Camera Work Seminar 8

Subject guarantor:

Vladimír SMUTNÝ

Name of lecturer(s):

Vladimír SMUTNÝ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

To prepare students for cameraman work.

Mode of study:

Presentation of instructor knowledge, film screenings and analyses.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Knowledge of Camera theory and practice.

Recommended optional programme components:

No elective requirements.

Course contents:

The higher-level education cycle covers the complete activity of the main cameraman with a view to the creation of drama and of course does not omit the sense of expert erudition nor other genres.

A particular emphasis is placed by the instructor on the cameraman's dramaturgy methods in application as laid out and presented below.

Topics:

- The screenplay and cameraman dramaturgy

- The characteristics of of B/W cinematography and creation of the lighting mood

- Studio lighting - What types of light sources do we use? - Day, Evening, Night, facial, window, lighting sources in the image, exposure - how actor and camera movement complicates all of this.

- Cameraman opportunities and styles - „Film look“, Fashionableness - Timelessness.

- Ambient lighting - reducing contrast using artificial sources - pitfalls in linking interior and exterior images, large exteriors - churces - stations - and the like.

- Exteriors - landscape - city

- Night as a particularly difficult cameraman task.

- Advertisements, documentaries, the TV medium and multimedia.

- The actor in the light, lenses and movement.

- Cameraman schools (CZ, USA, F, UK, I, G and others).

- The cameraman as a consistent technician, original distribution (mass) copies as a result of the cameraman's work.

- Theory and practical preparations for student exercises.

Recommended or required reading:

Ján Šmok:Teorie skladby fotografického obrazu

Kris Malkiewicz: Film Lighting

Gerald Millerson:Technique of Lighting for Television and Film

Journal:American Cinematographer

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Classes supplemented by film screenings

Assessment methods and criteria:

Conditions for successfull completion of the course: class participation! Course paper: the student selects a story. Prepares an cameraman's explication for the filming implementation. The purpose of the course work is the relationship beteween the verbal expression of the story or message and its resulting audiovisual artefact.

Course web page:

Note:

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Schedule for winter semester 2013/2014:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer 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 230 Sborovna KK (Lažanský palác) SMUTNÝ V. 15:40–17:15 (přednášková par. 1)
Fri
Thu
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Tue	15:40–17:15	SMUTNÝ V.	Sborovna KK Lažanský palác		přednášková par. 1

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

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