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Documentary Filmmaker Training

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

What will I learn?

This course offers a quick, hands-on guide from initial ideas to finished short documentaries. You'll learn to pick compelling stories, research well, plan shoots with shot lists, access plans, and consent forms. Gain skills in designing interviews, using visual styles on basic cameras, recording clear sound on location, and editing ethically to produce tight, captivating films for festivals and online.

Elevify advantages

Develop skills

  • Master interviews to quickly capture genuine, emotional on-camera tales.
  • Design stories with precise loglines, structures, and perspectives for short docs.
  • Achieve film-like visuals and clarity using basic, low-cost equipment.
  • Capture clear speech and atmosphere audio in everyday locations.
  • Edit impactful 5-10 minute films while upholding subjects' respect and privacy.

Suggested summary

Before starting, you can change the chapters and 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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