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MetFilm: Documentary and Factual (Berlin)

Institution MetFilm View institution profile
Department MetFilm School Berlin View department profile
Web https://www.metfilmschool.de/
Email info@metfilmschool.de
Telephone +49 (0) 30 767 333 170
Study type Taught

Summary

The MA in Documentary and Factual will give you the skills and understanding needed to work as a director and/or producer in today’s factual content industries.

Specific topics include finding and developing ideas, research and access to contributors, creating stories, and pitching ideas. You will learn about production roles and develop skills in documentary editing, sound recording, and camerawork. Throughout the course, you will explore funding strategies and potential audiences, and be immersed in productions where you can try out a range of skills.

  • Practical: Gain training and experience in producing, directing, camera operation, sound, and editing.

  • Comprehensive: For students passionate about the various ways to shoot and document reality in today’s world, and who want to produce content that offers new insights and promotes compassion and awareness about a specific subject

  • Industry-facing: Build your understanding of the contemporary industry landscape for documentaries and factual programming, including commissioning, financing, distribution and exhibition.

  • Real-life Experience: You will conceive, create, and deliver a project to a client brief. Working within a creative team with other MA pathways, students respond to a professional brief from a commercial or non-commercial business to produce a short project and showcase their creative talent to industry professionals.

  • Portfolio: Create a portfolio of work, including two core projects (documentary and/or factual programmes), with accompanying creative development and pitch documents to support you in your future career.

MA

MetFilm School Berlin is based in a working film studio Atelier Gardens (formerly BUFA Studios), one of the oldest film studios in Europe. Berlin, home to 3.7 million people is a lively an exciting city. One of the most inexpensive capital cities in Europe, Berlin is now booming in more ways than one. With every fifth resident being international, it’s a city of great diversity and culture.  

Our mission is to inspire a new generation of creative professionals. We bring the education and screen industries together in a creative environment, driven by great teaching and practical, hands-on experience, led by …

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