Screenwriting Seminar 2

Subject guarantor:

Lubor DOHNAL

Name of lecturer(s):

Petr JARCHOVSKÝ, Lubor DOHNAL

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Adoption of the particulars of writing a film screenplay.

Mode of study:

Writing etudes, themes and synopses of future screenplays. Presentation of one's text in an open reading in class. Screenplay dramaturgical analysis. Writing of the study-year's short screenplay.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Creativity, openness to inspiration from the instructor and colleagues, sensitivity, ability to apply experience.

Recommended optional programme components:

Course contents:

Students write a medium-film length literary screenplay according to their own subject matter maximally an extent of 1 hour. Applied are knowledge and skills adopted in the Winter semester.

Recommended or required reading:

Jean Claude Carriére - VYPRÁVĚT PŘÍBĚH,

Syd Field - JAK NAPSAT DOBRÝ SCÉNÁŘ,

Andrzej Wajda - MOJE FILMY,

Walter Kerr - JAN NEPSAT HRU,

Hitchcock - Truffaut - ROZHOVORY,

Ingmar Bergman - LATERNA MAGICA,

Ingmar Bergman - OBRÁZKY,

James Mocaco - JAK ČÍST FILM,

Charles Chaplin - MŮJ ŽIVOTOPIS,

Buster Keaton - MŮJ NÁDHERNÝ SVĚT GROTESKY,

Federico Fellini - DĚLAT FILM,

Stig Björkman - WOODY O ALLENOVI,

Antonín J. Liehm - OSTŘE SLEDOVANÉ FILMY,

Josef Škvorecký - VŠICHNI TI BYSTŘÍ MUŽI A ŽENY,

Constanzo Constantini - ROZHOVORY S FELLINIM,

Eric Lax - WOODY ALLEN - HOVORY O FILMU,

Stephen King - O PSANÍ,

Jan Bernard - MALÝ LABYRINT FILMU,

Ivan Herfurt - ZLATÝ FOND SVĚTOVÉ KINEMATOGRAFIE,

Miloš Forman - CO JÁ VÍM?,

Jiří Janoušek - TŘI A PŮL POPRVÉ, TŘI A PŮL PODRUHÉ,

Jean Renoir - MŮJ ŽIVOT A MÉ FILMY,

Luis Buňuel - DO POSLEDNÍHO DECHU,

Geoff Andrew - PODIVNĚJŠÍ NEŽ RÁJ,

Sven Nykvist - ÚCTA KE SVĚTLU

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Assessment methods and criteria:

Credit is provided for class attendance and participation, completion of the course paper, semester paper, participation in dramaturgy analyses of texts of one's own and the texts of other students.

Course web page:

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2012/2013:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2012/2013:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Scenáristika a dramaturgie - bakalář (qualification subject)