Directing Animated Film

Subject guarantor:

Michaela PAVLÁTOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Michaela PAVLÁTOVÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Directing an animated film is a complicated artistic endeavour connecting all film elements (screenplay, artistic treatments, animation, sound, etc.) All these are closely linked and mutually influence each other. There is no single recipe for animated film but some are better than others. The aim of the course is as well, among others, to awake in the students an enthusiasm for animation and develop their thoughtiveness and creativity.

Mode of study:

lectures, discussion, film analyses.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

1. Directorial, screenwriting, animation and artistic skills, artistic feeling.

2. analytical skills, understanding the internal structure of a film.

3. Creativity, perception, openness to new stimuli

4. Cultural overview, general awareness of history and modern art and society.

Recommended optional programme components:

No requirements for this course.

Course contents:

Course characteristics:

Introduce students to the wide spectrum of animated film, discuss and compare films, investigate the strong and weak sides of the directing concept. To instruct the to search for, find and develop their own topic.

Curriculum:

- internal film treatement, its structure, various film directing treatments

- image screenplay, storyboard ast the basis of the film.

- image composition, scenes, color, animation style.

- importance of editing. Film and scene internal rhythms

- introspective, objective, documentary animated film, etc.

- differences of independent animations and contract work, combination of the two.

- investigating the most appropriate manner of bringing and idea to a screenplay, and to a film.

- stylization of the visual styele and animation appropriate for a particular screenplay.

Recommended or required reading:

Giannalberto Bendazzi - Cartoons: One Hundred Years of Cinema Animation

Richard Williams - The Animator's Survival Kit

Paul Wells, Joanna Quinn - Basics Animation: Drawing for Animation

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

lectures, study exercises, film examples, sketches, etc..

Assessment methods and criteria:

Grading is conferred based on:

- interest, activity and participation in lectures

- development of assigned tasks.

Course web page:

http://www.nfb.ca/ http://www.awn.com/ http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/ http://www.animations-cc.net/

Note:

No comments.

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	místnost 420 Učebna KAT (Lažanský palác) PAVLÁTOVÁ M. 14:50–16:25 (paralelka 1)
Fri
Thu
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Tue	14:50–16:25	PAVLÁTOVÁ M.	Učebna KAT 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:

• Animation - Master (qualification subject)