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Camera Work Seminar 5

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
304SK5 Z 1 2/T Czech winter
Subject guarantor:
Jaromír ŠOFR
Name of lecturer(s):
Jaromír ŠOFR, Ivan ŠLAPETA
Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Preparing the students for film camera practice.

Mode of study:

Perception of a film work in a quality cinema hall and analysis in subsequent lectures in the classroom.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Selected assemlage of cinema works from relevant camera work.

Recommended optional programme components:

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Course contents:

Screenplay and cameraman script editing.

Cameraman practice potential and styles - „Film-look“ - fashionableness - timelessness.

Studio lighting - what types of lighting sources do we use - Day - Evening - Dawn - Night.

Face, window, light sources in the image, exposure and how this complicates camera movement.

Exterior lighting - technology - light sources - light proportions - correcting filters - pitfalls of image relations between interiors and exteriors - large exteriors - Church - Train station - concert hall and the like.

The night as a challenging cameraman task.

Exterior - landscape - city

Cameraman strategies in the preparation period and shooting. The creative cameraman versus the camera operator - ethical aspects in creativity.

Recommended or required reading:

J.C. Carriere, Vyprávět příběh

P. Brook, Pohyblivý bod

J. Pallasmaa, The architecture of image

P. Ward, Picture composition

V. Storaro, Writing with Light

G. Millerson, Lighting for television and film

Making Picture, A century of eurpen Cinematography

D. Samuelson´s, Manual for Cinematographers

American Cinematographer Manual

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Classes

Assessment methods and criteria:

Attendance in the screening room and activity in the course.

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
místnost 233
Učebna 4

(Lažanský palác)
ŠOFR J.
14:00–15:35
(paralelka 1)
Tue
Fri
Thu
Fri
Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
Mon 14:00–15:35 ŠOFR J. Učebna 4
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:
Generated on 2014-06-18
Updates of the above given information can be found at http://sp.amu.cz/en/predmet304SK5.html