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Shooting a Character Documentary
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Online - Self Paced
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About Shooting a Character Documentary
Introduction
Shooting the Character Documentary
Finding your Character
The Logline
The Treatment
The Interview
Intro to Camera and Sound
Prepping Your Equipment
Setting up the Camera
Setting up Sound
Fundamentals of the Image
Fundamentals of Sound
Shooting the Interview
After the Interview
Establishing Shots, B-roll, and Verite
Closing Thoughts
What You Will Learn?
- Everybody has at least one exceptional character in their life: your eccentric Aunt Tilly or the mailman that hasn’t stopped whistling for 20 years. “Somebody should make a documentary about her,” you think to yourself. That somebody is you..
- In this 45-minute class, you’ll learn the step-by-step process for producing and shooting a short character documentary that educates, inspires or makes your audience smile. Award-winning documentary filmmaker Danya Abt and cinematographer Zac Halberd will share their process for developing and shooting a impactful documentary..
- A video camera and basic editing software is required for this class and an external microphone is highly recommended. By the end, you’ll have your short documentary in-the-can and ready to edit..