Screenings and Dialogues 5

Subject guarantor:

Name of lecturer(s):

Vladimír HENDRICH

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The aim of the screenings is a group audience experience framed with introductions and group discussions. In order to expand this on-going process an analytical text is required at the end of the semester.

Mode of study:

This course consists of screenings in the large hall at the City Library. Prior to screenings is an introduction and subsequent moderated discussion. Often there is the participation of the filmmaker. At the end of the semester exam dates are announced in which the submitted texts are evaluated.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Participation in screenings. Some presented films may be view from DVD but the real group screening and subsequenty discussion are part of the key experience in this course.

Recommended optional programme components:

None

Course contents:

This course subject matter rests in a series of heterogenic screenings and subsequent discussions with space for the participation of students of all study years and studies. Participation in discussions is possible without registering for this course in the year's study plan. Those who register, however, must fulfill the requirements for confirmation. Information about the program is announced on the Post-board on the 1st Floor of the Lazansky Palace, in FAMU current events and on the City Library web-pages.

Recommended or required reading:

Useful concepts whose better understanding may be used in writing a film analysis: http://cinepur.cz/list.php?section=20

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Screenings with introduction and discussion

Assessment methods and criteria:

CHARACTER OF THE WRITING:

The required text is an analysis of one of the screened films which focuses on the structural features of a work (that is; style, narrative form, poetry of an element) and it relationship to the topic, or plot of the film.

The text should not devote space to a description of events, facts about the film or filmmaker. The analysis will be assessed by CAS members and credit will be announced in the exam period. Part of the award of credit will be a verbal analysis and assessment of the submitted text.

EXTENT OF THE SUBMITTED TEXT:

5400 characters including spaces, that is, 3 standard pages. Exact data may be given by your text editor, ex: in MS WORD it can be found in the „File“ menu under „Characteristics“, under the the title „statistical data.“

TEXT FORMAT AND MANNER OF SUBMISSION:

Always in electronic form via email to famu saved as an .rtf file, set with 1.7cm margins and 1.5 line spacing. Name the file such: „yoursurname-filmtitle.rtf“.

Course web page:

Program  projekcí  je  publikován  na  webu  Městské  knihovny:  http://www.mlp.cz/cz/akce/

Note:

Screenings are in the large hall of the Prague City Library.

Further information:

This course is an elective for all AMU students

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	místnost MK Městská knihovna - velký sál () HENDRICH V. 19:00–21:25 (paralelka 1)
Tue
Fri
Thu
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Mon	19:00–21:25	HENDRICH V.	Městská knihovna - velký sál		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 (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Documentary Film - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Documentary Film - Bachelor (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Animation - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Scriptwriting and Dramaturgy - Bachelor (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Scriptwriting and Dramaturgy - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Film Directing - Bachelor (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Film Directing - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Cinematography - Bachelor (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Cinematography - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Production - Bachelor (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Production - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Audiovisual Studies - Bachelor (qualification subject, faculty subject, optional subject)
• Editing - Bachelor (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Editing - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Sound Design - Bachelor (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Sound Design - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Photography CZ - Bachelor (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Photography CZ - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Audiovisual Studies - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Restoring of Photogrphy (faculty subject, optional subject)