Narra - Open Workshop

Subject guarantor:

Eric ROSENZVEIG

Name of lecturer(s):

Eric ROSENZVEIG

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

This workshop started at the Prague Academy of Arts in the „Narra“ project, supported by funds from institutional support for the long-term conceptual development of research organizations provided by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport in 2014.

Mode of study:

Lecture

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

none

Recommended optional programme components:

none

Course contents:

This is organized by the Center for Audiovisual Studies of the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Arts in Prague.

The workshop, open to the public,will be comprised on case studies focused on comparing approaches to topics and issues which contribute to the further development of the Narra software and potentially initiate further collaborations. Discussions will be part of each block.

Recommended or required reading:

none

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

13:00-14:00: First block: Open Narrative and Narra software.

Eric Rosenzveig: Open Narrative project, possibilities and potential. Introduction to the NARRA project and its context including similar and related projects and a brief history of the area.

Kryštof Pešek a Michal Mocňák: Development of the Narra software which will serve as the database, and means for communications with archive collections and a tool allowing so called open narration. Technological and conceptual parameters and potential development. Part of the presentation will be a summary of the to date development of web applications / services for developing and cataloging audiovisual content.

14:00-15:00: Second block: Instiitutional academic practice

Mgr. Tomáš Čížek: Archiv Medard, Sociological data archive of SOU AV Czech Republic

Archiv Medard is a digital archive of „soft“ qualitative data from sociological and other society research . To try to bring closer the idea of „regular service“ and „qualitative research“ is not easy. Unfortunately this requires the linking of qualitative reasearch and institution archives. On one side there is the world ad hoc of selected and generated reasearch strategies and efforts to create regular work to a synergy with the research world., that is the world of qualitative research which often does not stick to any firm established rules. On the other side, the world of legal responsibility and overview of cataloged recordings, that is the world of archived information, which requires readability and clear given function rules.

Mgr. Jakub Mlynář: Center for Visual History Malach, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics of the Math and Physics Faculty of Charles University.

The Center of Visual History Malach provides researchers, instructors, students and the wider public local access to thre digital archives of oral history conversations. In particular the Archive of Visual History at the University of Southern California, Shoah Foundation, containing 52,000 interviews by witnesses and survivors of the holocaust and other genocide, recorded in 34 languages and in 58 countries. CVH Malach started at the Charles University Math and Physics Faculty in connection with a research project which deals with the potential of recognized speech and multi-language extraction of information (Multilingual Access to Large Spoken Archives). CVH Malach's activities make an effort in further development of the to date successful collaboration between Charles University in Prague and the Shoah Foundation at the University of Southern California (USC).

15:00-16:00: Third Block: personal research and work

Mgr. et Mgr. Radan Haluzík, PhD:

Radan Haluzik is a social anthropologist. He works with and lectures on the relationship of aesthetics and politics, film, art and society, aesthetics of post-modern nationalism, depicting nature and the wild and also the social lives of things, places and regions. In his field studies he have mostly focused on contemporary ethnic conflicts. As a social anthropologist and war reporter he has been in war areas in Bosnia and Hercegovina, Kosovo, Croatia, Chechnya, Georgia, Abchazia, Southern Ossettia, Armenia, The Gorni Karabach and also Afghanistan, Peruvian Amazon, Mexico Chiapas and Kurdistan. He is interested in the participants motivation of individuals-soldiers and entire national movements to enter those conflicts. Among others, as well the roll imagination plays in national aesthetics mediated through the romanticism of them in film and literature.

MgA. Hana Nováková a BcA. Martin Kohout: Documentary work

16:00-17:00 Mgr. Tomáš Doruška: Open Narration from the viewpoint of the writer plus a screening

Mgr. Tomáš Doruška is a Czech editer, documentary film director and producer. In 2001 he studied editing at FAMU. Before his professional work there was an amateur period. The ability to approach a subject and methods of observation and capture all that is fundamental and corresponding to the given issue is a stronger aspect of his films about the life of the Romy. As an editor he has taken part in 50 both feature-length and documentary projects.

Assessment methods and criteria:

100% attendance + 1 page feedback on the conference sent within a week to er@famu.cz

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:

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
16.05.2014		13:00–17:00	ROSENZVEIG E.	Projekce FAMU Lažanský palác		paralelka 1

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• 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)