Radio Work 1

Subject guarantor:

Jan VEDRAL

Name of lecturer(s):

Jan VEDRAL

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Directing and dramaturgy students are familiarized with:

1) the basic audio drama and verbal genres,

2) the foundations of radio drama creation,

3) the basics of the dual broadcasting system,

4) problems of creating programming,

5) an outline of the history of Czech radio broadcasting;

6) through listening at seminars, students learn to reflect on audio depiction;

7) through small listening exercises they learn to see with their ears.

Mode of study:

Lecture, listening class

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Students are familiarized with the basic terms of theatrology and learn the foundations of theatrical dramaturgy and directing. They are prepared to differentiate between the expressive means of different media that drama has adapted to.

Recommended optional programme components:

Independent recording listening analyis from DAMU library assets.

Course contents:

Curriculum:

1) Technical possibilities of the medium and their use for content; history of audio drama;

2) Monophonic, live broadcasting, recording, montage, sterophonic sound, digital recording;

3) Czech audio dramas: Kareš, Kožík, Strejčková, Ptáček, Vyskočil, Uhde, Aškenazy, Stehlík, Fischerová, Steigerwald, Přidal, Vedral, Ruth et al.

4) Worldwide audio drama: Beckett, Dürrenmatt, Bergmann, Fellini, Bachmannová, plays from Prix Italia et al.

5) Documentary play and features

6) Dual system of radio broadcasting

7) Radio station programming

Syllabus:

This cycle of lectures and seminars gradually introduces students to problems specific to radio. About half of listening is of radio classics, and the rest covers contemporary works. Students are led to listen critically as a basis for the ability to perform basic analysis of broadcasting and to write criticism of the broadcasted dramatic programme. Shorter seminar exercises familiarize them with the restricted means of expression of radio for adaptation of theatrical texts for radio or for attempts at radio dramatization. Those with a deeper interest in radio are allowed to attend lectures on making (or creating) audio plays at Czech Radio studios.

Recommended or required reading:

Jan Czech: O rozhlasové hře

Alena Štěrbová: Rozhlas a slovesné umění

Jan Lopatka: Radiojournal v ko(s)mickém věku

Václav Růt: Divadlo a rozhlas

Jan a Honza Vedralovi: Jiří Horčička, Rozhlasový režisér

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Lecture, listening class. Listening class (moderated discussions on the case study listenings).

Assessment methods and criteria:

Class participation, independent listening tasks, completion and testing of the course papers at the end of the Winter and Summer semesters.

Course web page:

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2013/2014:

	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	místnost K330 Učebna (Karlova 26, Praha 1) 12:30–14:00 (paralelka 1)
Tue
Fri
Thu
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Mon	12:30–14:00		Učebna Karlova 26, Praha 1		paralelka 1

Schedule for summer semester 2013/2014:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Directing and Dramaturgy for Dramatic Theatre (B.A.) (compulsory subject)
• Directing and Dramaturgy for Alternative and Puppet Theatre (B.A.) (compulsory subject)