ABOUT STUDY PROGRAMME
Study programme: Art of Documentary Forms, academic master studies
Duration: 1 year/2 semesters
Number of ESPB (ECTS): 60
Title: Master Drama and Audio-visual Artist
Academic master study programme ART OF DOCUMENTARY FORMS is a unique master programme in this part of Europe, designed to educate authors with talent and inclination towards documentary in film or TV.
Focus and specificity of this programme lies in its multimedia characteristics, where students build their artistic personality through exercise – created specifically for development of their authorship in different fields (film and TV) and for shaping their affinities.
The field of documentary semiology opens new space for aestheticexplorations of this form through creative processes, which implies understanding actual, life messages (of documentary – material world) from our environment, with their own signs and codes. That coding and decoding is a way to understand documentary language as a whole.
Documentary form art elements are topic of systematic pedagogical discourse – search for secrets of material reality and seeing and shaping that reality by an artist.
The programme is implemented through a series of pedagogical segments, i.e. lectures, creative workshops, seminars, exercises and art-teaching production which is basis of this master programme.
Creative concept is individual and autonomous, but implemented through team work.
Teaching materials are provided by the Academy and the mentor estimates scope and feasibility of each individual exercise. Students are left to independently choose and shape the topic for documentary work – from idea to realization either as film or TV form.
The world of directing and directing of the world are phenomena strongly present in our reality, no matter of the époque. Truth, fact and reality is the world represented in documentary form and which should be discovered and expressed by authors. Final master work is an artistic research process resulting in work of art – filming a documentary form lasting up to 30 minutes (documentary film or TV documentary forms).
Candidate is expected to submit:
– Motivation letter (explaining choice of AA-ADF, expectations and preferences regarding the offered programme framework)
– Portfolio of works to be used by evaluation committee to assess candidate’s artistic talents
– Application for testing of talents and abilities
– Diploma of the previously obtained degree
– Certificate of birth
– Short CV with representative references (list of academic, artistic and/or professional achievements: published/presented works, exhibitions, festivals, campaigns…participations, awards and recognitions)
– General medical certificate
– 10x15cm photo
– Confirmation of entry fee payment in the amount of 15 000 RSD/paid at the faculty financial dept./
Mandatory subjects:
– Introduction to documentary forms
– Directing of documentary forms
– Psychology of media
– Production of multimedia event
– Research work methodology
– Creative writing in documentary forms
– Creative documentary film
– History and theory of documentary forms
– Specification of master thesis
– Final – master thesis
Optional subjects:
– Aesthetics in the documentary forms filming process
– Sound recording and processing for documentary forms
– Production of multimedia event
– Editing and post-production of documentary forms
Study programme accreditation – Art of Documentary Forms
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Schedule of subjects AA-ADF