Screenwriting Tutorial for Directors 2

Subject guarantor:

Jan FLEISCHER

Name of lecturer(s):

Jan FLEISCHER

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Basics of screenwriting in order to be able to read scripts and look for potential.

Mode of study:

Seminar

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Bringing the ideas, developing stories and re-writing scripts.

Recommended optional programme components:

Reading scripts.

Course contents:

Inspiration, characters, plot, structures of drama.

Development of a story.

Recommended or required reading:

None

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Writing and getting feedback.

Assessment methods and criteria:

Students work is evaluated continuously by tutor.

Course web page:

Note:

Jan Fleischer

Tutor, screenwriter

Jan Fleischer was born in Hereford (UK) in 1945. He studied at the Screenwriting and Dramaturgy Department of FAMU from 1964-1968 and 1969-1971. After writing a number of short stories for Czech literary magazines, he concentrated on feature films. He has had nine of his feature film scripts produced. He was Head of Screenwriting at the NFTS in Beaconsfied, United Kingdom from 1989 to 1998 and continued as a senior tutor till his retirement in 2010. In 2009 he published a book about screenwriting that is also his memoirs ?To by mohl být film? (Archa/AMU). The English version ?Of scripts and life? was then published by MFI. He is a consultant for SOURCES and the Mediterranean Film Institute, two advanced training programs for professional screenwriters in the EU. He also works as a script editor for Stephen Frears and some other directors from different countries. Since 2010, he is a screenwriting tutor for FAMU International programs.

Selected filmography:

Zbrane pro Prahu (Guns For Prague, 1974, d. Ivo Toman)

Sestapadesat Neomluvenych Hodin (56 Hours of Truancy, 1977, d. lvo Novak)

Tim Padem (Therefore, 1979,d. Karel Kovar)

Vrak (The Wreck, adaptation of R.L. Stevenson´s novel, 1980, d. lvo Toman)

Upir Z Feratu (The Vampire of Ferat, 1981, d. Juraj Herz)

Pavilon Seliem (The Pavilion of Wild Cats, 1982, d. Dušan Trancik)

Stek (The Bit Part, 1988, d. Slavo Luther)

Mikula A Mikulka (Nicolas and Little Nicolas, 1988, d. Dušan Trancik)

Parta za Milion (The Million Gang, 1990, d. Rudolf Ruzicka)

Script editing:

The Man in Gray (w./d. Pericles Hoursoglou, 1997)

Dirty Pretty Things (w. Steven Knight, d. Stephen Frears, 2002)

Eyes of Night (w./d. Pericles Hoursoglou, 2003)

Hard Goodbyes: My Father (w./d. Penny Panayotopoulou, 2003)

Eduart(w./d. Angeliki Antoniou, 2006)

The Queen (w. Peter Morgan, d. Stephen Frears, 2006)

The Building Manager(w./d. Pericles Hoursoglou 2009

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 439 Seminární učebna CDM (Lažanský palác) FLEISCHER J. 12:20–14:45 (paralelka 1) Room 439
Fri
Thu
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Tue	12:20–14:45	FLEISCHER J.	Seminární učebna CDM Lažanský palác	Room 439	paralelka 1

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Cinema and Digital Media - Directing (qualification subject)