Camera Work Seminar 5
Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
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304SK5 | Z | 1 | 2/T | Czech | winter |
- Subject guarantor:
- Jaromír ŠOFR
- Name of lecturer(s):
- Jaromír ŠOFR, Ivan ŠLAPETA
- Learning outcomes of the course unit:
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Preparing the students for film camera practice.
- Mode of study:
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Perception of a film work in a quality cinema hall and analysis in subsequent lectures in the classroom.
- Prerequisites and co-requisites:
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Selected assemlage of cinema works from relevant camera work.
- Recommended optional programme components:
- Course contents:
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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.
- Recommended or required reading:
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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:
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Attendance in the screening room and activity in the course.
- Course web page:
- Note:
- Schedule for winter semester 2012/2013:
- Schedule for summer semester 2012/2013:
- The schedule has not yet been prepared
- The subject is a part of the following study plans:
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- Kamera - bakalář (qualification subject)
- Scénografie - film a televize (Mgr.) (compulsory optional subject)