MAC 482 Documentary Film Production

400 levelCommunication & Media10 topics

MAC 482 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

Definition and history of the documentary
Evolution of documentary traditions
Types and modes of documentary
Research and pre-production planning
Scripting and storyboarding the documentary
Field production and interviewing techniques
Cinematography for documentary
Editing and narration
Ethics in documentary production
Producing a short documentary film

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Definition and history of the documentary

The topic "Definition and history of the documentary" focuses on what makes a film a documentary and how the form developed over time from early actualities to more sophisticated modern styles. For the exam, you must master both the core meaning of documentary as a non-fiction screen form and the major historical stages that shaped its purpose, techniques, and social role.

What you get for MAC 482

Every topic above, split into sessions and dated against your exam.
Practice questions per session, with answers that explain themselves.
Offline reading — the whole course is a few hundred KB on your phone.
An AI tutor that answers questions using this course's own material.

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