Camera Work Seminar 8

Display Schedule

Code	Completion	Credits	Range	Language Instruction	Semester
304SEK8	Z	2	2T	Czech	summer

Subject guarantor

Petr HOJDA

Name of lecturer(s)

Petr HOJDA

Learning outcomes of the course unit

To prepare students for cameraman work.

Mode of study

Presentation of instructor knowledge, film screenings and analyses.

Prerequisites and co-requisites

Knowledge of Camera theory and practice.

Course contents

The higher-level education cycle covers the complete activity of the main cameraman with a view to the creation of drama and of course does not omit the sense of expert erudition nor other genres.

A particular emphasis is placed by the instructor on the cameraman's dramaturgy methods in application as laid out and presented below.

Topics:

The screenplay and cameraman dramaturgy
The characteristics of of B/W cinematography and creation of the lighting mood
Studio lighting - What types of light sources do we use? - Day, Evening, Night, facial, window, lighting sources in the image, exposure - how actor and camera movement complicates all of this.
Cameraman opportunities and styles - „Film look“, Fashionableness - Timelessness.
Ambient lighting - reducing contrast using artificial sources - pitfalls in linking interior and exterior images, large exteriors - churces - stations - and the like.
Exteriors - landscape - city
Night as a particularly difficult cameraman task.
Advertisements, documentaries, the TV medium and multimedia.
The actor in the light, lenses and movement.
Cameraman schools (CZ, USA, F, UK, I, G and others).
The cameraman as a consistent technician, original distribution (mass) copies as a result of the cameraman's work.
Theory and practical preparations for student exercises.

Assessment methods and criteria

Conditions for successfull completion of the course: class participation! Course paper: the student selects a story. Prepares an cameraman's explication for the filming implementation. The purpose of the course work is the relationship beteween the verbal expression of the story or message and its resulting audiovisual artefact.

Note

Schedule for winter semester 2018/2019:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

	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 230 Room No. 230 (Lažanský palác) HOJDA P. 15:40–17:15 (lecture parallel1)
Wed
Thu
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Tue	15:40–17:15	Petr HOJDA	Room No. 230 Lažanský palác		lecture parallel1

The subject is a part of the following study plans

Cinematography - Master-1819 (required subject)
Cinematography - Master-1819 (required subject)