Produce Your Personal Documentary

Produce Your Personal Documentary

Winter (14+ hours) | This course is completed

85 N Main St # 142 White River Junction, VT 05001 United States

Classroom

3/24/2022-5/19/2022

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$85.00

This course offers members a thorough hands-on introduction to documentary film production. Making use of the film and video production tools available to the public at CATV (Community Access Television), members will have the opportunity to learn documentary filmmaking techniques, including cinematography, interviewing technique, story structure, script writing, narration, editing, and sound/music design.

Members are encourage to submit ideas or works-in-progress before the first session so the leaders can customize the course to their projects’ needs. The course will be conducted in a collaborative manner, with members “crewing” or assisting each other in the making of their films.

If need be, the course format will be adjusted to a virtual format, in which case equipment will be supplied by or loaned to members, as needed, for remote use. The course will culminate in a public screening and option to share finished (or works-in-progress) for broadcast on CATV.

  • Required: proof of vaccination or proof of a negative test for those attending in-person courses. Masks will remain mandatory for anyone participating in any in-person course.

    Individuals are fully vaccinated 14 days after their final dose in a COVID-19 vaccine series. Accepted COVID-19 vaccines are those that received full approval or emergency use authorization by the FDA.

    You must present proof one of three ways before course begins: 

    1. Present vaccination cards and a photo ID to an Osher staff member. 
    2. Download Bindle app and generate an entry pass for Dartmouth College.
    3. Present negative test results before each class.

    Click here for further health and safety information.

Filmmaker Samantha Davidson Green currently serves as JAM's Executive Director. She has taught film-making and film-related courses at Dartmouth and Osher since 2013, bringing her background in public media and education back to the Upper Valley after completing her MFA in Film Directing at UCLA.