Syllabus: Non-Fiction Research and Production

Professor Bradley Rappa, Ithaca College

“This research and production class explores a wide variety of styles and approaches to documentary film production, providing a knowledge base that students can draw on during the creation of a short 10-15 minute documentary film on a topic of their choice. Additionally, students in this course will act as documentary production mentors for 4th or 5^th grade students who are attending our Media Club program. The Ithaca College students will collaborate with the afterschool students to research and produce a 3-5 minute documentary on a topic of the elementary school student’s choice.”

Syllabus and 10-week Service Learning and Media Literacy Project assignment downloadable below.

Keywords: collaboration, documentary, group project, research, service-learning, theory and practice