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Documentary Production Practice

  • ACM317
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This unit will enable students to develop an understanding of how documentary texts claim and are read as 'truth', practice techniques of concept development and creative teamwork, demonstrate advanced skills in film, video and sound production, to work with the range and diversity of approaches to the use of 'actuality' in media, and locate the claims made by and for documentaries within wider critical discourse. Topics to be addressed include contemporary practices, audiences and institutions, modalities of documentary, power and ethics in documentary practice; distinctions between documentary, news, entertainment, and other non-narrative forms; the identification of source material... -- Course Website

Instructor: S Wilmot

Prerequisites: ACM213



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