Klusák: building a unique style of film speech

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Subject guarantor:

Vít KLUSÁK

Name of lecturer(s):

Vít KLUSÁK

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Practical advice for building personal style

Mode of study:

Classes, collaboration

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

None

Course contents:

Vít Klusák practical for the advanced:

„Documentary film is primarily film and film is primarily a story. It has a narrator or author. That is valued because the author has gone into the world to learn it and understand it with his own eyes, mine and heart and this experience is recast into film. The more personal and distinctive that world is understood, the more authentic it is, the more precise a response it creates. As soon as it tends toward the objective and truth in a common understanding of the purpose, then only nosnsense is recorded. He is lying to himself and his audience.“

Klusák's MODULE with the participation of his colleagues - Kruliš, Sejk a Stuchlík:

ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY REPORT with consideration of the construction of distinctive style in film language

Module program:

Friday 8.12.17, Documentary Dept. classroom 217

9:50-13:05

The first part of the module is dedicated to a collection of works and recommendations on how to create a non-journalistic film report, which has a distinctive cinematic style.

We will cover preparations before shooting, focused research; how set the topic, but also the shooting itself (primarily how to percieve the situation in another and more surprising way than usual).

Part of the presentation will be commented examples for older works by the lecturer. The possibilities of recording authentic live situations will be clearly illustrated in two examples with 2 (to 3) cameras „on location.“

14:00 - 17:15

The second half of the module will be presentation of a practical recording with 2 cameras thanks to the participation of the cameramen,Adam Kruliš and Adam Sejk with whom Klusák worked on film and television programs. We demonstrate how a once-in-a-lifetime can be filmed as it happens: how to locate the cameras; how to communicate; where and how to „safely“ change the perspective and width of the shot; what to shoot ex post. Adam Kruliš, using a small set of available LED lights constructs 2-3 natural lighting atmospheres in which it is „convenient“ to record a situation in an interior. The sound engineer, Petr Stuchlík explains the nature of placing a microport under clothing to get the most useful sound recording. The will, of course, be time for questions.

Vít Klusák (*24, March ,1980 - ) is a Czech film director, cameraman and producer. He studied photography at the Secondary Graphics School in Prague, on Hellichov Street with Prof. Velikoborsky. He exhibited two times (Plesejme, Klub Mlejn 1988 and Etude, Duncan Center 1999). With Filip Remunda, in 2003 he founded and has lead the film company, Hypermarket Film s.r.o., which focuses on productions of original documentary films. His current most popular projects are: a series of original documentaries for Czech Television - Czech Journal, Sixth Row Yes, Boss! for Television Prima and the documentary Matrix AB.

He graduated from the Documentary Dept. of FAMU (in the workshop of Karel Vachek and Helena Třeštíkova). Since Oct. 2006 he has lectured on the Fundamentals of Film Language at FAMU and in Jan of 2011 became the lead of the First year documentary filmmakers workshop. His films systematically return to the third position between creation and society. With Filip Remund, he shot the documentary film Czech Dream (2004) and the film received awards at many film festivals both domestic and abroad. It has been shown on 24 broadcast networks from around the world. A film about American radar in Bohemia, „Czech Peace“ (2010) had its world premier at the Michael Moore festival in Traverse City. The feature-length documentary grotesque „All for a Good World and Nosovic“ won the Film Theorists' and Critics' Award for best documentary (Czech Lion) in 2011.

Filmography:

2017 Svět podle Daliborka

2015 Matrix AB

2015 Český žurnál - Má vlast Afghánistán

2014 Český žurnál - Dělníci bulváru

2013Český žurnál - Spřízněni přímou volbou

2013 Český žurnál - Svobodu pro Smetanu

2013 Český žurnál - Život a smrt v Tanvaldu

2013 Dobrý řidič Smetana

2011 Film jako Brno

2010 Český mír

2010 Vše pro dobro světa a Nošovic

2008 Vánoce v Bosně

2004 Český sen

2003 Vlast a Burian

2001 Ocet

2000 Digestive

Recommended or required reading:

examples of Vít Klusák's works

Assessment methods and criteria:

90% attendance and classroom participation

Course web page:

Note:

None

Schedule for winter semester 2017/2018:

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
08.12.2017		09:50–17:15	Vít KLUSÁK	Room No. 217 Lažanský palác		paralelka 1

Schedule for summer semester 2017/2018:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans: