Storyboarding

Subject guarantor:

Vít JANEČEK

Name of lecturer(s):

Vít JANEČEK

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Block aimed at practical skills of making storyboard for fiction film.

Mode of study:

A lecture with a small practical excersise.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Students are asked to bring an idea or a storyboard for a short film „On the board“, „Pin ups“, Darks of the Paper Film etc.

Recommended optional programme components:

Course contents:

Lecture:

- film formats

- possible storyboards styles and languages

- drawing of the storyboards

- technicalities of the storyboards

- space in feature films storyboards

- camera movement in storyboards

- costumes in storyboards

- architecture, exterieur and interiers in storyboards

- film effects in storyboards

- animatics

- films made of „the storyboarding“ (Oshima, Bill Plymton, Paul Fierlinger)

- cartoons and comic books background

- comics films now

- Czech comics films tradition

- panel on comics films tradition

Practical excersise on the spot:

- making of the storyboard

- shooting following the storyboard

Recommended or required reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storyboard

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Assessment methods and criteria:

Attendance 100 percent, small practical excersise.

Course web page:

Note:

October 12

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:

• Cinema and Digital Media - Directing (qualification subject)