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Camera Work Seminar 5

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Course unit code:
304SK5
Course unit title:
Camera Work Seminar 5
Mode of delivery:
zápočet
Range:
2/T
Type of course unit:
Study plan Kamera - bakalář – compulsory subject
Study plan Scénografie - film a televize (Mgr.) – compulsory optional subject
Level of course unit:
Year of study
Study plan Kamera - bakalář – 3rd year
Semester when the course unit is delivered
zimní
Number of ECTS credits allocated:
1
Garant předmětu:
Jaromír ŠOFR
Name of lecturer(s):
Jaromír ŠOFR, Ivan ŠLAPETA
Study Objectives:

Preparing the students for film camera practice.

Mode of delivery:

Perception of a film work in a quality cinema hall and analysis in subsequent lectures in the classroom.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Selected assemlage of cinema works from relevant camera work.

Recommended optional programme components
Course contents:

Screenplay and cameraman script editing.

Cameraman practice potential and styles - „Film-look“ - fashionableness - timelessness.

Studio lighting - what types of lighting sources do we use - Day - Evening - Dawn - Night.

Face, window, light sources in the image, exposure and how this complicates camera movement.

Exterior lighting - technology - light sources - light proportions - correcting filters - pitfalls of image relations between interiors and exteriors - large exteriors - Church - Train station - concert hall and the like.

The night as a challenging cameraman task.

Exterior - landscape - city

Cameraman strategies in the preparation period and shooting. The creative cameraman versus the camera operator - ethical aspects in creativity.

Study materials:

J.C. Carriere, Vyprávět příběh

P. Brook, Pohyblivý bod

J. Pallasmaa, The architecture of image

P. Ward, Picture composition

V. Storaro, Writing with Light

G. Millerson, Lighting for television and film

Making Picture, A century of eurpen Cinematography

D. Samuelson´s, Manual for Cinematographers

American Cinematographer Manual

Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assessment methods and criteria

Attendance in the screening room and activity in the course.

Language of instruction:
Czech
Work placement(s):
Pracovní stáž není u tohoto předmětu zavedena.
Course web page:
Note:
Schedule for winter semester 2011/2012:
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
místnost 233
Učebna 4

(Lažanský palác)
ŠOFR J.
14:00–15:35
(paralelka 1)
Tue
Fri
Thu
Fri
Datum Den Čas Tutor Místo Notes Č. paralelky
Mon 14:00–15:35 ŠOFR J. Učebna 4
Lažanský palác
paralelka 1
Schedule for summer semester 2011/2012:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
The subject is a part of the following study plans:
Generated on 2012-6-25
Updates of the above given information can be found on http://studijniplany.amu.cz/en/predmet304SK5.html