Schedule:
Jan 10 Introduction: Producing and Directing
Low Budget, Short Sports Documentary Videos that Promote
Progressive Social Change
15 Formulating Ideas for Sports
Documentary Projects that Promote Progressive Social Change
17 Research and
Writing the Proposal; PRELIMINARY PROJECT IDEA PRESENTATIONS
22 Shaping the
Approach, Structure, and Style: Modes of and Aesthetic Approaches
to Sports Documentaries
24 Basic Digital Editing
29 Digital Editing Practice
31 Writing the Treatment
and Narration; Directing the Documentary
Feb 5 Budgeting and Scheduling; PROPOSAL
PRESENTATIONS
7 VIEWING
OF EDITING EXERCISES; Still Image Scanning &
Counterpoint/Overlap (B Roll) Recording & Editing
12 Digital Video
Recording; WRITTEN PROPOSAL/TREATMENT/BUDGET/SCHEDULE DUE
14 Digital Video Recording
Practice
19 Lighting
21 Lighting
Practice
26 Audio
Recording and Dubbing
28 Audio Recording and Dubbing
Practice
Mar 5 MIDTERM EXAMINATION
7 Equipment Checkout
12 Spring Break
14 Spring Break
19 Still Image
Scanning/Editing & COUNTERPOINT/OVERLAP (B-Roll) RECORDING RAW
MATERIAL PRESENTATIONS
21 Still Image
Scanning/Editing Practice
26 More Advanced Digital Editing
28 Digital Editing Practice
Apr 2 COUNTERPOINT/OVERLAP EDITED SEQUENCE
(approx. 2-5 minutes) PRESENTATIONS
4 Special Effects
9 Special Effects
Practice
11 Audio Mixing
10 Titles
16 HDV Tape
Transfer
18 Project Problem Solving
23 Project Problem Solving
25 FINAL PROJECTS DUE; CLASS
SCREENING of Completed Sports Documentary Projects
Required Reading Sport and Social Change: Documentary Production Comm. Studies 639 Section 005 Spring 2013
Required Texts:
Bernard, Sheila Curran, Documentary Storytelling, Making Stronger
and More Dramatic Nonfiction Films, 3rd ed., Focal Press, 2011.
Hampe, Barry, Making Documentry Films and Videos, Holt Paperbacks,
2007.
Wenner, Lawrence A., ed., MediaSport, Routledge, 1998, (full
electronic text available UNC-CH Libraries, online resource).
Rail, Genevieve, ed., Sport and Postmodern Times, SUNY Press, 1998
(NetLibrary electronic book UNC-CH Libraries, online access).
Recommended Texts:
Rabiger, Michael, Directing The Documentary, 5th ed., Focal Press,
2009.
Rosenthal, Alan, Writing, Directing, & Producing Documentary
Films, 2nd ed., SIU Press, 1996.
Kindem, Gorham & Musburger, Robert, Introduction to Media
Production 2nd ed., Focal Press, 2001.
Nichols, Bill, Introduction to Documentary, 2001, (electronic text
available via the UNC-CH Libraries, online access).
Wigging, David and Patrick Miller, eds., The Unlevel Playing
Field, A Documentary History of African American Experience in
Sport, UI Press, 2003.
O'Reilly, Jean and Susay Cahn, eds., Women and Sports in the
United States, NEU Press, 2007.
Required Reading Schedule:
(Required)
(Recommended)
(Recommended) (Recommended)
(Required) (Required)
(Recommended)
Bernard
Rabiger
Rosenthal & [Nichols]
Kindem & Musburger
Hampe Wenner & Rail
Wiggning/Miller
&
O'Reilly/Cahn
Jan 10 1-11
65-98
1-13
1-38
1-88
15
133-147
27-50; 257-282) 14-44;
223-258
39-42
91-143 Wenner 134-217; 266-281
& Rail 49-139 Wigging/Miller & O'Reilly/Cahn
17
119-132; 157-171
51-64
[Nichols 99-138]
42-52
144-172
22
15-91; 100-107
99-130;283-334
45-103; 181-213 61-72;
83-88
173-215 Rail ix-xxi; 143-161
24
187-203
205-253; 504-5210
331-346
315-345
29
31 149-157;
205-221
5-26;131-137;361-381;449-461;492-503
256-313
Feb 5
128-130;366-369;375-381
105-131
52-58
347-389
7
513-521
65-180
12 173-186
99-117;139-160
133-163; 281-290 103-129;
217-251
14
383-420;438-484
217-238; 255-267
19
161-173
181-214
21
26
174-194;421-437
252-255
28
Mar 5
7
12
14
19
21
26
403-405
28
Apr
2
443-481
214-221
377-382
4
482-496
281-311
9
11
16
18
23