PMA 6510

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PMA 6510
Documentary Production Fundamentals

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

This introductory course familiarizes students with documentary filmmaking and audiovisual modes of knowledge production. Through lectures, screenings, workshops, and labs, students will develop single-camera digital video production and editing skills. Weekly camera, sound, and editing exercises will enhance students' documentary filmmaking techniques and their reflexive engagement with sensory scholarship. Additionally, students will be introduced to nonfiction film theory from the perspective of production and learn to critically engage and comment on each other's work. Discussions of debates around visual ethnography, the politics of representation, and filmmaking ethics will help students address practical storytelling dilemmas. Over the course of the semester, students conduct pre-production research and develop visual storytelling skills as they build a portfolio of short video assignments in preparation for continued training in documentary production.


Fees REF-FA25 Course fee, $150. Cost of materials: TBA (est. $300).

Last 3 terms offered 2024FA, 2022FA, 2021FA

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ANTHR 3110, ANTHR 6110, PMA 3510

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9039 PMA 6510   STU 501

    • MW
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Raheja, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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