Video and Audio post production 

Aesthetics of Editing November '24

Learn the craft of documentary filmmaking with peabody award winning director/producer/editor Ken Schneider.
Documentary filmmaking is an adventure. Docs are a confluence of art, storytelling, journalism, communication, education, and propaganda--in the original sense of the word--to propagate an idea or story. In fiction, a director creates a world over which they exercise control--as much control as possible. In non-fiction, we enter a world over which we have little or no control. Thus begins our journey. Although documentary has numerous sub-genres, most docmakers agree on this: that we seek to understand, uncover, ruminate about, meditate on, or otherwise consider, the truth through film. This class will attempt to distill—edit—a lifelong vocation and art form into 7 hours.

Our focus will be on documentary, though documentary is a deep and wide world that includes many sub-genres, including the portrait, histories, films that make an argument, non-narrative, cinema verité, personal film, the music film, etc. 
Format

In Person

Starting date

Nov 17 

Category

Video and Audio Post Production

Level

Intermediate 

Duration

7 hrs

Price

$265

Topics We'll Cover:

  • Editing workflow
  • Organizing your project
  • The 3-act structure
  • Building a scene
  • Use of archival materials
  • Editing dialogue
  • Opening and closings
  • Score, sound effects and the mix

Lessons In This Course:

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Meet The Instructor

Ken Schneider

BAVC Media Instructor
Ken Schneider is a Peabody- winning producer/director who has also edited nearly 40 feature documentaries for PBS, HBO, Showtime and Al-Jazeera, and others. He received a Peabody as Co-producer and editor of Soft Vengeance. He edited the Oscar-nominated Regret to Inform, described by the New York Times as “unforgettable ... exquisitely filmed, edited and scored.” Other films he edited have earned multiple Emmys, a Columbia-Dupont, three Peabodys, an Indie Spirit and top awards at the Sundance Film Festival. Ken is drawn to stories of war and peace, human rights, artists, American history, contemporary social issues, and Cuba.  

Ken has taught at NYU-Tisch, Chapman University, and San Francisco City College, and lectured at the SF Art Institute, University of San Francisco, and Harvard. He has been a panelist for the National Endowment for Humanities, the Emmys, and various film festivals. Other projects include: Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa (Peabody), Have You Heard From Johannesburg (Emmy winning series), The Judge (TIFF), In Football We Trust (Emmy, Sundance), Orozco: Man of Fire, Ralph Ellison: An American Journey (PBS' American Masters), Mankiller, Store Wars, School Colors (PBS' Frontline), Bolinao 52 and Ancestors in the Americas. Ken directs and edits in both English and Spanish.

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