film, video & TV training | professional development

Discipline/s:	broadcast & post production | camera | production | sound | writing & directing
Level:	Beginners
Course Codes Date/s & times:	DOCFI 1201:Thursday to Sunday February 23, 24 (6.15-9.15pm), 25, 26 (10am-5pm) DOCFI 1202:Thursday to Sunday March 29, 30 (6.15-9.15pm), 31, April 1 (10am-5pm) DOCFI 1203:Thursday to Sunday May 10, 11 (6.15-9.15pm), 12, 13 (10am-5pm) DOCFI 1204:Thursday to Sunday June 21, 22 (6.15-9.15pm), 23, 24 (10am-5pm) DOCFI 1205:Thursday to Sunday August 2, 3 (6.15-9.15pm), 4, 5 (10am-5pm) DOCFI 1206:Thursday to Sunday September 13, 14 (6.15-9.15pm), 15, 16 (10am-5pm) DOCFI 1207:Thursday to Sunday October 25, 26 (6.15-9.15pm), 27, 28 (10am-5pm) DOCFI 1208:Thursday to Sunday December 6, 7 (6.15-9.15pm), 8, 9 (10am-5pm)
Contact hours:	18
Places:	10
Fee:	$390 members/ $470 non members (Membership: $55 / $44 concession - join Open Channel here)
Prerequisites:	Computer literacy recommended. 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.

 

Get the skills to make your own short documentary with this intensive practical course.
Designed for beginners, this course gives you a solid technical and creative foundation.

Be guided by an experienced filmmaker to:

• Examine storytelling conventions
• Understand the process of concept development
• Understand legal and ethical issues
• Conduct interviews
• Use camera, lighting, sound and editing equipment
• Collaboratively shoot and edit a short documentary exercise

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

Who should do this course?
Beginners who want to establish skills and overall knowledge of the documentary process. A great course if you have a documentary idea and want to know how to tell it.

Where can I go after this course?
After completing this course, participants will have acquired the basic knowledge and skills required to start making a Documentary project.

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.

TUTOR
REBECCA MCLEAN
Rebecca has worked in the Film and Television Industry for over 25 years directing and producing short films, documentaries and countless hours of magazine television both as a director and producer. She has worked on some of ABC TV's most successful factual programs such as George Negus Tonight and The Einstein Factor; as well as Missing Persons Unit (Channel Nine) and Bread TV (Ten Network). She has also lived in Central Australia working for several Aboriginal Media Organisations such as PY Media, CAAMA and Warlpiri Media. She is now Producing and Directing behind the scenes documentaries about the film industry: last year she filmed on the set of Wog Boy 2 The Kings of Mykonos with Vince Colosimo and Nick Giannopoulos. She is currently filming on the set of Fred Schepisi's new film The Eye of the Storm starring Judy Davis and Geoffrey Rush and Charlotte Rampling.

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.

ELSE WEST
Elise West, a filmmaker and graduate of the University of Melbourne, spent seven years working as a video journalist, field producer and documentary filmmaker in Latin America. She filed a piece on her experience for SBS's Dateline in 2001, following up a year later with the highly regarded documentary Anatomy Of A Coup, about Venezuela. She's currently developing a doco series and writing a commissioned social history.

PAST TUTOR
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.

Testimonial
"The depth of the tutor’s knowledge was incredible. Such a wealth of info, and covered all areas of doco making" June 2008