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Media & Communication School of Art & Design Coventry University
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261MC
DOCUMENTARY
PRODUCTION
Scheme of Work 2011-12
Module Leader: Ken Fero E: [email protected] Lectures begin: Thursday 13th October 2011 Submission of Coursework: Friday 1st December 2011 Return of Coursework: Friday 15th December 2011
Coventry University School of Art and Design
Media & Communication School of Art & Design Coventry University
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Weekly Syllabus and Teaching Schedule
Module Blog: http://documentaryproduction2011.wordpress.com
1 13/10/11
Lecture: 12.00 – 1.15 Lecture Theatre ETB10 Blast! From Direct Cinema to Self Destruction What is to be done? Approaches to Documentary Production Screening: La Jetee, British Sounds, Global Economic Meltdown, Songs of our Lives, Bi-Polar, RIP Remix Manifesto. Workshop: Documentary Projects - generating ideas
Group A: 1.30 – 3.00 (KF) ETB10 Group B 3.00 – 4.30 (KF) ETB04
• Finding and researching your subject. • Writing a film description • Visual storyboarding • Set 1 minute film assignment
By next week:
• Set up your 261 blog • Watch 'a documentary' • Write a 100 word review of the documentary you watched. • Shoot some initial images and put on your blog • Write a 100 word proposal for a 5 minute film on the themes.
Skills Instruction: Compulsory and included in your core module
2 20/10/11
Lecture: 12.00 – 1.15 Lecture Theatre ETB10 They’ve got issues! The filmmaker as author, observer, historian and movie star. Screening: Moore, Wiseman, Morris, Longinotto and Broomfield. Fetish Obsession - Calvin or Naomi Klein? 'Trouble the Water' Workshop: Documentary Styles - finding your own.
• Present initial ideas visually and review • Writing a documentary treatment • Negotiating access and relationship with subject. • Process journalism • Creative Lighting styles
Group A: 1.30 – 3.00 (KF) ETB10 Group B 3.00 – 4.30 (KF) ETB04
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By next week:
• Write your individual treatment • Reflect in blog • Cinematography assignment • Complete 1 minute film assignment
3 27/10/11
Lecture: 12.00 – 1.15 Lecture Theatre ETB10 What is to be undone! Rule of the underdogs
On the margins of politics and style. Screening: Grey Gardens, Injustice & Tarnation Workshop: Interim Critique & Feedback
• Storytelling and audience • Interviewing techniques • Presentation of 1 minute films and selection of cell projects
Group A: 1.30 – 3.00 (KF) ETB10 Group B 3.00 – 4.30 (KF) ETB04 By next week:
• Further group research/plan of selected projects • Prepare visual storyboard
4 03/11/11
Lecture: 12.00 – 1.15 Lecture Theatre ETB10 Visiting Filmmaker: Emily James Emily is the director of Just Do It! "A smart, funny, adrenalised portrait of 21st century activism" Danny Leigh - The Guardian Workshop: Presentations & Feedback
• Present group treatments & storyboards Group A: 1.30 – 3.00 (KF) ETB10 Group B 3.00 – 4.30 (KF) ETB04 For next week:
• Further group research/plan of selected projects • Prepare final storyboard and shooting script • Schedule and plan shoot • Begin film shoot.
5 10/11/11
Lecture: 12.00 – 1.15 Lecture Theatre ETB10 Radical Oscars? Third Way or Lost Their Way. Mainstream documentary Film Practices. Screening: Taxi To the Dark Side, Grizzly Man, Waltz With Bashir, The Cove.
Workshop: Group tutorials & Feedback Group A: 1.30 – 3.00 (KF) ETB10 Group B 3.00 – 4.30 (KF) ETB04
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For next week: • Continue film shoot • Transfer rushes to drives’ log and grade
6 17/11/11
Lecture: 12.00 – 1.15 Lecture Theatre ETB10 F**K Da System (or f**k yourself) Pitching or Bitching? Screening; War Game, On the Verge and Etre et Avoir. Peter Watkins and the destruction of the Monoform Legal & Moral issues and rights - Contracts and copyright http://sheffdocfest.com/view/pitches
Workshop: Group tutorials & Feedback • Review rushes and feedback • Edit plan
Group A: 1.30 – 3.00 (KF) ETB10 Group B 3.00 – 4.30 (KF) ETB04 For next week:
• Complete blog entries to date. • Logging and edit plan
7 24/11/11
Lecture: 12.00 – 1.15 Lecture Theatre ETB10 Surgery or butchery? Vertov v The Spice Girls. A brief history of montage in the form of an Edit Clash
Workshop: Creative surgery - Editing Feedback • Group tutorial: Edit •
Group A: 1.30 – 3.00 (KF) ETB10 Group B 3.00 – 4.30 (KF) ETB04 For next week:
• Continue edit • Ensure that your finished artefact is exported to DVD and
MiniDv tape. • Complete blogs
8 01/12/11
Lecture: 12.00 – 1.15 Lecture Theatre ETB10 The mouse that roared - creative audio and image Screening: Black Audio Film Collective - Handsworth Songs, A World Without Words. A Short Film About Killing. . Workshop: Creative surgery - Post Production
Group A: 1.30 – 3.00 (KF) ETB10 Group B 3.00 – 4.30 (KF) ETB04
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HAND IN YOUR ASSIGNMENT
• Group Project Editorial Review
9 10/12/11
Assessment Week
10 15/12/11
Lecture: 12.00 – 1.30 Lecture Theatre ET130 Module screening and discussion of all documentaries produced Module Feedback Sheet LECTURERS FEEDBACK
All Groups: 1.30 – 3.00 (KF) ETB10 It is a requirement of the module that you attend your assessment
session on time. If you do not, you will lose marks.
