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MASTERS IN CREATIVE DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING

 

OVERVIEW

This unique online and optionally blended Masters programme in creative documentary filmmaking will provide you with theoretical insight, practical tools and professional support to develop your documentary film practice and to build networks with the international documentary film industry.

You will be encouraged to find your unique authorial voice and to make politically and aesthetically challenging and creative documentary films that speak to an international audience. You will learn about diverse documentary approaches and practices, and will have to consider aesthetic, ethical and environmental challenges.

Course Details

For full-time students, the programme will run over twelve months, from September to August. There is a two-year option for part-time students.

The programme offers online modules that support you to extensively research, develop and produce a high-quality documentary film alongside a portfolio of short film exercises.

Blended learning activities will include a combination of synchronous and asynchronous lectures, interactive group seminars, practical workshops, and individualised feedback tutorials from filmmakers and industry professionals.

There will be online learning resources and recorded technical demonstrations to support and develop skills in directing, producing, interviewing, camera operation, sound-recording, editing and sound design.

You will be encouraged to establish contacts with local film organisations and networks to support the production of your films. This will allow for developing a sustainable film practice within your own environment.

You will have the optional opportunity to meet in-person with your fellow-students and your tutors at three junctures during the programme, to exchange ideas, develop contacts and a community, and to receive hands-on one-on-one support.

These in-person meetings will take place at international documentary film festivals, in Germany, France and the UK, where you have the unique opportunity to build networks with filmmakers, producers, commissioning editors and other industry professionals. You will also have access to industry events and documentary film screenings at each festival.

The meetings will take place at the research/development phase (autumn), the pre-production/production phase (spring), and the post-shoot/pre-edit phase (early summer).

If you are unable to attend one or more of these meetings, we will provide suggestions for alternative online festivals that you could attend instead.

For further information please go to: https://www.napier.ac.uk/courses/ma-creative-documentary-filmmaking-postgraduate-distance-learning-full-time