Tools of Movie Image Design

Course unit code:

311TMI

Course unit title:

Mode of delivery:

zkouška

Range:

2/T

Type of course unit:

Study plan Fotografie EN - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Fotografie EN - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Cinema and Digital Media - Cinematography – optional subject
Study plan Cinema and Digital Media - Screenwriting – optional subject
Study plan Cinema and Digital Media - Directing – optional subject
Study plan Fotografie EN - magistr: restaurování – optional subject

Level of course unit:

Year of study

předmět nemá určen ročník studia

Semester when the course unit is delivered

zimní

Number of ECTS credits allocated:

Garant předmětu:

Jaromír ŠOFR

Name of lecturer(s):

Jaromír ŠOFR

Study Objectives:

Students will learn to understand DoP´s work on pictorial film concept which systematically uses tools of image composing (linear and tonal).

Mode of delivery:

Lecture

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Generall accomplishments.

Recommended optional programme components

Course contents:

1. Cinematography - its history, philosophy and contemporary prestige of the profession.

European Federation of the Cinematographer´s National Associations.

Genesis of the IMAGO book: „Making Pictures“ - A Century of European Cinematography.

2. Theory Depicting Communicative Systems in general.

The Film Image as a part of complex communicational system.

Still photography vs. Motion Picture Photography in its diversities.

The tools of compositional procedures and methods.

3. TV screen - presentation of the part of the relevant movie:

„I served The King of England“, dir.: Jiří Menzel, DoP: Jaromír Šofr

4. All aspects concerning the IMAGE LINEARITY.

Aspect ratio of the film image frame - still hopeless struggle for its unification.

Linear composition in the aspects of storytelling, continuity and emotional impact. Dominant lines within the image.

The control of the image perspective.

The support of the 3-Dimensional impression of the image.

5.The notion Depth of field from the technical vs. artistic point of view.

Sharpness vs. un-sharpness as a controllable tool of the image concept.

The fashionable waves.

6.The Brightness and Color structure of the motion picture image.

Employment of the dominant brightness and color values within the Image.

Screening of the slides illuminating the historical development of the „luministic“ means of expression in a fine art creativity.

Influencing value of that fine art trends. The notion: „twilight“.

7. The command of the 3-D impression of the image by recording the liight increment or decrement on a subject/object as dependent on its

distance from the light source.

All about contemporary light sources designed for movie shooting as the main cinematographer?s creative

tools.

8. Twilight representation as the image concept employing intentionally.

The limitation by the boundary (marginal) regions of the Gamma curve

of the negative stock. Low key / High Key representation.

The crucial notion: Lighting Ratio.

9.The Movement and Time phenomena in the hands of DP.

The movement of the camera without change of its space position.

The employment of the spatial camera movement. Screening of

examples of actual technical means. The time manipulation within the

shot.

10.The summary of the subject. Question / answer time.

11. Final Test - evaluation.

Study materials:

Articles given to students on their demand during the semester.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Assessment methods and criteria

Students are evaluated according to results of final test.

Language of instruction:

English

Work placement(s):

Pracovní stáž není u tohoto předmětu zavedena.

Course web page:

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2010/2011:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2010/2011:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

Fotografie EN - bakalář (optional subject)
Fotografie EN - magistr (optional subject)
Cinema and Digital Media - Cinematography (optional subject)
Cinema and Digital Media - Screenwriting (optional subject)
Cinema and Digital Media - Directing (optional subject)
Fotografie EN - magistr: restaurování (optional subject)