Television Seminar

Subject guarantor:

Ivo MATHÉ

Name of lecturer(s):

Ivo MATHÉ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Broad knowledge of the development of television broadcast, entreprenurialship and programmes including digitalization in an international context.

Mode of study:

Lectures, dialogue, contact style instruction, papers, audio-visual aids and analysis of media examples.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Recommended optional programme components:

Course contents:

Television remains a phenomenon. The expected attenuation because of the internet, the communication highway and complete industrialization of broadcast has slowed down. We chronicle the course of the attenuation and development. It is impossible to overlook the dynamic rise of globally connected media, particularly the internet, enabling the so-called endless choice of information and programs. As well, the number of television channels in the last 20 years has multiplied and continues so considering the conversion to digital Television signal distribution, over land, cable and satellite.

The quantitative growth of that on offer, simplification of television production and dispatch, cost pressures and competition participate in a general reduction in quality of content and professionalism. The space for a basic and broadly educated generation in all branches of audiovisual enterprise and art is not shutting down, quite the opposite. This is the direction FAMU should consider.

In North America and in Europe, professionalness of audiovisual skills is being cultivated with varied success in universities, institutions and professional associations. The scholastic furnishing of all involved in the cycle, beginning with an idea, continuing with creation, production and concluding with exploitation is desparately needed. A broad cultural overview, legal and economic education, communications preparations, analytical skills and, most of all, a consciousness of the context all belong in the required category. This is the target that FAMU students need to be prepared for.

Students must, in a dialogue with the instructors, prove their abilites in issues. No exact data, numbers or technical details will be asked for but rather a substantial overview of the profession, analytical skills and a consideration of significant participation in courses and readings of recommended literature.

1) The historical development of TV broadcast from a global perspective, domestic particulars.

2) Development of broadcast regulation, reasons, limits, traditions - in the world, in Europe, at home.

3) The state and broadcast, public states, distrust of the state, dismantiling of the state.

4) Development of the legal framework of TV broadcast, potential, broader issues, conflicts with copyright protection.

5) Development of TV broadcast financing, resources, income, enterprises - internationally and at home

6) TV broadcast as a public service, the European model, alternatives, cohabitation.

7) TV broadcast as an enterprise, various types of global development.

8) Cable and Satellite signal propagation at home and internationally

9) Convergence

10) Digitalization of production and propagation - internationally and at home.

11) Progressive motives for development and change in TV broadcast.

12) The economic consequences of digital propagation.

13) Our and Europe's situation, social implications.

Recommended or required reading:

Blažek, Bohuslav,Tváří v tvář obrazovce, Slon, Praha 1995

Bourdieu, Pierre,O televizi, Doplněk, Brno 2002, (Sur la télévision, Liber-Raison d´agir 1996)

Duspiva, Zdeněk, Digitalizace jako budoucnost elektronických médií, Votobia, Praha 2004

McLuhan, Marshall H., Jak rozumět médiím, Odeon, Praha 1991

Montesquieu, Charles - Louis de Secondat, O duchu zákonů, Aleš Čeněk, Dobrá Voda 2003

Raboy, Marc, Media, Crisis and Democracy, SAGE Publications, London 1992

Raboy, Marc, Public Broadcasting for the 21st Century, University of Luton Press, Luton 1996

Šmíd, Milan, Média, internet, TV Nova a já, ISV, Praha 2000

kolektiv autorů, (Prvních) 10 let České televize, Praha 2002

Ročenky Rady pro rozhlasové a televizní vysílání 1993-2009

Ročenky České televize 1992-2009

DIFFUSION 1997-2004, EBU Ženeva

EBU viewpoint www.ebu.ch

Svět televize 1998-2001, Česká televize Praha

Television Business International, 1998-2004

Yearbook EBU, 1999-2009, EBU Geneva

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Assessment methods and criteria:

Credit is awarded based on:

Activity in lectures, exercises and labs

Elaboration of the semester paper

Successfull completion of an oral test.

Course web page:

Note:

This course may be completed in the winter semester of the 1st or 2nd year of study.

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 334 Učebna KP (Lažanský palác) MATHÉ I. 10:40–12:15 (paralelka 1)
Fri
Thu
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Tue	10:40–12:15	MATHÉ I.	Učebna KP Lažanský palác		paralelka 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 - magistr (qualification subject)