Learning

These lessons serve as an introduction to the production of documentary films, providing you with the opportunity to build an understanding of the characteristics of this genre.

These lessons focus on rhetorical devices in language, as well as essential persuasive techniques used in documentary films.

In these sessions, you will build on your understanding of documentaries by considering the difference between a focus and an angle. You will employ research skills to research your own potential topic for your documentary.

In these sessions, you will use your research from Session 3: Focus and Angle, and the techniques you learned in Session 2: The Art of Persuasion, to present your ideas to the rest of class with the aim of convincing them that your issue is important enough to be made into a documentary.

There are three main steps in film-making. Pre-production, production, and post-production. In this session, we will begin pre-production. First, you will get into teams and then you collaborate to plan and develop ideas for the films chosen from Session 3: Focus and Angle.

There are three main steps in film-making. Pre-production, production, and post-production. You have already completed the pre-production stage, where you planned and completed your storyboard. In this session, we will begin production, which is where your use your pre-production planning to begin the actual filming.

There are three main steps in film-making. Pre-production, production, and post-production. You have already completed the pre-production and production stages, where you planned and filmed the footage for your documentary. This stage is the final part of the production process, where you edit and complete the film.

Now your film is ready, you need to create a promotional campaign that will share the message and get people interested enough that they want to watch the film.