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Faculty Documentary Student Documentary
Micro-Documentary: 5:00-9:59 including all credits A micro-documentary covers a subject matter that suits an unconventionally short running time but accommodates newer trends in documentary production. It follows the fundamental tenet of documentary as “the creative treatment of reality” and a nonfiction storytelling and employs a variety of expressive methods uniquely configured to fit a topic within a short amount of time. Not only can it attempt to capture emphatic moments in a continuing story, but it can also get experimental in its use of audio-visual expressions and narratives. Micro-Documentary: 5:00-9:59 including all credits A micro-documentary covers a subject matter that suits an unconventionally short running time but accommodates newer trends in documentary production. It follows the fundamental tenet of documentary as “the creative treatment of reality” and a nonfiction storytelling and employs a variety of expressive methods uniquely configured to fit a topic within a short amount of time. Not only can it attempt to capture emphatic moments in a continuing story, but it can also get experimental in its use of audio-visual expressions and narratives.
Short-Form Documentary: 10:00-39:59 including all credits A nonfiction video story with a social, cultural, biographical, informative, historical, philosophical, scientific, or other subject matter. Short-Form Documentary: 10:00-39:59 including all credits A nonfiction video story with a social, cultural, biographical, informative, historical, philosophical, scientific, or other subject matter.
Documentary Feature: 40:00 & longer including all credits A nonfiction video story with a social, cultural, biographical, informative, historical, philosophical, scientific, or other subject matter.

Documentary Feature: 40:00 & longer including all credits A nonfiction video story with a social, cultural, biographical, informative, historical, philosophical, scientific, or other subject matter.