How make a film story 2
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| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 301JU2 | Z | 2 | 2T | Czech |
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
Acquaintance with various screenwriting approaches in creating an original feature-film script or literature adaptation into a feature film. Potential and methods of understanding film narratives through figures, environments, situations, development of plot, working with collective memory, distillation of personal experience, multiple narrative lines, multiple main figures, etc.
Mode of study
Combined classes/lecture
Prerequisites and co-requisites
Actively working in parallel with the current scripwriting workshop. This course is also includes visits - obligatory - of registered students to scriptwriting workshops lead by the instructor and, as well, is open for those interested in particular (Jarchovsky) scriptwriting workshops in the students register.
Course contents
Lecture combined with creativity classes. Various methods and creative steps in creating a film or TV script using the personal experience of the lead instructor. Instructionis based on examples and samples 1) from scripts by the lead instructor and films arising from them, 2) based on creative scriptwriting steps of other significant film pieces. (ad 1) Pějme píseň dohola, Šakalí léta, Pelíšky, Musíme si pomáhat, Pupendo, Želary, Horem pádem, Kráska v nesnázích, Medvídek, U mě dobrý, Kawasakiho růže, Občanský průkaz, Nevinnost, Líbánky, Klauni, Zahradnictví, Učitelka. (ad 2) the works of M. Forman, W. Allen, R. Altman, F. Fellini, I. Bergman, M. Leigh, J. Menzel and others that have had an influence on the works of P. Jarchovsky. Further, the course is based on Jarchovsky''s experience as a dramaturgist for Czech Television where he investigated material by graduates or students:Hotel Čtvrtá hvězda, Případ pro exorcistu, Amerikánka, Sudety, Kobry a Užovky, Vymalováno and others..
Recommended or required reading
Jean Claude Carriére - VYPRÁVĚT PŘÍBĚH
Syd Field - JAK NAPSAT DOBRÝ SCÉNÁŘ
Andrzej Wajda - MOJE FILMY
Walter Kerr - JAK NEPSAT HRU
Hitchcock - Truffaut ? ROZHOVORY
Ingmar Bergman - LATERNA MAGICA
Ingmar Bergman - OBRÁZKY
James Monaco - JAK ČÍST FILM
Charles Chaplin - MŮJ ŽIVOTOPIS
Buster Keaton - MŮJ NÁDHERNÝ SVĚT GROTESKY
Federico Fellini - DĚLAT FILM
Stig Björkman - WOODY O ALLENOVI
Antonín J. Liehm - OSTŘE SLEDOVANÉ FILMY
Josef Škvorecký - VŠICHNI TI BYSTŘÍ MLADÍ MUŽI A ŽENY
Costanzo Constantini - ROZHOVORY S FELLINIM
Eric Lax - WOODY ALLEN - HOVORY O FILMU
Jan Fleischer - TO BY MOHL BÝT FILM
Stephen King - O PSANÍ
Jan Bernard - MALÝ LABYRINT FILMU
Ivan Herfurt - ZLATÝ FOND SVĚTOVÉ KINEMATOGRAFIE
Miloš Forman - CO JÁ VÍM?
Jiří Janoušek - TŘI A PŮL POPRVÉ, TŘI A PŮL PODRUHÉ
Jean Renoir - MŮJ ŽIVOT A MÉ FILMY
Luis Buňuel - DO POSLEDNÍHO DECHU
Geoff Andrew - PODIVNĚJŠÍ NEŽ RÁJ
Sven Nykvist - ÚCTA KE SVĚTLU
Emanuel Frynta - ZASTŘENÁ TVÁŘ POEZIE
Biographies of filmmakers: Bergman, Kieslowski, zanussi, Peckipah, Lynch, Jiří Weiss, Pavel Juráček, Věra Chytilová, Ivan Passer, Andrzej Tarkovskij.
Film narratives and scripts: 3 times an Oscar for Czech Film, Fellini, Bergman, etc.
Assessment methods and criteria
75% attendance, active in discussion, analysis of selected examples.
Note
If possible, part of the course may be attendance at current film and TV recordings or moderated discussions with some filmmakers who collaborate with the head instructor (J. Hřebejk, O. Trojan, V.Tauš, J.Prušinovský, and others).
Further information
No schedule has been prepared for this course