Screenwriting Seminar 1

Subject guarantor:

Petr JARCHOVSKÝ

Name of lecturer(s):

Petr JARCHOVSKÝ, Lubor DOHNAL

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Adopting the particulars of film screenplay writing.

Mode of study:

Exercises and presentations

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Creativity, openness to inspiration from the instructor and colleagues, sensitivity, ability to apply experience.

Recommended optional programme components:

None

Course contents:

Students write from class to class literary etudes over assigned topics. They learn to narrarate using images, work with film time, short and editing connections, signifying details. Students learn to write dialogues, develop characters, consider the history of characters, develop events, create significant images, create plots and write for the film image medium which will play out in relation to time, work with the sound track and purposeful descriptions.

Recommended or required reading:

Jean Claude Carriére - VYPRÁVĚT PŘÍBĚH,

Syd Field - JAK NAPSAT DOBRÝ SCÉNÁŘ,

Andrzej Wajda - MOJE FILMY,

Walter Kerr - JAN NEPSAT HRU,

Hitchcock - Truffaut - ROZHOVORY,

Ingmar Bergman - LATERNA MAGICA,

Ingmar Bergman - OBRÁZKY,

James Mocaco - JAK ČÍST FILM,

Charles Chaplin - MŮJ ŽIVOTOPIS,

Buster Keaton - MŮJ NÁDHERNÝ SVĚT GROTESKY,

Federico Fellini - DĚLAT FILM,

Stig Björkman - WOODY O ALLENOVI,

Antonín J. Liehm - OSTŘE SLEDOVANÉ FILMY,

Josef Škvorecký - VŠICHNI TI BYSTŘÍ MUŽI A ŽENY,

Constanzo Constantini - ROZHOVORY S FELLINIM,

Eric Lax - WOODY ALLEN - HOVORY O FILMU,

Stephen King - O PSANÍ,

Jan Bernard - MALÝ LABYRINT FILMU,

Ivan Herfurt - ZLATÝ FOND SVĚTOVÉ KINEMATOGRAFIE,

Miloš Forman - CO JÁ VÍM?,

Jiří Janoušek - TŘI A PŮL POPRVÉ, TŘI A PŮL PODRUHÉ,

Jean Renoir - MŮJ ŽIVOT A MÉ FILMY,

Luis Buňuel - DO POSLEDNÍHO DECHU,

Geoff Andrew - PODIVNĚJŠÍ NEŽ RÁJ,

Sven Nykvist - ÚCTA KE SVĚTLU

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Writing etudes, subject matter, synopses of future scripts. Presentation of one's writing through public reading in class. Dramaturgical script analysis.

Assessment methods and criteria:

Credit is provided for class attendance and participation, completion of the course paper, semester paper, participation in dramaturgy analyses of texts of one's own and the texts of other students.

Course web page:

Note:

Film Analysis takes place 4 times per semester on pre-determined dates.

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
Tue	místnost 431 Učebna KSD 431 (Lažanský palác) DOHNAL L. 12:20–14:45 (paralelka 1) místnost 432 Učebna KSD 432 (Lažanský palác) JARCHOVSKÝ P. 12:20–14:45 (paralelka 2)
Fri
Thu
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Tue	12:20–14:45	DOHNAL L.	Učebna KSD 431 Lažanský palác		paralelka 1
	Tue	12:20–14:45	JARCHOVSKÝ P.	Učebna KSD 432 Lažanský palác		paralelka 2

Schedule for summer semester 2013/2014:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Scriptwriting and Dramaturgy - Bachelor (qualification subject)