Directing Animated Film

Course unit code:

309RKF

Course unit title:

Mode of delivery:

zápočet

Range:

2/T

Type of course unit:

compulsory subject

Level of course unit:

Year of study

2nd year

Semester when the course unit is delivered

zimní

Number of ECTS credits allocated:

Garant předmětu:

Michaela PAVLÁTOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Michaela PAVLÁTOVÁ

Study Objectives:

Directing an animated film is a complicated artistic endeavour connecting all film elements (screenplay, artistic treatments, animation, sound, etc.) All these are closely linked and mutually influence each other. There is no single recipe for animated film but some are better than others. The aim of the course is as well, among others, to awake in the students an enthusiasm for animation and develop their thoughtiveness and creativity.

Mode of delivery:

lectures, discussion, film analyses.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

1. Directorial, screenwriting, animation and artistic skills, artistic feeling.

2. analytical skills, understanding the internal structure of a film.

3. Creativity, perception, openness to new stimuli

4. Cultural overview, general awareness of history and modern art and society.

Recommended optional programme components

No requirements for this course.

Course contents:

Course characteristics:

Introduce students to the wide spectrum of animated film, discuss and compare films, investigate the strong and weak sides of the directing concept. To instruct the to search for, find and develop their own topic.

Curriculum:

- internal film treatement, its structure, various film directing treatments

- image screenplay, storyboard ast the basis of the film.

- image composition, scenes, color, animation style.

- importance of editing. Film and scene internal rhythms

- introspective, objective, documentary animated film, etc.

- differences of independent animations and contract work, combination of the two.

- investigating the most appropriate manner of bringing and idea to a screenplay, and to a film.

- stylization of the visual styele and animation appropriate for a particular screenplay.

Study materials:

Giannalberto Bendazzi - Cartoons: One Hundred Years of Cinema Animation

Richard Williams - The Animator's Survival Kit

Paul Wells, Joanna Quinn - Basics Animation: Drawing for Animation

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

lectures, study exercises, film examples, sketches, etc..

Assessment methods and criteria

Grading is conferred based on:

- interest, activity and participation in lectures

- development of assigned tasks.

Language of instruction:

Czech

Work placement(s):

Pracovní stáž není u tohoto předmětu zavedena.

Course web page:

http://www.nfb.ca/ http://www.awn.com/ http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/ http://www.animations-cc.net/

Note:

No comments.

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
Tue	místnost 420 Učebna KAT (Lažanský palác) PAVLÁTOVÁ M. 14:50–16:25 (paralelka 1)
Fri
Thu
Fri

Datum	Den	Čas	Tutor	Místo	Notes	Č. paralelky
	Tue	14:50–16:25	PAVLÁTOVÁ M.	Učebna KAT 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:

Animovaná tvorba - bakalář (qualification subject)