Documentary: Connection Course
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
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| 311DOCC | ZK | 2 | 24S | English | winter |
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
Students will encounter and come to understand the complex issues of dealing with reality and with its representation, as they occur in the various stages of (documentary) filmmaking.
Mode of study
lecture
Prerequisites and co-requisites
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Course contents
This course is focused on exploring documentary cinema within its broad range of artistic and rhetorical methods toward representing reality -- from both a theoretical and empirical standpoint. At its foundation, the course will consider the theoretical approaches of Nichols, Bruzzi and Gauthier within the context of theories of representation (mostly Jost).
Apart from screenings and subsequent reflections, the course will also include 4 small practical exercises with the purpose of examining documentary principles (technical brilliance of the resulting films will not be important, as students will often use with their mobile phones or small cameras).
Each session will consist of an introduction, a screening and a discussion of selected films, organized either historically, or in accordance with considered modes of documentary filmmaking: poetical, expository, observational, interactive, reflexive, performative. Four sessions will also include the screenings and reflections of the students’ practical exercises.
Course Content:
- Modes of representation (reality – fiction – game/); documentary modes; initial screening
- Poetical mode + screening; submission of 1st practical exercise and final exercise
- Screening of 1st practical exercise and discussion; poetical mode cont. + screening
- Expository mode + screening + discussion;
- Observational mode + screening + discussion
- Interactive mode + screening + discussion; discussing second exercise projects
- Discussing second exercise projects; screening for inspiration connected with second exercise
- Reflexive mode + screening + discussion
- Performative mode + screening + discussion
- Screening of second exercise project and discussion
Recommended or required reading
Bill Nichols: Introduction to Documentary film (1991)
Stella Bruzzi: New Documentary: A Critical Introduction (2000)
Guy Gauthier: Le Documentaire, un autre cinéma (1999)
Erik Barnow: Documentary - A History of Non-Fiction Film (first: 1974)
Assessment methods and criteria
1 practical excersise, final colloquim, attendance
Note
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Schedule for winter semester 2019/2020:
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| Date | Day | Time | Tutor | Location | Notes | No. of paralel |
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| Thu | 15:40–18:55 | Vít JANEČEK | Room No. 5 Lažanský palác |
Oct 3, 24, Nov 7 | lecture parallel1 |
Schedule for summer semester 2019/2020:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
The subject is a part of the following study plans
- Photography EN - Bachelor-1920 (optional subject)
- Photography EN - Master-1920 (optional subject)
- Cinema and Digital Media - Directing-1819 (optional subject)
- Cinema and Digital Media - Directing_1920 (optional subject)
- Cinema and Digital Media - Screenwriting-1819 (optional subject)
- Cinema and Digital Media - Screenwriting_1920 (optional subject)