Opera and Dance in Film

Subject guarantor:

Jiří MYSLÍK

Name of lecturer(s):

Jiří MYSLÍK

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The course goal is to create direct contact of HAMU Dance Dept. students with FAMU Camera Dept. students with the goal of getting to know the issues of cinematic interpretation of dance choreography.

The particulars of preparations, implementation and post-production of a televised music-drama project will be the content of the theory-creative course in which an emphasis will be place on preparations of the group television exercise „Music-Drama TV Etude.“

Mode of study:

Contact instruction classes, analysis of cinematic interpretation of a dance choreography.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Preparations of the group inter-school exercise „The Music-Drama Etude.“

Recommended optional programme components:

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Course contents:

1. Fundamental expression media of cinematography and its use in the creation of opera and dance work for television

2. Staging an opera for television - directing image approach

3. Creative potential for transforming a dance choreography into a cinematic work

4. Music and editing rhythm, image composition

5. Advantages and limits in recording opera and dance with single and multiple camera (sequential) techniques.

6. Objective angle recording, angle and space - the impression of the space on the audience in presentation.

7. Light and space - visual drama view

8. Post-production image corrections

9. Preparations of the „Music drama TV study exercise“ (implemented in the Summer semester at FAMU Studio)

- screenplay preparations

- production preparations

Recommended or required reading:

DVD video: Black & White / The Nederlands Dance Theater and Jiri Kilyan

DVD video: Swan Lake: Ballet in three acts - Tchaikovskij, Kirov Ballet, Petipa, Ivanov

Mlíkovská, Jiřina : Choreografické etudy, Praha 1964

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Classes

Assessment methods and criteria:

Credit conditions:

70% participation in the classes, screenplay submission.

Course web page:

Note:

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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
Fri
Thu	místnost 225 Učebna B KK (Lažanský palác) MYSLÍK J. 14:00–15:35 (paralelka 1)
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Thu	14:00–15:35	MYSLÍK J.	Učebna B KK Lažanský palác		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:

• Cinematography - Master (qualification subject)