COMM 363 - Documentary Storytelling

Credit(s): 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
When Offered: Spring

This course explores the documentary genre, its artistic characteristics, storytelling effectiveness, and social/cultural themes related to this style of filmmaking. Students will focus on identifying and developing story ideas and implementing creative storytelling techniques into their projects. Each student will pitch, research and develop a topic for a short documentary (5 to 8 minutes) that he/she will fully produce. These films will be presented at a screening event on campus toward the end of the semester. Prereq: COMM 360 or instructor’s approval.