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Contemporary TV Genres 1

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
305STZ1 Z 1 24/S Czech winter
Subject guarantor:
Milan KRUML
Name of lecturer(s):
Milan KRUML
Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The aim of the course is to provide an integrated overview of the contemporary used TV genres in the Czech Republic and around the world. Detailed information about its development and implementation - primarily on Czech TV but also potential direct contact of the students with creators. The lecturers will be creative producers, dramaturgists and managers in the development and production of Czech TV. The view of issues will be, of course, wider - including current trends and procedures in foreign TV in Europe and the United States.

Upon completion of this series, the student should be able to distinguish individual genres, know how to work with them in TV, what their pitfalls ar in development and implementationand what the conditions for development and creation at Czech TV are.

Mode of study:

Class structure:

Presentation - 30 min., Samples - 15 min., Discussion - 15 min.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:
Recommended optional programme components:
No further recommended optional study components.
Course contents:

Topic plan:

1. Introduction to issues. dual system and genre variety of individual types of television (public, private, non-profit, for profit private, for profit public). Lecturer: Jan Maxa, Milan Fridrich

2. Drama - basic genres and their contemporary use abroad and in the Czech Republic. Lecturer: Milan Kruml

3. Working with subject matter and development in areas of features with an emphasis on the practice in Czech TV. Lecturer: Jan Maxa

4. Daily serials and team writing systems. Lecturer: Michal Reitler

5. Contemporary forms of relationship serials and their perspectives. Lecturer: Jan Štern

6. Case study: Development and production of the series „First Republic“. Lecturer: Jan Štern

7. The police drama genre and manners of using narration, creating an original basis. Lecturer: Tomáš Feřtek

8. Case Study: Development and production of the series „First Department“. Lecturer: Tomáš Feřtek

9. The complex road to the sit-com from subject matter to the screen in the Czech Republic. Many jobs, few selected. Lecturer" Tomáš Baldýnský

10. Case Study: Development of the sit-com „The Office Guy“ (Hana and Vera). Lecturer: Zdeněk Dušek

11. Creations for children - particular approaches - Czech TV programs in the context of European productions. Lecturer: Barbara Johnson

12. Case Study - the return to family entertainment, development and production of the series „The Invisible“. Lecturer: Michal Reitler

13. New genres and procedures in feature creations (docu-drama, mini-series, etc.) and difficulties in their development. Lecturer Jan Lekeš

14. Reality as an adequate substitute for feature creations. Formats and their use in program schemes. Lecturer: Milan Kruml

15. The docu-soap as the most used form of reality TV, the particulars of its development and production, the makeup of the creative team. Lecturer: Kamila Zlatušková

16. Case Study: development and production of „Four there“, the most frequent risks in the creation of a docu-soap. Lecturer: Alena Muellerová

17. Modern TV entertainment. Issues of transfering foreign formats to the Czech Republic, conflicts among creators´ interests and the ideas of the audiences. Lecturer: Jan Maxa

18. Case study - development and production of a panel show, reception in the Czech Republic. Lecturer" Petr Muehl.

19. Satire and so called cross-genre in entertainment - development, creating the creative team, risk and fight for a place in the program scheme. Lecturer" Čestmír Kopecký

20. A one-time show or cycle - about documentaries on television and working with them as an important element of the program offerings. How to address the majority of the audience with minority topics. Lecturer: Peter Kubica

21. Television as a laboratory - what cannot be defined. Use of new combined genres - mockumentary, scripted realitz, real-life fiction and the like. Lecturer: Milan Kruml

22. Czech TV and new paths - development in the field of new genres, adopting European trends, Lecturer: Jan Maxa

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Further information:
This course is an elective for all AMU students
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
Tue
místnost 107
Učebna 1
(Lažanský palác)
KRUML M.
18:10–19:45
(přednášková par. 1)
Wed
Thu
Fri
Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
Tue 18:10–19:45 KRUML M. Učebna 1
Lažanský palác 		přednášková par. 1
Schedule for summer semester 2014/2015:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
The subject is a part of the following study plans:
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