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ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS IN PRAGUE

Script Analysis 2

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
311SA2 ZK 3 2/T English summer
Subject guarantor:
Pavel JECH
Name of lecturer(s):
Pavel JECH
Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Through the intensive analysis of films, the following principles are re-examined and explained: three act story structure, plot points, turning points, the function of exposition, the catalyst, rising action, crisis, climax, culmination, resolution, main tension, theme, as well as scenes and sequences, sub-plots, double-plots, multi-plots, and internal scene structure.

Most importantly, students will learn to analyze films according the sequence method, and to employ it in their own screenwriting. Other aspects of script analysis that have been attributed to Frank Daniel will also be covered.

Mode of study:

Lecture and discussion

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Scripg Analysis 1

Recommended optional programme components:

None

Course contents:

This course is a continuation of Script Analysis I, which (with instructor´s permission only) is a prerequisite or co-requisite for all students. The course will continue to study films from a dramaturgical perspective and to closely examine the craft of screenwriting. The emphasis in this course will be to evaluate films produced in Hollywood during the late 60s and early 70s, part of what some critics have labeled the „American New Wave“.

In this course the process of evaluation will not focus on classic three act structure, but rather follow the „sequence methodology“ of the influential dramaturge and script instructor Frank Daniel, who arrived in the US from Czechoslovakia during this period of filmmaking.

Each film will be screened three times: first, in its entirety with an introduction about the film and its creators; the second and third time, in sequences accompanied by detailed analysis.

Recommended or required reading:

Aristotle. Poetics. Translated by Gerald Else. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1967.

Bordwell, David. Narration in Fiction Film. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985.

Field, Syd. Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting. New York: Dell Publishing, 1994.

Howard, David and Edward Mabley. The Tools of Screenwriting. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1995

McKee, Robert. Story. New York:Regan Books, 1997

Roemer, Michael. Telling Stories. London: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1995.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

None

Assessment methods and criteria:

Students will be expected to recognize the dramatic and narrative elements explained in class, and to present a cogent analysis of a film selected for a final paper.

Course web page:
Note:

None

Schedule for winter semester 2014/2015:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
Schedule for summer 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 207
Učebna 2

(Lažanský palác)
JECH P.
18:10–19:45
(přednášková par. 1)
Wed
Thu
Fri
Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
Tue 18:10–19:45 JECH P. Učebna 2
Lažanský palác
přednášková par. 1
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