film, video & TV training | professional development

Discipline/s:	broadcast & post production | camera | production | sound | writing & directing
Level:	Intermediate
Course Codes Date/s & times:	DOCNS 1301:Thursday to Sunday September 19, 20 (6.15-9.15pm), 21, 22 (10am-5pm), 2013
Contact hours:	18
Places:	10
Fee:	$429 Open Channel Members / $517 (non-members) (Prices are Inclusive of GST) (Membership: $55 / $44 concession - join Open Channel here)
Prerequisites:	Students are encouraged to supply their own digital video camera (with microphone and headphone input and ability to attach a tripod base plate). Otherwise students will have shared access to Open Channel cameras. Please bring your own portable pen drive so you can save your project and take it home.

Take your next documentary to a new compelling level. Learn about advanced concept development, shooting on location vs in the studio, advanced interview techniques, ethics and some tips on festival-worthy ideas.
Get the subtle advanced skills to make your next documentary 'stand out' with this intensive theory-based course that also features essential practical advanced interview techniques.

Designed for students who have completed Documentary Filmmaking Introduction short course (DOCFI) or equivalent, or those with basic industry experience, this course builds on your existing experience to give you a more in-depth theoretical, practical and creative base on which to build larger and bolder projects.

Be guided by an experienced documentary filmmaker to:

• Examine advanced concept/script development ideas
• Learn and practice advanced interview techniques and set ups
• Examine what makes a documentary festival worthy
• Understand in greater depth the all important legal and ethical issues
• Learn the essential equipment "attention to detail" that will turn a good interview into a great one!

Please bring your own portable pen drive so you can save your project and take it home.

Who should do this course?
Emerging Filmmakers with the basic knowledge of Documentary or Digital Filmmaking who want to establish more in-depth skills and knowledge of the documentary process. A great course if you have a documentary idea and want to know how to go about it.

Where can I go after this course?
After completing this course, participants will have acquired the more advanced knowledge and skills required to start making a quality, festival-ready documentary.

Are you interested in being Accredited for this course?
Read about Accreditation Options on Short Courses

How do I Enrol?
Simply print an Enrolment Form and return to us with payment to secure a place in the Short Course. See the Enrolment Form for details on how to pay.
Short Courses Application Form (pdf)

If you wish to enrol in this course as part of a full Certificate III in Media / Advanced Diploma of Screen and Media, with up-front payment, click here.

Tutors

DIANE PERELSZTEIN
Diane is an award-winning, international documentary filmmaker. During the past 25 years, She has worked extensively in documentary cinema in Australia and in her native Belgium (which she left in 1996). Diane has written, directed and produced a number of feature-length documentary films - here in Australia (with the FFC, Film Victoria and SBS Independent), and in Europe with the support of some of the leading European broadcasters (Canal+, ZDF, Arte and France 3). Her films have been broadcast in many countries around the globe. She has worked with a wide range of film and television production techniques/delivery platforms, including video-web. Her films have been produced in a variety of styles, from 'cinéma vérité' to highly researched and fully scripted feature-length documentaries.
Between 1982 and 1996, Diane worked with RTBF and VRT (formerly BRTN), the Belgian, French and Flemish public TV networks, where she programmed, produced and directed over 100 short-length documentaries.
Diane is a graduate of the Institut des Arts de Diffusion, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la Neuve, Belgium (1981), where she majored in Film, Television and Radio.

KIM FARRANT
Kim trained as an actor in Los Angeles at American New Theatre then at The Actors Centre in Sydney. She briefly worked as an actor in short films, commercials and video clips before finding her home behind the camera in the mid nineties. She went on to get an MA Honours degree in directing from AFTRS in 2000 and since then Kim has been writing and directing drama, TV, documentaries and commercials. Her 2006 feature documentary Naked on the Inside sold to major networks worldwide and her award winning short films: The Secret Side of Me (TV half hour), Alias, Sammy Blue, Beloved and Bombshell have screened at Cannes, New York, Cork, London and Toronto and more, and sold to TV networks locally and internationally. Kim has directed Australian TV drama such as Rush and has two feature dramas in development – Strangerland, written by Fiona Seres, produced by Naomi Wenck and Macdara Kelleher and Random produced by Dixie Linder (The War Zone). Kim also directs commercials both drama and real people for campaigns such as Kelloggs, MacDonalds, Cancer Institute of NSW and more.

HELEN GAYNOR
Helen Gaynor has been a director in documentary and drama for more than 20 years. After graduating from Swinburne Film and Television school, she was trained by ABC TV where she worked for several years, directing and producing everything from The 7.30 Report to Countdown. Her drama credits include The D-Generation, A Country Practice, Neighbours, Home and Away, Big Sky, High Fliers, Something in the Air, and MDA. She has produced, written and directed several documentaries including Impunidad, which won the Chris Award at Columbus Film Festival and a Silver Star at Chicago Film Festival; The Election of the Century, nominated for UN Peace Prize; For the Defence; A Little Inconvenience; Nurses; Welcome 2 My Deaf World and Community Cop. Her most recent documentary series, Last Chance Saloon, has been nominated for a 2010 Logie Award for Outstanding Factual Program.