Radio Work 2

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Subject guarantor

Jan VEDRAL

Name of lecturer(s)

Jan VEDRAL

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Directing and dramaturgy students are familiarized with:

1. the basic audio drama and verbal genres,
2. the foundations of radio drama creation,
3. the basics of the dual broadcasting system,
4. problems of creating programming,
5. an outline of the history of Czech radio broadcasting,
6. through listening at seminars, students learn to reflect on audio depiction,
7. through small listening exercises they learn to see with their ears.

Mode of study

Lecture, listening class.

Prerequisites and co-requisites

Students are familiarized with the basic terms of theatrology and learn the foundations of theatrical dramaturgy and directing. They are prepared to differentiate between the expressive means of different media that drama has adapted to.

Course contents

Curriculum:

1. Technical possibilities of the medium and their use for content; history of audio drama.
2. Monophonic, live broadcasting, recording, montage, sterophonic sound, digital recording.
3. Czech audio dramas: Kareš, Kožík, Strejčková, Ptáček, Vyskočil, Uhde, Aškenazy, Stehlík, Fischerová, Steigerwald, Přidal, Vedral, Ruth et al.
4. Worldwide audio drama: Beckett, Dürrenmatt, Bergmann, Fellini, Bachmannová, plays from Prix Italia et al.
5. Documentary play and features.
6. Dual system of radio broadcasting.
7. Radio station programming.

Syllabus:

This cycle of lectures and seminars gradually introduces students to problems specific to radio. About half of listening is of radio classics, and the rest covers contemporary works. Students are led to listen critically as a basis for the ability to perform basic analysis of broadcasting and to write criticism of the broadcasted dramatic programme. Shorter seminar exercises familiarize them with the restricted means of expression of radio for adaptation of theatrical texts for radio or for attempts at radio dramatization. Those with a deeper interest in radio are allowed to attend lectures on making (or creating) audio plays at Czech Radio studios.

Recommended or required reading

Jan Czech: O rozhlasové hře

Alena Štěrbová: Rozhlas a slovesné umění

Jan Lopatka: Radiojournal v ko(s)mickém věku

Václav Růt: Divadlo a rozhlas

Jan a Honza Vedralovi: Jiří Horčička, Rozhlasový režisér

Assessment methods and criteria

Class participation, independent listening tasks, completion and testing of the course papers at the end of the Winter and Summer semesters.

Schedule for winter semester 2018/2019:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2018/2019:

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The subject is a part of the following study plans

• Directing and Dramaturgy for Dramatic Theatre (B.A.) (required subject)