Course Documents
- MVA Visual Project Requirements and Deadlines 2010-2011 (download PDF)
- Course Syllabus (download PDF)
- Friday Lunch Screenings
- Questions Towards an MA Video Project Proposal (download MS-Word .doc)
- Standard Documentary Release (download MS-Word .doc)
- Writing Handouts (from my UCI technical writing class)
- Readability Exercises (download PDF) Answer Key (download PDF))
- Voice Exercises (download PDF) Answer Key (download PDF)
- USC Writing Center
Sample Grant Proposal Documents
- SHAOLIN ULYSSES: Kungfu Monks in America (finished film funded by ITVS)
- Synopsis, SU-synopsis.doc
- Personnel, SU-personel.doc
- Cash Budget, SU-cash-budget.doc
- AT HOME IN UTOPIA (finished film funded by ITVS/Lincs)
- Budget Summary, LincsPt2budgetsummary.xls
- Program Description, LincsPt3PrgrmDescrpt.doc
- Personnel, LincsPt4Personell.doc
- Work Samples, LincsPt7Samples.doc
- A Day's Work, a Day's Pay (finished film)
- Treatment, DWDP_Treatment.doc
- Outreach Proposal (raised nearly $200,000), DWDP_OutreachProposal.doc
- Rico & Starr (2009 proposal for the California Council for the Humanities)
- Proposal, Rico&Starr_CCHx.doc
- Budget, Rico-Starr_budget.xls
Week 4
- Lecture: Sound Basics, Sound in Documentary (download PowerPoint)
- Film Sound Basics (MS-Word .doc)
- Battleship Potempkin - Odessa Steps scene (Einsenstein 1925)
- Olympia - Prologue (Leni Riefenstahl, 1938)
- Sample Video Essays: http://videoessays.tumblr.com/