Screenplay Analysis

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Subject guarantor:

Jiří DUFEK

Name of lecturer(s):

Jiří DUFEK

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The aim of the Summer semester of the 2nd year of bachelor's study is the learning of the basic method processes and instruments appropriate for the analysis of developing and „completed“ scripts. This course is also the first part of the Teaching Open Workshop, covering script analysis.

Mode of study:

Seminar

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Review and analytical skills, creativity, engagement.

Course contents:

Students are introduced to some standard texts and methods (see „study materials“). The main method is an intensive analysis of school, professional, emerging, executed, and unsuccessful (with subsequent comparison to the film) scripts.

Recommended or required reading:

ARONSON Linda: Scriptwriting Updated: New and Conventional Ways to Write for the Screen. Los Angeles: Publisher Silman-James, 2001(knihovna FAMU)

DANIEL F., KRATOCHVÍL M.V.: Cesta za filmovým dramatem. Praha: Orbis 1956

FIELD Syd: Jak napsat dobrý scénář - základy scenáristiky. Praha: Rybka Publishers, 2007

FIELD Syd: The Screenwriter´s Problem Solver. NY: DTP, 1984 (na požádání zapůjčí pedagog)

Assessment methods and criteria:

Task:

Analysis on the given screenplay, minimum of 3 pages.

Assigned during the Summer semester, submitted one week before the announced deadline. Assessment - award of credit originates in class participation, quality of the submitted work and individual debate over that work.

Course web page:

Note:

No note.

Further information:

This course is an elective for all AMU students

Schedule for winter semester 2016/2017:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2016/2017:

	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 434 Učebna KSD 434 (Lažanský palác) DUFEK J. 14:00–15:35 (paralelka 1)
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Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Mon	14:00–15:35	Jiří DUFEK	Učebna KSD 434 Lažanský palác		paralelka 1

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Scriptwriting and Dramaturgy - Bachelor (qualification subject, faculty subject, optional subject)