Overview

Video Document is an introductory video production course that aims to develop fundamental skills in creating video documentaries, while engaging with issues around accuracy, authority, editorial and the manufacture of belief. You will choose and research a topic pitch a proposal to produce a video documentary covering your findings, then … For more content click the Read More button below. You will then pitch and produce a second video work employing tactics of propaganda, essaying a topic as seen from your personal viewpoint. This will allow questions of how media technology confirms belief to be addressed.From these exercises you will be able gauge the appropriate and effective use of video in your own documentation and be better prepared to 'read between the lines' of video essays made by others. This course relates to companion courses in sound production and imaging. It's useful for any student involved in video documentation and production research, in that it provides fundamental skills in production while clarifying the advantages and intellectual pitfalls involved.

Course Attributes

General Education

Delivery

In-person - Standard (usually weekly or fortnightly)

Course Outline

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