Schedule:
Jan 13 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
20 Research
and Writing the Proposal; PRELIMINARY PROJECT IDEA PRESENTATIONS
22 Shaping the
Approach,
Structure, and Style: Modes of and Aesthetic Approaches to Sports
Documentaries
27 Basic Digital Editing
29 Digital Editing Practice
Feb 3 Writing the
Treatment
and Narration;
5
Budgeting and
Scheduling;
PROPOSAL PRESENTATIONS
10 VIEWING OF EDITING
EXERCISES; Still Image Scanning & Counterpoint/Overlap (B Roll)
Recording
& Editing
12 Digital Video Recording;
WRITTEN PROPOSAL/TREATMENT/BUDGET/SCHEDULE DUE
17 Digital Video Recording
Practice
19 Lighting
24 Lighting
Practice
26 Audio
Recording
and Dubbing
Mar 3 Audio
Recording
and Dubbing Practice
5 MIDTERM
EXAMINATION
10 Spring Break
12 Spring Break
17 Still Image
Scanning/Editing
& COUNTERPOINT/OVERLAP (B-Roll) RECORDING RAW MATERIAL
PRESENTATIONS
19 Still Image
Scanning/Editing
Practice
24 More Advanced Digital Editing
26 Digital
Editing Practice
31
COUNTERPOINT/OVERLAP
EDITED SEQUENCE (approx. 2-5 minutes) PRESENTATIONS
Apr 2 Special
Effects
7 Special
Effects
Practice
9 Audio Mixing
14 Titles
16 HDV Tape Transfer
21 Project Problem Solving
23 Project Problem Solving;
FINAL PROJECTS DUE
28 CLASS
SCREENING of Completed Documentary Projects
Required Reading Sport and Social Change: Documentary Production Comm. Studies 639 Section 008 Spring 2009
Required Texts:
Bernard, Sheila Curran, Documentary Storytelling, Making Stronger and
More Dramatic Nonfiction Films, 2nd ed., Focal Press, 2007.
Rabiger, Michael, Directing The Documentary, 4th ed., Focal Press,
2004.
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:
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:
(Recommended)
(Recommended)
(Required)
(Recommended)
Bernard
Rabiger Rosenthal & [Nichols]
Kindem
& Musburger Wenner &
Rail
Wiggning/Miller & O'Reilly/Cahn
Jan 13 1-11
1-46
1-13
1-38
15
137-142
117-139
14-44;
223-258
39-42 Wenner 134-217; 266-281 & Rail
49-139 Wigging/Miller & O'Reilly/Cahn
20
113-136;142-149
203-255
[Nichols
99-138]
42-52
22
47-86;93-109
47-112
45-103; 181-213 61-72;
83-88
Rail ix-xxi; 143-161
27
193-210
428-435
331-346
29
Feb 3
151-174;211-234 218; 369-402; 443-454
5
218-224; 256-281; 324-328
105-131
52-58
10
401-427;
436-442
65-180
12 177-192
141-174; 194-201; 283-301 133-163;
281-290
103-129;
17
324-367
217-238; 255-267
19
174-186;
302-312
181-214
24
26
187-194; 313-323 149-177;241-248;353-361
Mar 3
5
10
12
17
19
24
26
403-405
31
Apr 2
443-481
214-221
377-382
7
482-496
281-311
9
14
16
21
23