Mentor Workshop: Screenwriting 2

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
311MWS2 ZK 5 4/W English summer

Subject guarantor

Eva PAPOUŠKOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s)

Eva PAPOUŠKOVÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students will encounter the demands and needs of producing original creative material as script for film and moving image. Students will come to understand and appreciate the demands and responsibilities (emotional, social, artistic, political, economic, cultural) placed on them as writers. In short - writers write!

Mode of study

Seminar

Prerequisites and co-requisites

NOne

Course contents

Creativity and the writer within the discipline of screenwriting and writing for the moving image. A practical approach to writing a short film, a feature treatment (including fully drafted acts) and a series of small exercises for use by cinematographers.

Description

The course is focused on the writer as source, but also the writer as an artist acutely aware of the roles, needs, demands and opportunities presented by other art forms and their practitioners.

Recommended or required reading

(see individual units - some material will be presented in class as requiring immediate response)

Assessment methods and criteria

Attendance (50%) Production of unit exercise pieces (50%). Stated simply - students attend, and students write.

Note

1 Why write - Examinations of motivation, expression and reflection in the work of the screen writer. Launch of expected major outcomes (short film and treatment).

2 Present contexts for writers. Examination of present and historical contexts for writers within personal, social and economic contexts. Expected layouts.

3 Writing for screen 1 Writing for no dialogue. Camera as narrator. Camera as voyeur.

Screen as mask ? revelation or not?

4 Writing for screen 2 Writing monologue.

5 Writing for screen 3 Writing dialogue.

6 Narrator/Narration

7 Defining Character 1

8 Landscape and environment as character and setting.

9 Structure and chronology.

10 Music as character.

11 Individual and group mentorship. Review of feature and treatment progress.

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
Wed
room
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PAPOUŠKOVÁ E.
15:40–17:15
(parallel1)
Thu
Fri
Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
Wed 15:40–17:15 Eva PAPOUŠKOVÁ
parallel1

The subject is a part of the following study plans