Documentary: Connection Course

Garant předmětu:

Vít JANEČEK

Jméno vyučujícího (jména vyučujících):

Vít JANEČEK

Výsledky učení dané vzdělávací složky:

Students will acquire a fully-rounded and well developed complex insight into documentary cinema from a variety of modes: representational, film-making, a practical approach to writing about subjects and proposals, by undertaking small practical exercises using only simple tools.

Forma studia:

Lecture/seminar.

Předpoklady a další požadavky:

Students are required to undertake two practical exercises utilising only mobile phones or simple digital cameras.

Doporučené volitelné vzdělávací složky:

Participation on FAMU module: Creative Documentary Today; 25 ? 28 October (part of Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival) is recommended.

Obsah kurzu:

The course focuses on exploring documentary cinema from a broad range of artistic and rhetorical standpoints examining the representation of reality, via both a theoretical and empirical base. As its foundation the course considers the theoretical approaches of Nichols, Bruzzi and Gauthier within the context of theories of representation (especially Jost).

Apart from screenings and subsequent reflections, the course will also include 2 small practical exercises with the purpose of examining documentary principles (the level of technical accomplishment within the resulting films is not overly important, as students will often use either mobile phones or small digital cameras).

Each session consists of an introduction, a screening and a discussion of selected films, organized either historically, or in accordance with considered modes of documentary film-making: poetical, methods of exposition, observational, interactive, reflective/reflexive, performance based. Two sessions will also include subsequent screenings and discussion of the students' practical exercises.

Doporučená nebo povinná literatura:

Course literature:

Bill Nichols: Introduction to Documentary film (1991)

Stella Bruzzi: New Documentary: A Critical Introduction (2000)

Guy Gauthier: Le Documentaire, un autre cinéma (1999)

Plánované vzdělávací činnosti a výukové metody:

Lectures, screenings of examples, viewing and discussing student's excersises.

Hodnoticí metody a kritéria:

Two small practical exercises utilising either a mobile phone or a small digital camera. Technical quality is not overly important as we will be exploring approaches and principles (30% = 10+20), 2-3 pages of either a film analysis or a concept for a documentary (30%), attendance (40%).

Webová stránka předmětu:

Poznámka:

0. Outline on the course.

1. Modes of representation (reality / fiction / game-play); documentary modes; the relationship between various cinematic elements within documentary film, the use of logic within both narration/narrative and non-narrative forms

2. Poetical mode + key historical approaches + screening; submission of 1st practical exercise

3. Poetical mode + contemporary examples

4. Expository mode + key historical approaches + screening

5. Observational mode + screening + discussion

6. Watching 1st practical exercise, submission of 2nd practical exercise, Interactive mode + screening + discussion;

7. Reflexive mode + screening + discussion

8. Reflexive mode + screening + discussion

9. Watching 2nd practical exercise; performance based mode + screening examples + discussion

10. Submission of written essay or subject, performance based mode + screening examples + discussion

11. Final session, feedback on essays or topics

Rozvrh na zimní semestr 2013/2014:

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Datum	Den	Čas	Vyučující	Místo	Poznámky	Č. paralelky
	Út	14:50–16:25	JANEČEK V.	Učebna 1 Lažanský palác		přednášková par. 1

Rozvrh na letní semestr 2013/2014:

Rozvrh zatím není připraven

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