DOCMA Club

The first rule of DOCMA Club is:
​ DOCMA is a five-minute collaborative documentary film

The second rule of DOCMA Club:
​Its made by five filmmakers on one theme

Third rule of DOCMA:
Each film is made in a different documentary style

Fourth rule:
Films should be made in isolation from the other filmakers 

Fifth:
DOCMA is then shown as a complete film.

Early Wednesday morning I made my way to Woodend Barn in Banchory to take part in a documentary making workshop. 

The workshop was led by the filmmaker Anne Milne. Anne introduced the class to  the rules of DOCMA and explained how the DOCMA Collective grew out of a collaboration with DocKlub, a monthly support group for documentary filmmakers based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

In preparation for the workshop we each brought a single word theme, that may or may not be chosen. A lottery then ensued to decide our groups, theme and documentary styles.

Just over two hours later we parted company with a deadline of four days to film, edit and upload our one minute films.

The completed films will be uploaded at a future date to the DOCMA website.