The Structure of Dramatic Works

Subject guarantor:

Jiří DUFEK

Name of lecturer(s):

Jiří DUFEK

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The course ainm is to link to the course devoted to the basics of dramaturgy concepts from the first year of bachelor's study and in particular to convince future executive producers and producers that something such as the structure and tectonics of a drama really exists and is worth knowing about and to use this knowledge.

Mode of study:

Active discussion in which student skills are reviewedd and refined.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Review and analytical skills, creativity, engagement.

Recommended optional programme components:

Course contents:

The course aim is to convince students that researching the construction of a drama film work is not only possible but also useful and exciting. Method: Mainstream, independent and school film screenings commented and analysed This demonstrates that the classical idea of exposition, topic, character, conflict, crisis, mishap, catastrophe, etc. needn't be only education subject for fragments of fossilized narrations but may reflect the inherent characteristics of a drama, its tectonics, organically developing structure, management of time and rhythm, which enables the basic features of drama to consider and communicate retroactively but also the process of it emergence.

Recommended or required reading:

ARONSON Linda: Scriptwriting Updated: New and Conventional Ways to Write for the Screen. Los Angeles: Publisher Silman-James, 2001(knihovna FAMU)

FIELD Syd: Jak napsat dobrý scénář - základy scenáristiky. Praha: Rybka Publishers, 2007

FIELD Syd: The Screenwriter´s Problem Solver. NY: DTP, 1984 (na požádání zapůjčí pedagog)

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Assessment methods and criteria:

Task:

Analysis of an assigned screenplay, minimum of 3 pages.

Assigned during the Summer semester and submitted one week prior to the announced deadline. Assessment - credit award originates in class participation, quality of the submitted paper and individual debate over that paper.

Course web page:

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2012/2013:

	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 330 Učebna KP (Lažanský palác) DUFEK J. 16:30–18:05 (přednášková par. 1)
Fri
Thu
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Tue	16:30–18:05	DUFEK J.	Učebna KP Lažanský palác		přednášková par. 1

Schedule for summer semester 2012/2013:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Produkce - bakalář (qualification subject)