Welcome to the Documentary Filmmaking J-Term! What is the Documentary Filmmaking J-Term? It is quite simply a class on making documentary films. All of us students will learn all of what goes into making a documentary! That means by the end of this course we students will come out as confident directors, camera operators, sound technicians, editors, and so forth. In addition to all these skills, all of the students in this J-term will have finished documentaries that you will be able to come and watch!
Today was our first day of the Documentary Filmmaking J-Term. In perfect fashion, we started off the day by watching a documentary on the art of documentary filmmaking. The film featured the documentary world's most famous names such as Werner Herzog and Errol Morris as well as many other big names. This film really gave us many tips and strategies specific to documentaries that would go on to help us throughout the term, I guess you could say we learned from the greats! After watching that documentary we reviewed some of the basic filming techniques used in all films that would help us in what was to come, our first project. The first project was a blast, we got to make the film on anything we wanted as long as it included a couple of types of shots and techniques we just learned about. For instance, my group’s film was about playing basketball. Eventually, the day came to an end with us sitting down and getting to watch each other's films alongside giving constructive criticism.
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