Mentor Workshop: Production Team Studies 2

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Subject guarantor:

Peter Badač

Name of lecturer(s):

Peter Badač

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

After the course concludes (Spring term) students should be able to create a simple budget, shooting plan and production reports.

Mode of study:

Seminar, weekly meetings with the mentor

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

None

Recommended optional programme components:

Active participation on FAMU International projections (Feb, May) as well as participation on pitchings.

Course contents:

Workshop focuses mostly on current practice and workflow in production of student movies.

They will receive information about the film production, workflow and the vocabulary used in film industry on the examples from the work of other students and film professionals.

Recommended or required reading:

None

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

- introduction to Studio FAMU and its departments and employees

- introduction to film production (basic info about development, preproduction, production and postproduction)

- preproduction (creating of shooting plan, call sheets, casting, location scouting etc)

- production (intro to technical equipment)

- production (intro to shooting)

- preparation of the simple production budget

- postproduction and distribution

- main crew and the relations

- crew departments (production, director, camera, art, sound, postproduction)

- discussion about the short movies (script analysis, budgeting, creating of shooting plan)

- excursion to Barrandov Studios

- differences between genres (fiction, documentary, animation)

- producer and production manager

- pitching and presentation of the projects

- current situation in Czech cinematography (law, institutions)

Assessment methods and criteria:

The active participation and mutual help between the students is expected. They should discuss and share their own experience with their colleagues.

Students are evaluated continuously during the semester by mentor.

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Note:

Peter Badač

He has a degree from The Faculty of Film and Television of the Academy of Music and Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague, specialization Film and TV Production. In 2010 he spent on a student exchange in HFF „Konrad Wolf“ in Potsdam - Babelsberg, Germany.

He has many experiences from the various types of companies - televisions, advertisement companies, film productions.. He worked for a production company D.N.A. that is very famous for their TV series The City of Shadows or How I Survive. He worked also in TV Markiza and TV Nova in Prague. Now he is running his own production company nutprodukce based in Prague.

Schedule for winter semester 2014/2015:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2014/2015:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

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