Montage workshop 1

Display Schedule

Code	Completion	Credits	Range	Language Instruction	Semester
306MW1	credit	4	52 hours (45 min) of instruction per semester, 61 to 81 hours of self-study	English	winter

Subject guarantor

Name of lecturer(s)

Šimon ŠPIDLA

Department

Předmět zajišťuje Department of Editing

The workshop should accentuate the open form of thinking about film and through the film, namely video and audio, monitor their relationships (not only) with an emphasis on editing and the open-form sequence-shot film.

The workshop is defined space-time in which students receive pedagogical leadership not only in school exercises and work on their studies, but also in the wider framework of their future profession. Based on theoretical and practical reflections on specific topics builds a method of specific „film“ thinking.

Topics:

1•Short overview of diverse styles of films and filmmakers from different periods and countries

2•Overview of the film elements of an introduction to narrative theory in films

3•Difference between STORY and TOPIC in films. Different types of narrative and narrators. How the story is expressed by characters - setting - events

4•Review of different editing techniques and their dramatic value

5•Kuleshov Effect – Context Creates Meaning

Key words: Topic, Direction, Critical thinking, Analogy, Situation, Character, Storyboard, Filmmaking, Film language, Kuleshov Effect, Interpretation

Editing exercise: The Chase: One character chasing another. Students learn how to effectively show time and space relations.

Photoplay exercise: A photoplay consisting of 12 – 15 photographs. Student should demonstrate the ability to tell a simple story in images. Each image represents a shot in a silent movie and their order should be marked on the back side of the photographs. Each should capture a characteristic moment of the assumed shot regarding content and composition. If the content or composition of the shot changes significantly, 2 pictures are required – one representing the opening phase and the second one the closing phase (pictures should be marked 2, 2a, etc.) A simple plot outline should be attached to the photoplay – but it should of course be comprehensible without it too. Because the content, composition and structuring of the photoplay are assessed, it is required that the student takes the pictures by himself. It will be considered the rule of 180 degree.

Learning outcomes

Successful implementation of all group and study exercises. Gathering of knowledge from the workshop program.

Prerequisites and other requirements

Readiness to devote the maximum of one's time and energy to the successful mastery of challenging tasks arising from the implementation of the practical exercises.

Literature

Walter Murch: In the Blink of an Eye

Silman-James Pr; 2. revised edition (2001),

ISBN-10: 1879505622 | ISBN-13: 978-1879505629, 148 pages

Ralph Rosenblum and Robert Karen - When the shooting stops...the cutting begins ISBN-10: 0306802724; ISBN-13: 978-0306802720

The Technique of Film Editing

Compiled by Karel Reisz, Gavin Millar Editioni llustrated Publisher Focal Press, 2010 ISBN 0240521854, 9780240521855 Length 346 pages

Evaluation methods and criteria

Completion of a film and submitted explication

Note

none

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon	room 311 Room No. 311 (Lažanský palác) ŠPIDLA Š. 14:00–17:15 (parallel1)
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Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Mon	14:00–17:15	Šimon ŠPIDLA	Room No. 311 Lažanský palác		parallel1

Schedule for summer semester 2024/2025:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans

Montage_2020 (Required main subjects)