While acknowledging the importance of observational documentary, this course is devoted to furthering the skills and craft of the narration based documentary. It will help you develop solid dynamic film structures and show you how to write winning proposals as well as excellent and entertaining integrated narration scripts.

The course will examine the structures and possibilities of working in and writing different forms of documentary, such as drama docs, bio-pics, and experimental docs. It will also look at the challenges of various kinds of documentaries from popular human interest stories, through to history and journalistic investigation documentaries.

The course is interactive, so you will be able to discuss the development, writing and structural problems of any documentary you are working on, or would like to make.

Lectures and discussions will be supplemented by video extracts.

ALAN ROSENTHAL
Alan has worked in England and America. He has made over 40 documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4 UK, PBS, CBC, ABC, Arte and ZDF and has taught at many of the world’s film schools. His films have won Emmys and Cine Eagles and he is also the recipient of the prestigious Peabody Award for Journalism. Alan has written six books on documentary, including the popular "Writing, directing and producing documentary films”.

Alan is currently in Australia writing and directing an hour and half docu- drama for German TV called "The First Fagin."

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