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Documentary Filmmaking Masterclass — Learn how to Plan, Write and Shoot your Documentary Film

Documentary Filmmaking Masterclass — Learn how to Plan, Write and Shoot your Documentary Film This course will give students who are making or are planning t...
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Hein Ungerer

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Language: English
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Documentary Filmmaking Masterclass — Learn how to Plan, Write and Shoot your Documentary Film

This course will give students who are making or are planning to make documentary films a solid framework for producing factual films, providing filmmakers with the skills to keep control of the process of filmmaking thereby ensuring that the film’s storyline is realized.

I have designed the lessons in such a way that they are more informative than prescriptive. Filmmaking for me is a very personal activity and I tend to read, watch and experience as much as I can on the subject and then bringing it all together I choose the best way for me to approach a specific film. And I strongly suggest you do too – see what works for you and run with that and what does not work for you – let it go!

Lessons in this course:
01 – Introduction to Documentary Filmmaking
02 – What is a Good Story
03 – Focus
04 – Narrative Structure
05 – The Shooting Script
06 – Shooting Your Film
07 – The Edit Script
08 – Writing Voice Over
09 – Summing Up

I hope you enjoy and learn from this course. I have added some projects to do after completing the course and I will be very happy to discuss these with you once you have completed them.

What can you learn from this course?

Here are three names of people who seem to have interesting stories to tell.

Have a look at them and choose one of them (or if you prefer use a person of your own choice) to research and write

  • A Focus Statement about the person and also to
  • Develop and write up a Shooting Script for a 3-minute film

The three people are:

Tebogo Masebe,

Ntando Makhubela

Erna Blancquaert

Please use the attached Example Focus Statement and Shooting Script to guide you in this exercise. Also find attached some guidelines for selecting good stories. 

Best of luck and enjoy the exercise.

Hein

What you need to start the course?

There is no prerequisite, anyone can begin this course.. This course is also great for beginners without any Video Pre-Production knowledge.

Who is this course is made for?

This course is suitable for beginners.

Are there coupons or discounts for Documentary Filmmaking Masterclass — Learn how to Plan, Write and Shoot your Documentary Film ? What is the current price?

You can enrol in this course with a Skillshare subscription that costs $8/month, but you start with a FREE 7-day trial. You can also enrol in thousands of courses on a variety of topics with your subscription, including several Video Pre-Production courses.

Will I be refunded if I'm not satisfied with the Documentary Filmmaking Masterclass — Learn how to Plan, Write and Shoot your Documentary Film course?

There is no money-back guarantee with Skillshare, but you can start with a free one-week trial to learn without risk. With the subscription, you can download classes to your tablet or phone using the Skillshare app.

Are there any financial aid for this course?

At the moment we couldn't find any available scholarship forDocumentary Filmmaking Masterclass — Learn how to Plan, Write and Shoot your Documentary Film, but you can access more than 30 thousand classes for $8/month on Skillshare, including this one!

Who will teach this course? Can I trust Hein Ungerer?

Hein Ungerer has created 8 courses that got 114 reviews which are generally positive. Hein Ungerer has taught 2,701 students and received a 4.5 average review out of 114 reviews. Depending on the information available, we think that Hein Ungerer is an instructor that you can trust.

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Hein Ungerer

Filmmaker, Mentor, Trainer
I have spent 35 years of my working life as a radio announcer, a television reporter, an investigative journalist and an executive producer for a national news and current affairs show. For the past 10 years I have been teaching at a documentary film school in Cape Town, South Africa. 



I am excited about my new journey into online skills courses and the overall positive response these have had. I really appreciate the time students have taken to review my courses. Feedback is essential for me and I invite students to tell me about their experiences.


To be clear – the courses I have uploaded are all aimed at beginner and intermediate documentary filmmakers. My focus is also more on content development than refining or improving your technical filmmaking skills.  



The aim with the Skillshare courses is to progressively cover several aspects of documentary filmmaking – and these will hopefully help develop your skills across the broad spectrum of filmmaking. My focus is on giving you access and experience into the full range of production skills. Each new course that I upload will cover another aspect of documentary film production.



I am particularly excited about developments around online media platforms and the audiences that these offer. The reach of film today is incredible. And you as an aspiring filmmaker have the power to send your voice and message out all over the world. Whatever your passion, you can tell people about it.



My personal interest in filmmaking covers mainly social justice issues that affect people, animals and the environment. I am a proponent of telling stories through people, bringing their narratives to life. And the better and more interesting your content the more viewers you will have. Years ago I attended some training at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and there I learnt that as a filmmaker who tells stories you always have to look for interesting people who do interesting things in interesting places. And that has stayed with me. 



It is great meeting you here at Skillshare. I hope you will, as fellow filmmakers, enjoy accompanying me on my new journey into online skills sharing.

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Video: 1h 13m
Language: English
Next start: On Demand

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