Script Editing of a Feature Film 1

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
306SFF1 Z 2 4PT English winter

Subject guarantor

Ivo TRAJKOV

Name of lecturer(s)

Ivo TRAJKOV

Learning outcomes of the course unit

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Mode of study

Lectures

Prerequisites and co-requisites

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Course contents

A practical introduction to dramaturgy of a feature film - the primary elements, structure, and rules of the structure of a film, including the structural-dramaturgical specifics of individual film genres, taking into account the model definition of a story, as practised in American cinematography, and the seeming dramaturgical „open-endedness“ of auteur and independent film.

1] Through the analysis of feature films, the following principles are examined and explained: three act story structure, plot points, the function of exposition, the catalyst, rising action, crisis, climax, culmination, resolution; idea, theme, as well as ability to create smaller parts of a movie - sequences and internal scene structure.

2] Most importantly, students will learn to analyze films according the sequence method, and to employ it in their own creative work and filmmaking.

Recommended or required reading

The Screenwriter's Workbook

Syd Field, Publisher: Delta; Revised edition (October 31, 2006) ISBN-10: 0385339046, ISBN-13: 978-0385339049

Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting

Robert McKee, ReganBooks; 1 edition (November 25, 1997), ISBN-10: 0060391685, ISBN-13: 978-0060391683

Assessment methods and criteria

Credit is awarded based on:

Activity in the lectures/exercises/classes

development of the course paper

presentation

completion of the final exam

minimum 70% participation in the total classes.

Note

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Schedule for winter semester 2020/2021:

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 311
Room No. 311
(Lažanský palác)
TRAJKOV I.
14:50–18:05
(lecture parallel1)
Thu
Fri
Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
Wed 14:50–18:05 Ivo TRAJKOV Room No. 311
Lažanský palác 		lecture parallel1

Schedule for summer semester 2020/2021:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans