Analysing and Setting Up Gags
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 309ASG | Z | 3 | 3/D | Czech | winter |
- Subject guarantor:
- Štefan CAPKO
- Name of lecturer(s):
- Štefan CAPKO
- Learning outcomes of the course unit:
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An understanding of the fundamental principles of building a gag in film and theatre from the simple to the well-structured.
- Mode of study:
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Intensive instruction in a module taking place a UVS Poněšice. Practical experience in building gags is part of the instruction.
- Prerequisites and co-requisites:
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This course is intended for all students who have at least simple directorial or acting experience in filmo or theatre.
Group maximum is 15 students.
- Recommended optional programme components:
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No prerequisites for this course.
- Course contents:
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Gag je jedním ze základních vyjadřovacích prvků animovaného filmu. Tento výukový modul se zabývá teorií i praktickou realizací gagu.
Analýza a stavba gagu je předmět, který na základě teoretických informací o postupech práce gagmanů v několika filmových formách, přivede studenty k vlastní praktické zkušenosti s vizuální komedií.
Osnova:
Zlatá éra americké němé filmové grotesky
Pocit směšného v realitě
Pojem GAG a jeho formy
Gagmani a herci
Analýza grotesek nejvýznamějších komiků
Rozvoj komických forem během celé filmové historie
Originalita interpretace
Kapacita gagu a její síle odpovídající čas provedení
- praktické kamerové cvičení před i za kamerou
- literární scénář strukturovaného gagu
- Recommended or required reading:
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American Grotesque film files from the golden era of silent film
- Planned learning activities and teaching methods:
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Film presentations. Theory analyses. Writer-interpreter exercises.
- Assessment methods and criteria:
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Evaluation criteria are originaltiy, accuracy, creativity and intuition.
- Course web page:
- Note:
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Group of 15 students max. This will be an adventurous journey into the depths of visual comedy from when it was the real king of film and though to surrealistic humor.
Come and see that the work of a gagman is an anarchistically simple and loaded with joy and great potential for entertaining a wide audience.
- Schedule for winter semester 2013/2014:
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Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel 07.01.2014 – CAPKO Š. 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:
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- Animation - Master (optional subject)
- Documentary Film - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
- Documentary Film - Bachelor (optional subject)
- Animation - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
- Scriptwriting and Dramaturgy - Bachelor (optional subject)
- Scriptwriting and Dramaturgy - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
- Film Directing - Bachelor (optional subject)
- Film Directing - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
- Cinematography - Bachelor (optional subject)
- Cinematography - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
- Production - Bachelor (optional subject)
- Production - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
- Audiovisual Studies - Bachelor (optional subject)
- Editing - Bachelor (optional subject)
- Editing - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
- Sound Design - Bachelor (optional subject)
- Sound Design - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
- Photography CZ - Bachelor (optional subject)
- Photography CZ - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
- Audiovisual Studies - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
- Restoring of Photogrphy (optional subject)