistic form is of great importance in this course.

Course Objective

At the end of the course, participants should:
- improve the skills of directing, production, photography and montage.
- Developing the capabilities of artistic criticism and intellectual supervision of the production of documentaries.
- Professional and creative documentary filmmaking, from idea to screen.

Course Outline

- Introduction to the impact of the documentary.
- Documentary definition; Define terms and characteristics.
- A view of the documentary film schools.
- Documentary drama; Terms and conditions.
- Doctrines and methods of documentary visual narration.
- Successful documentary idea; Specifications and challenges.
- Preparing the proposed general concept for the film or documentary program.
- Means of developing artistic processing, preparing a scenario and shooting schedule.
- Documentary photography specifications and procedures, and the technical rules for motion pictures.
- How do you conduct a documentary interview?
The script function in the documentary film, and its various forms.
Types of writing language for documentary images, and successful voiceover in writing and recording.
- The magic of montage and its value in weaving the story and shaping the rhythm and identity of the film.
- Design the sound, and define the soundtrack that enriches the documentary.
- Evaluation and criticism of the film's montage copies, up to its final approved version.
- Production of a short documentary film, as a practical course project for each group of participants.

Course Benefits

A graduation certificate by Aljazeera Media Institute.