Module Content

Led by a professional film maker, the module will provide you with the technical skills needed to complete a short (5-10') minute documentary film using the cameras, workstations and facilities in the department's future media studio. Students will acquire practical, analytical and intellectual skills in using moving image and sound recording equipment and discover how new technologies create new methodologies.

During the course you will examine and deploy a range of the technical, aesthetic, and representational tools involved in documentary construction. By doing so, you will become more informed as well as practically experienced commentators on the 'truths', 'fictions', styles, genres, ethics and modes of filmmaking. You will recognise the potential of film to document research, and have explored issues of representation and audience reception.

Students undertaking the course have access to the UCL Anthropology Audio Visual Lab with Premiere CC and Adobe Creative Suite enabled machines as well as professional camera kits (shared one between two students) for the duration of the course. Students will have a further five weeks at the end of the course to complete their film project.

Learning Outcomes

Having completed the course students will: 

Have made their own short documentary film, produced to a high production standard, including the use of digital video cameras and sound recording equipment and editing software. 
	Have developed analytical and critical skills in considering how film can be used to ‘capture’ and reveal the world to others. 
	Have been exposed to and challenged to reflect on the multiplicity of forms generically known as ‘documentary film’. 
	Have learned how to undertake effective research practices and to think conceptually and practically about ideas and the casting process. 
Delivery Method

One 7 hour seminar per week made up of practical lectures referencing film watch list, seminars with discussion, practical exercises in class time with review and tutorials.

Additional Information

This module is available to external candidates for £1700.
	Please note participants are also required to bring two external hard-drives on the module.