Documentary: Connection Course
- Course unit code:
- 311DCC
- Course unit title:
- Documentary: Connection Course
- Mode of delivery:
- zápočet
- Range:
- 3/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
- letní
- Number of ECTS credits allocated:
- 3
- Garant předmětu:
- Vít JANEČEK
- Name of lecturer(s):
- Vít JANEČEK
- Study Objectives:
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Students will encounter and come to understand the complex issues of dealing with reality and with its representation, as they occur in the various stages of (documentary) filmmaking.
- Mode of delivery:
- Prerequisites and co-requisites:
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none.
- Recommended optional programme components
- Course contents:
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This course is focused on exploring documentary cinema within its broad range of artistic and rhetorical methods toward representing reality -- from both a theoretical and empirical standpoint. At its foundation, the course will consider the theoretical approaches of Nichols, Bruzzi and Gauthier within the context of theories of representation (mostly Jost).
Apart from screenings and subsequent reflections, the course will also include 4 small practical exercises with the purpose of examining documentary principles (technical brilliance of the resulting films will not be important, as students will often use with their mobile phones or small cameras).
Each session will consist of an introduction, a screening and a discussion of selected films, organized either historically, or in accordance with considered modes of documentary filmmaking: poetical, expository, observational, interactive, reflexive, performative. Four sessions will also include the screenings and reflections of the students? practical exercises.
- Study materials:
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Course literature:
Bill Nichols: Introduction to Documentary film (1991)
Stella Bruzzi: New Documentary: A Critical Introduction (2000)
Guy Gauthier: Le Documentaire, un autre cinéma (1999)
- Planned learning activities and teaching methods
- Assessment methods and criteria
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Three small practical exercises (50% = 10+10+20), 2-3 pages concept for final project (20%), attendance (20%)
- Language of instruction:
- English
- Work placement(s):
- Pracovní stáž není u tohoto předmětu zavedena.
- Course web page:
- Note:
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1. Modes of representation (reality ? fiction ? game/); documentary modes; initial screening
2. Poetical mode + screening; submission of 1st practical exercise and final exercise
3. screening of 1st practical exercise and discussion; poetical mode cont. + screening
4. Expository mode + screening + discussion; submission of 2nd practical exercise
5. screening of 2nd practical exercise and discussion; expository mode cont.
6. Observational mode + screening + discussion; submission of 3rd practical exercise
7. Screening of 3rd practical exercise and discussion, observational mode cont.
8. Interactive mode + screening + discussion; discussing final exercise projects
9. discussing final exercise projects; screening for inspiration connected with final exercise
10. reflexive mode + screening + discussion
11. performative mode + screening + discussion
12. screening of final exercise project and discussion
- Schedule for winter semester 2011/2012:
- The schedule has not yet been prepared
- Schedule for summer semester 2011/2012:
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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 Fri Thu Fri Datum Den Čas Tutor Místo Notes Č. paralelky Mon 09:50–12:15 JANEČEK V. Učebna 1
Lažanský palácpřednášková par. 1 - The subject is a part of the following study plans:
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- 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)