YFC 2021: Advanced Documentary Technique: The Legacies Project
Michigan Theater Foyer
Monday, Aug 9, 2021 - Friday, Aug 13, 2021
This one-week Advanced Documentary Technique: The Legacies Project session will train campers on making a comprehensive video history of community elders—who we call “narrators,” since they’re telling the stories of their lives. This is where the rubber meets the road. Campers will be assigned narrators to interview, and will then use the basic documentary techniques taught in Sessions 1 & 2, and learn advanced interviewing techniques to draw out and identify the stories from a stranger’s life that would be most suitable for a short form documentary. They will then edit that documentary for public display at a capstone screening event at the Michigan Theater.