ACF305 - Documentary Production

Year:

2025 unit information

Enrolment modes: Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne)
Trimester 3: Burwood (Melbourne)
Credit point(s): 1
Previously coded as: ACF202, ACM217, ACM317
EFTSL value: 0.125
Prerequisite:

Students must complete one level 1 unit from ACF103 or ACF109 and ACF208

Corequisite: Nil
Incompatible with:

ACM217, ACM317

Study commitment

Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Scheduled learning activities - campus

1 x 3-hour on-campus seminar per week

Note:

Student enrolment quotas apply to this unit

Content

The topics to be addressed in this unit includes: contemporary practices, audiences and institutions, modalities of documentary, power and ethics in documentary practice; distinctions between documentary, news, infotainment, and other non-narrative forms; the identification of source material including archive material, and production techniques specific to documentary making.

Unit Fee Information

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