Image narrative and its current stylization trends 1

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
304ON1 Z 2 25S Czech winter

Subject guarantor

Roman Kašparovský

Name of lecturer(s)

Roman Kašparovský

Learning outcomes of the course unit

A course on contemporary stylization trends for narrating with images which will focus, primarily, on achieving individual trends using tranfering connections between contemporary directors and their cameramen. The course is devoted to the application of analyses of the students' own work from the image narration perspective.

Mode of study

seminar

Prerequisites and co-requisites

None

Course contents

A course on contemporary stylization trends for narrating with images which will focus, primarily, on achieving individual trends using tranfering connections between contemporary directors and their cameramen.

Individual classes will be comprised of four basic parts:

  1. Presentation of individual trends, their analysis and mooring in film narration.
  2. presentation of example which are to initiate consideration of a given issue and support the previous presentation
  3. Analysis of individual cameramen (including their filmography), their approach to the given trends and comparison of working manners.
  4. guiding analysis of the students themselves and their view on a given issue.

Individual class topics:

  1. Stylization, stylistics, style and other categories of film narration

morpheme, phoneme, syntax, film language development.

division of basic trends: Authenticity, Color, Tone, format use, movement, dynamics, lighting, digitalization.

  1. Authenticity trend

Analysis of potential expression of authenticity in contemporary film.

Directors:

Jean-Pierre Dardenne a Luc Dardenne

Jacques Audiard

Paul Greengrass

Cameramen:

Barry Acroyd

Harris Savides

Oliver Wood

  1. Image movement and dynamics trends

Connected to trends in authenticity, the subsequent class is devoted to narrating a story through image movements and their trends which has recently been place on the silver screen more and more.

Directors:

Gaspar Noe

Wes Anderson

Alejandro Inárritu

Cameramen:

Stéphane Fontaine

Benoît Debie

Robert D. Yeoman

  1. Trends in image color and tone

The potential for working with color in the image has been present since the introduction of color film into the film industry, as used and developed. Without considering contemporary technical possibilities one of those continues to expand on the other hand it requires the comprehensive approach of the artist.

Directors:

Sourozenci Wachowski

Guillermo del Toro

Michael Bay

Cameramen:

Adam Arkapaw

Dan Laustsen

Seamus McGarvey

Bill Pope

  1. Various trends in image format use.

Working with individual technology formats from mobile telephone recording to IMAX technology is now common. Format selection significantly influences the stylization concept of the resulting piece and may create the film language tempo.

Directors:

James Cameron

Ang Lee

David Ayer

Robert Zemeckis

Cameramen:

Robert Elswit

Daniel Mindel

Claudio Miranda

John Toll

Roman Vasyanov

  1. Trends in image lighting approaches

With the arrival of digital technology the approach to lighting and lighting atmosphere has significantly changed

Directors:

David Fincher

Tim Burton

Terrence Malick

Cameramen:

Jeff Cronenweth

Bruno Delbonnel

Dariusz Wolski

  1. Digital and film „look“

The difference in the image appearance between film and digital has since the expansion of digital recording technology has moved from imitating the film appearance to self definition in relation to the classic film image and setting the digital look.

Director:

Michael Mann

Marc Web

Danny Boyle

Cameramen:

John Schwartzman

Dante Spinotti

Dean Semler

  1. Directors and their vision (3-4 classes)

An analysis and overview of the development of important directors in relation to their related cameramen, including demonstration of the differences in approach to individual genres and distinct image appearance in the change of cameraman.

Paolo Sorrentino Luca Bigazzi

Steve McQueen - Sean Bobbit

Park Chan Wook - Chung-hoon Chung

Coen Brothers - Roger Deakins

Christopher Nolan - Wally Phister x Hoyte van Hoytema

Krzystow Kieslowski - Slawomir Idziak

Peter Jackson - Andrew Lesnie

Darren Aronofski - Matthew Libatique

Alejandro Innaritu - Emmanuel Lubezki

Guillermo Del Toro - Guillermo Navarro

Steven Spielberg - Janusz Kaminski

Alan Parker - Michael Seresin

Nicolas Winding Refn - Newton Thomas Siegel, Larry Smith,

Clint Eastwood - Tom Stern

Denis Villeneuve - André Turpin, Roger Deakins, Bradford Young

  1. Adaptable image artists

Analysis of cameraman groups who change their original style base on the genre or because of work with a director.

Cameramen:

Greig Fraser

Phedon Papamichael

Rodrigo Prieto

  1. New names in image recording

Survey of new cameramen and their styles

Cameramen:

Natasha Braier - Neon Demon

Alex Catalán - Marshland

Mátyás Erdély - Son of Saul

David Gallego - Embrace of the Serpent

Mikhail Krichman - Leviathan

  1. Camera tradesmen

The beginning group of cameramen for whom image narrations is first and foremost a craft. Part of the class is an analysis of their important works in comparison with their standard recording of the majority of their shots.

Cameramen:

Ben Davis

Bruno Delbonnel

Mauro Fiore

Adriano Goldman

John Mathieson

Salvatore Totino

  1. Image narration in Czech cinematorgraphy

Survey of basic image approaches in Czech cinematography including emphasis on selected artists.

Cameramen:

Stanislav Milota

Jaroslav Kučera

Miroslav Ondříček

Bedřich Baťka

František Uldrich

Otto Heller

Vladimír Novotný

Recommended or required reading

ECO, Umberto, Teorie sémiotiky. Praha: Argo, 2009. ISBN 978-80-257-0157-7

GAMUT, L. T. F., Logic, language, and meaning 2 sv. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1991. ISBN 978-0-226-28088-2

SADOUL, Georges, Dějiny filmu. Praha: Orbis, 1958. 486 s.

THOMPSON, Kristin, BORDWELL, David, Dějiny filmu. Praha: Akademie múzických umění, 2007

THOMPSON, Kristin, Storytelling in the New Hollywood. New York: Harvard University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-674-83974-9.

Assessment methods and criteria

  1. completion of a critique essay on a selected work - feature film (2000 words)
  2. final analysis of camerawork of individual students.

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Further information

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