Camera Work Seminar 5

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:

• Cinematography - Bachelor (qualification subject)
• Stage Design - Film and Television (M.A.) (compulsory optional subject)
• Stage Design - Film and Television (M.A.) (compulsory optional subject)