Screenplay Analysis

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
301AS Z 2 2T Czech summer

Subject guarantor

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.

Note

No note.

Further information

This course is an elective for all AMU students

Schedule for winter semester 2018/2019:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2018/2019:

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
room 344
Room No. 7
(Lažanský palác)
DUFEK J.
17:20–20:35
(parallel1)
Wed
Thu
Fri
Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
Tue 17:20–20:35 Jiří DUFEK Room No. 7
Lažanský palác 		parallel1

The subject is a part of the following study plans