J219 MINI: Associate Producer (4 weeks) 2/6 – 3/6. No class on 2/20.

The Associate Producer is a crucial job in any documentary and television magazine production. The AP is called upon to fulfill a wide range of duties: reporting, logistical planning, budget management, archival acquisition, organizing deliverables, and managing personalities—and each one has to be executed with precision for the project to be successful. Each week, instructors…

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J286 History of Documentary

The course covers the evolution of American documentary film from 1920 to the present, with special attention to long-form nonfiction for television and independent documentaries for theaters, broadcast, and the web. We will concentrate on the practical problems of making documentaries in the real world for a mass audience, with special attention to documentary materials,…

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J284 Documentary Production

An intensive documentary workshop in which second year Journalism students develop and produce their Masters projects. We work with the styles of writing, shooting, lighting, sound, editing, and production management unique to documentary. Guest filmmakers will conduct special sessions on various production skills including lighting, shooting, sound recording, and archival research.The Course Material fee for…

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“Al Qaeda’s New Front” airs on PBS FRONTLINE

A bold red rectangle with the word "FRONTLINE" written in large, white, uppercase letters at the center. There is a trademark symbol (®) in black at the bottom right corner of the rectangle, evoking a sense of college sports collaboration.

Europe. Now home to 18 million Muslims — which some call “Eurabia” — the continent is a challenge to intelligence services on both sides of the Atlantic, exacerbated by political divisions over the Iraq War. In this joint multimedia project between the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s documentary program “the fifth estate”, The New York Times and…

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