Spring 2027

Documentary Film and Tv Production

Covers documentary storytelling, directing, and production across pre-production, filming, and editing, with a focus on techniques, aesthetics, ethics, and creating a short non-fiction video.

no offering record for this termCredits unavailable
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

Summary

1 / 3

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2022: 3.70 GPA, 93.3% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Spring 2023: 3.88 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=16 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.00 GPA, 46.7% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Produce a short documentary from idea to fine cut

  • Demonstrate proficiency in non-fiction camera, sound recording, editing, producing and directing techniques.

  • Compare and implement a variety of documentary storytelling strategies

  • Practice pre-production proposal writing

  • Evaluate peer work to identify areas of strength and areas needing improvement according to industry and assignments standards.

Source: UW Guide

Grade history

↗
average GPA
letter grades
A
AB
B
BC
C
D
F

All recorded terms · compare terms & instructors

Prerequisites

Course map

COM ARTS 355

  • COM ARTS 355
COMARTS 651

This is a best-effort interpretation; check the catalog requirements above.

Prerequisite text tree
  • COM ARTS 355

Professors

Spring 2027

No instructors recorded for this selection.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

Schedule loads here as you scroll.

SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist

Times are Central. Select a meeting for details; export includes recorded dates for the selected sections.

Meeting source records
Download part 1

Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2022: 3.70 GPA, 93.3% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Spring 2023: 3.88 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=16 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.00 GPA, 46.7% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

No workload feedback recorded.

Topics

  • Documentary storytelling and directing
  • Pre-production, filming, and editing phases
  • Techniques, aesthetics, and ethics of documentary filmmaking
  • Non-fiction camera, sound recording, editing, producing, and directing

Skills

  • Producing a short documentary from idea to fine cut
  • Non-fiction camera, sound recording, editing, producing, and directing techniques
  • Comparing and implementing documentary storytelling strategies
  • Pre-production proposal writing
  • Evaluating peer work against industry and assignment standards

Grades

Latest available · Fall 2025— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

average GPA
A / AB grades
letter grades
Instructor

Grade distribution · % of letter grades

A
AB
B
BC
C
D
F

Grades over time

Through Fall 2025

More grade details Grade mix, volume & source data

Not enough comparable courses for Spring 2027 in UW–Madison.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.

Catalog observation history

Observations at scan time; dates do not imply when a catalog change took effect.

Download part 1
Selected offering source records

No offering records for the selected term.

Raw records 
[]
Rate My Professors

Student reviews

Original comments behind the course and instructor summaries.

Read original reviews

No records available.

Madgrades

Grade history

Recorded grade distributions by term, section, and instructor.

Explore recorded grades
Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

View the dataset on Hugging Face
Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
LLM outputs across runs
Download part 1
Full model traces

Recorded model configuration, reasoning, and tool conversations.

Download part 1
Model & dataset provenance 
{
  "model": "Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B",
  "model_revision": "1d4bf0f2ff6012fd82039f2fa52739d0dd7c60c0",
  "task_version": "17",
  "output_id": "5bbbb8f416cf0dceaae3a0846d8cf46c3b92699d27444150aec702b6f9d91055",
  "requirements_status": "needs_review",
  "dataset_revision": "fc1811fa52e581ea57a35c0cf3343f8740a8ffbf",
  "observed_at": "2026-10-14 17:50:09.728220+00:00"
}