This course will focus on the creative process of documentary filmmaking. Students will gain practical skills with documentary filmmaking experience and industry understanding to develop their own documentaries. Students will develop their knowledge and context of documentary filmmaking by exploring the history of the documentary genre. Students' technical and operational skills will progress as well as their research and proposal writing skills.

This course combines both theoretical and practical. Hence the course will study the stylistic range of the documentary genre with a focus on film language, techniques, aesthetics, structure and other elements of cinematic storytelling. Students will be trained in the underlying practical skills necessary for documentary production.