You will mainly learn through the experience of producing your programme, with group tutorials with your project supervisor. Where applicable you will also be negotiating directly with a client on a quasi-professional basis. Throughout the project you are encourage to keep an individual production diary in which you systematically record your production meetings and your individual learning. This process of reflection on the production process, along with discussion of the finished programme with your peers, informs the project evaluation with which you conclude the module.

Rabiger, M (2004) DIRECTING THE DOCUMENTARY. 4th Edn Focal
Fauer, Jon (2001) SHOOTING DIGITAL VIDEO Focal
Lyver, D & Swainson , G (1999) THE BASICS OF VIDEO PRODUCTION Focal
Thompson , Roy (1998) THE GRAMMAR OF THE SHOT Focal
Thompson , Roy (1993) THE GRAMMAR OF THE EDIT Focal
Dancyger , Ken (2003) THE TECHNIQUE OF FILM & VIDEO EDITING Focal

Location camcorder kits
Video editing workstations
Video playback equipment
Archive sources where applicable to the project
Library resources

A video documentary programme, produced in a small group, which answers the brief you have negotiated at the start of the module and shows your ability to plan, script, shoot and post produce a video appropriately to its subject. (Supported by production notes.) [Learning Outcomes 1, 3, 4]

An individual written evaluation of the effectiveness of the production and post-production processes in relation to the created product (1000 words) [Learning Outcomes 2, 3]

This module follows on from preparation you have done in your previous semester - the Documentary Research module - plus a module in which you have acquired camera and video editing skills. Here you take the project you have developed up to the completion of the pre-production stage and put it into production, post-production and evaluation. At the start of Video Documentary Production 1 you will have the opportunity, in response to feedback you received at the conclusion of your last semester's module, to negotiate with you supervisor minor modifications to the brief and/or script you have devised. (There is not time or scope in this module to completely revise your project from scratch.)

Your experience in this module depends on the nature of the project you have devised in the last semester. At the end of this module your finished work will be shown and discussed along with the work of your peers. This feedback forms a very important part of your learning and will directly inform your written evaluation of your finished product.

AM75027-2 Preparation 1: Documentary Research
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AM75034-2 Practical Film Gentre