EDITING THE DOCUMENTARY

provides editing experience in three areas: developing information-handling systems to deal with large amounts of documentary film material, acquiring the means to apply ideas about that material in order to develop a comprehensive authorial approach, and acquiring editing skills in using digital, non-linear off-line video editing equipment. You will explore the entire range of documentary issues through screenings and articles. You will edit your own film interpretation from ten hours of digitized rushes from an ethnographic film dealing with the healing ritual of a Yucatec Maya shaman, a film dealing with grass-roots organizations attempting to influence the 1996 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and a film dealing with dog-show hopefuls.