2012 Video Institute. Photograph by Joel Mora.
This summer CDS will offer its tenth annual Documentary Video Institute, our one-week video boot camp that has turned out over two hundred full-fledged documentarians. From June 15 through June 22, 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 15: 2 p.m.–9 p.m.
Sunday–Friday, June 16–21: 9 a.m.–9 p.m.
Saturday, June 22: 10 a.m.–3 p.m. (Includes a public presentation of student work at 10:30 a.m. in the new Full Frame Theater in downtown Durham, North Carolina.)
For more information, and to register, click here. To view student projects from the 2012 institute, click here.
Filmmaker Randolph Benson has been a Doc 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.