How make a film story 1

Code	Completion	Credits	Range	Semester
301JU1	Z	2	2/T

Subject guarantor:

Petr JARCHOVSKÝ

Name of lecturer(s):

Petr JARCHOVSKÝ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Acquaintance with various screenwriting approaches in creating an original feature-film script or literature adaptation into a feature film. Potential and methods of understanding film narratives through figures, environments, situations, development of plot, working with collective memory, distillation of personal experience, multiple narrative lines, multiple main figures, etc.

Mode of study:

combined classes/lecture

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Actively working in parallel with the current scripwriting workshop. This course is also includes visits - obligatory - of registered students to scriptwriting workshops lead by the instructor and, as well, is open for those interested in particular (Jarchovsky) scriptwriting workshops in the students register.

Recommended optional programme components:

Tracing examples from film works as the arise in the course, recommended readings.

Course contents:

Lecture combined with creativity classes. Various methods and creative steps in creating a film or TV script using the personal experience of the lead instructor. Instructionis based on examples and samples 1) from scripts by the lead instructor and films arising from them, 2) based on creative scriptwriting steps of other significant film pieces. (ad 1) Pějme píseň dohola, Šakalí léta, Pelíšky, Musíme si pomáhat, Pupendo, Želary, Horem pádem, Kráska v nesnázích, Medvídek, U mě dobrý, Kawasakiho růže, Občanský průkaz, Nevinnost, Líbánky, Klauni, Zahradnictví, Učitelka. (ad 2) the works of M. Forman, W. Allen, R. Altman, F. Fellini, I. Bergman, M. Leigh, J. Menzel and others that have had an influence on the works of P. Jarchovsky. Further, the course is based on Jarchovsky''s experience as a dramaturgist for Czech Television where he investigated material by graduates or students:Hotel Čtvrtá hvězda, Případ pro exorcistu, Amerikánka, Sudety, Kobry a Užovky, Vymalováno and others..

Recommended or required reading:

Jean Claude Carriére - VYPRÁVĚT PŘÍBĚH

Syd Field - JAK NAPSAT DOBRÝ SCÉNÁŘ

Andrzej Wajda - MOJE FILMY

Walter Kerr - JAK NEPSAT HRU

Hitchcock - Truffaut ? ROZHOVORY

Ingmar Bergman - LATERNA MAGICA

Ingmar Bergman - OBRÁZKY

James Monaco - JAK ČÍST FILM

Charles Chaplin - MŮJ ŽIVOTOPIS

Buster Keaton - MŮJ NÁDHERNÝ SVĚT GROTESKY

Federico Fellini - DĚLAT FILM

Stig Björkman - WOODY O ALLENOVI

Antonín J. Liehm - OSTŘE SLEDOVANÉ FILMY

Josef Škvorecký - VŠICHNI TI BYSTŘÍ MLADÍ MUŽI A ŽENY

Costanzo Constantini - ROZHOVORY S FELLINIM

Eric Lax - WOODY ALLEN - HOVORY O FILMU

Jan Fleischer - TO BY MOHL BÝT FILM

Stephen King - O PSANÍ

Jan Bernard - MALÝ LABYRINT FILMU

Ivan Herfurt - ZLATÝ FOND SVĚTOVÉ KINEMATOGRAFIE

Miloš Forman - CO JÁ VÍM?

Jiří Janoušek - TŘI A PŮL POPRVÉ, TŘI A PŮL PODRUHÉ

Jean Renoir - MŮJ ŽIVOT A MÉ FILMY

Luis Buňuel - DO POSLEDNÍHO DECHU

Geoff Andrew - PODIVNĚJŠÍ NEŽ RÁJ

Sven Nykvist - ÚCTA KE SVĚTLU

Emanuel Frynta - ZASTŘENÁ TVÁŘ POEZIE

Biographies of filmmakers: Bergman, Kieslowski, zanussi, Peckipah, Lynch, Jiří Weiss, Pavel Juráček, Věra Chytilová, Ivan Passer, Andrzej Tarkovskij.

Film narratives and scripts: 3 times an Oscar for Czech Film, Fellini, Bergman, etc.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Instruction is through analytical commentary on individual phases of scriptwriting, dramaturgy steps, genre aspects of the selected material based on existing film scripts and works. The course covers the pitfalls the scriptwriter encounters during the writing of the script and in film preparations, shooting and editing. The course, as well, covers issues arising in collaboration with the director, producer, actors and other artistic elements of the film crew.

Assessment methods and criteria:

75% attendance, active in discussion, analysis of selected examples.

Course web page:

Note:

If possible, part of the course may be attendance at current film and TV recordings or moderated discussions with some filmmakers who collaborate with the head instructor (J. Hřebejk, O. Trojan, V.Tauš, J.Prušinovský, and others).

Schedule for winter semester 2014/2015:

	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 432 Učebna KSD 432 (Lažanský palác) JARCHOVSKÝ P. 16:30–18:55 (paralelka 1)
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Mon	16:30–18:55	JARCHOVSKÝ P.	Učebna KSD 432 Lažanský palác		paralelka 1

Schedule for summer semester 2014/2015:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

Scriptwriting and Dramaturgy - Bachelor (qualification subject)