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Biographical Documentary (5 cr)

Code: 2E00FB45-3002

General information


Enrolment period

24.11.2021 - 10.01.2022

Timing

10.01.2022 - 14.03.2022

Credits

5 op

RDI portion

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Media

Campus

TAMK Mediapolis

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

15 - 25

Degree programmes

  • Cross-study in the Tampere Universities Community
  • Degree Programme in Media

Teachers

  • Media-ala Virtuaalihenkilö
  • Ari Koivumäki

Person in charge

Leena Mäkelä

Groups

  • 20MA
  • 19MA

Objectives (course unit)

The students are able to come up and implement a small scale documentary of a person, to develop topics suitable for a documentary and to design expression and implementation methods. The students know the principles of acquiring personal interviews and other material. They know the ethical and artistic demands of a documentary. The students know the distribution channels and customers for documentaries in Finland.

Content (course unit)

Lectures about documentary expression and working methods in television, radio and podcast productions. Developing documentary ideas in groups and scheduling the projects. Small scale audio or video projects.

Assessment scale

0-5