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Documentary Filmmaker Training

Documentary Filmmaker Training
4 to 360 hours flexible workload
valid certificate in your country

What will I learn?

This course provides a practical pathway from concept to completed short documentary film. Participants learn to identify compelling stories, conduct thorough research, and organise shoots using detailed shot lists, access plans, and consent protocols. Key skills include designing effective interviews, employing visual storytelling with compact cameras, capturing clear location audio, and performing ethical editing to produce engaging documentaries suitable for festivals and online distribution.

Elevify advantages

Develop skills

  • Master interviews to elicit authentic, emotional narratives swiftly and assuredly.
  • Develop story structures with precise loglines, arcs, and perspectives for impactful short docs.
  • Achieve cinematic visuals on a shoestring budget using basic equipment.
  • Capture crisp dialogue and ambient sound in challenging real-world locations.
  • Edit ethically to produce compelling 5-10 minute films that honour subjects' integrity.

Suggested summary

Before starting, you can change the chapters and the workload. Choose which chapter to start with. Add or remove chapters. Increase or decrease the course workload.
Workload: between 4 and 360 hours

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