Photograph by CDS Continuing Education intern Teddy Leinbach
This summer the Center for Documentary Studies will offer its twelfth annual Documentary Video Institute, our one-week video boot camp that has turned out over two hundred full-fledged documentarians. From June 6 through June 13, with expert guidance from multiple instructors, students will learn all aspects of video production: pre-production and scouting locations, camera operation, lighting and sound, editing and post-production, and finally, screening in front of a live audience.
Hours for the institute are:
Saturday, June 6: 1 p.m.–9 p.m.
Sunday–Friday, June 7–12: 9 a.m.–9 p.m.
Saturday, June 13: 10 a.m.–3 p.m. (the institute concludes with a public presentation of student work)
For more information, and to register, click here. To view student projects from the 2014 institute, click here.
Lead instructor/filmmaker Randolph Benson has been a Documentary Video Institute instructor from the beginning. “The goal was for students to be able to come in and make a film, but then leave knowing how to make their own film,” he says. “So it was important to have all those elements crammed into a week. Some institute students have gone on to graduate programs in film, others have made films that have screened at film festivals around the world. “But mostly people use this as a stepping stone to self-expression,” says Benson.