Lecture, three hours; laboratory, three hours; fieldwork, four to six hours. Requisite: course 185. Course 186A is requisite to 186B, which is requisite to 186C. Introductory viewing and discussion of selected documentaries and instruction in various production skills necessary to create video documentaries. Completion of series of exercises from conceptualization through postproduction, culminating in production of short documentary. Concurrently scheduled with course C403A. Letter grading.