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This is an intermediate level course in the Film program aimed at developing student鈥檚 skills and knowledge as a professional filmmaker.
In today鈥檚 world documentary film serves to document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record. Documentary film provides a voice for minorities and the marginalised and is an important media form to bring matters to the attention of a society. Reality TV is a spin-off from documentary, which contains much more manipulation of the content. This course identifies some of the key points in the development of the documentary and reality TV form and its evolution.

Students are introduced to the history and aesthetic practices of the Documentary film and site its place and importance in the history of cinema. The course also considers at how reality TV has evolved from the documentary form. Documentary production and reality TV techniques are then explained using practical examples. Students then use this skill and knowledge base to write and produce their own documentary films or reality TV pilot in a group situation.

This course develops in students the organisational, planning and strategic skills required of the documentary and factual entertainment producer. It provides opportunities for students to develop the skills needed to interpret, critically analyse and produce their own documentary films or reality TV shows using methods and techniques learnt in previous courses.

It requires students to apply their grasp of documentary and factual entertainment theory, and to produce a completed original documentary or factual entertainment production in video as authentic assessment.