This module requires students to put theory into practice by cultivating a sense of the history and theory of documentary alongside the chance to make a short documentary film. The first part of the module requires you to produce a short documentary film that engages with four key issues related to documentary filmmaking: 1) getting your facts straight; 2) ensuring that you adhere to an ethical code whilst producing your film; 3) exploring how documentary necessarily involves the telling of a particular kind of story and the use of a particular kind of narrative form (which may take you away from the facts and towards fiction); and 4) increasing your awareness of how meaning is made in post-production (with a particular focus on editing). The second part of the module will chart the historical development of documentary filmmaking through the examination of a number of case studies ranging from the early twentieth century to the present day, giving further opportunity to examine the inter-relatedness of theory and practice in the work of well-known documentarists.

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