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Documentary Filmmaking Step by Step

From a 3-time Sundance alum, learn to make documentary films and videos from production to distribution on any budget
Bestseller
Rating: 4.5 out of 54.5 (534 ratings)
10,247 students
Created by Adam Bhala Lough
Last updated 10/2019
English
English
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • You will learn how to make a complete documentary feature or short film, from beginning to end; conception of the idea all the way to delivery and exhibition of the final film
  • Examples and insight into the filmmaking process through the unique lens of my own experience making award winning documentaries
  • Secrets and "producer hacks" that I've learned along the way and that no one else will tell you
  • Where I failed, so you won't make the same mistakes
  • Going rates for nearly all crew positions on a documentary feature or short (low/mid/high budget rates)
  • As a bonus you'll also get many free templates for you to download and use: contracts, agreements, budgets, schedules, forms

Requirements

  • This course is for anyone with a basic knowledge of filmmaking - narrative or documentary

Description

Get filmmaking secrets, from finding (and securing) financing, through surviving production, through distribution and everything in between from me, Adam Bhala Lough, a Spirit Award nominated, 3-time Sundance Film Festival alum and one of Filmmaker Magazine's Top 25 Indie Filmmakers to Watch.

Who am I?

I'm an internationally acclaimed 14-year vet with four documentaries currently on Netflix and three that were the #1 documentary on the iTunes charts. I've had an incredible amount of success in my career but I have also failed many, many times. You will learn where I failed along the way so you won't make the same mistakes.

I'm also a mentor at the Sundance Native labs and Latino Screenwriting labs and was a mentor at the 2015 SXSW Film Festival mentor sessions so I know how to teach in a concise and clear way.

Why should you take this course and not another?

You will get secrets only a seasoned pro can reveal- from the beauty of not paying insane clearance fees by claiming "fair-use," to how to get into a film festival without any connections. It's all in this 5 hour course.

Other courses give general knowledge of how to make a film from people with very little actual real world experience. This course is taught directly from my experience making eight feature length documentary films, all of which have received worldwide distribution and been translated into many languages.

*Watch some of the documentary short films made by my students at youtube. com/worldcinema:

Rickshaw Girl by Muzahidul Islam Zahin, a filmmaker and activist based in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Kwizera: A Story of Hope Born from Risiliance by Sahil Laul, a filmmaker based in the USA

Who this course is for:

  • Beginning filmmakers needing a roadmap to navigate the confusing and often mysterious job of a documentary filmmaker (what is it exactly that we do?!)
  • Those who will benefit most from this course will be those getting ready to embark on their first or second short or feature length documentary film
  • Veteran documentary filmmakers who want to know my secrets, short-cuts and hacks, learned the hard way from directing 8 feature-length documentaries

Course content

6 sections • 39 lectures • 4h 45m total length

  • Preview02:44

  • The Idea
    04:35
  • Logline Practice
    1 question
  • Approaching the Subject
    04:49
  • Getting the Subject to Commit
    06:23
  • Financing
    11:27
  • Preview11:54
  • Treatment Practice
    10 questions
  • Budget and Schedule
    09:39
  • LLC and Bank Account
    08:43

  • Preview03:21
  • Hiring Crew
    07:42
  • Shot-List and Scene Ideas
    10:54
  • Travel and Gear
    06:18

  • Preview09:59
  • The A/V Setup
    06:47
  • Interviewing Subjects
    08:00
  • A Typical Shoot Day
    07:46
  • Cinema Vérité
    08:12
  • B-Roll
    05:35
  • Releases
    06:39
  • The Hiatus
    05:23
  • Preview02:23

  • Prepping the Edit
    07:57
  • The Assembly
    04:02
  • The Rough Cut
    05:28
  • Music and Score
    09:40
  • Preview Screenings
    04:24
  • Locking Picture
    03:45
  • Sound Mix and Edit
    08:09
  • Narration
    04:08
  • Titles and Graphics
    06:22
  • Color and Online
    06:49
  • Screening the Film for Subjects
    07:37

  • Applying to Film Festivals
    08:14
  • Film Festivals and Publicists
    08:48
  • Sales Agents
    08:18
  • Distributors
    13:01
  • E&O and Fair Use
    14:57
  • Self-Distribution
    14:27
  • Final Thoughts
    00:31

Instructor

Adam Bhala Lough
Sundance Documentary Filmmaker
Adam Bhala Lough
  • 4.5 Instructor Rating
  • 534 Reviews
  • 10,247 Students
  • 1 Course

3-time Sundance Film Festival alum, Spirit Award nominated writer/director/producer and one of Filmmaker Magazine’s Top 25 Independent Filmmakers to Watch, Adam Bhala Lough has dedicated his career to telling compelling stories, collaborating with interesting people and creating authentic work. Over the past 16 years he has made 10 feature length films and documentaries while mentoring younger generations of filmmakers.

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