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This is a MOOC by Universidad Carlos de Madrid.
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The subject is documentary film.
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A documentary is a story about reality made out of images, sounds and music.
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All of us have watched documentaries about nature or lost civilizations on TV.
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You may know who Michael Moore is.
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But this is just the tip of the iceberg.
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In this course we are going to plunge, in a creative and interactive way,
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into the language of the audiovisual documentary.
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When we talk about the documentary we are dealing with History.
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For more than a century documentary filmakers have been showing us the world
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through their eyes.
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New documentary formats and new ways of fundraising are emerging.
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The documentary is reinventing itself over the internet
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and is offering us a wide variety of possibilities
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through webdocs, documentary ciberactivism or crowdfunding.
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In this course you will learn how new technologies
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allow us to interact with the content.
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The world has become a huge documentary and we share our views on things
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through social networks.
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More and more people are using their smartphones
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to document life.
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I'm Pilar Carrera, Director of the MOOC
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"DOCUMENTARY! New Trends, New Formats".
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Sign up for this course,
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because deep down we are all documentary filmakers.
