Puppets in Front of Camera (modul 1)
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| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 204PUPFC | Z | 3 | 15S+15CS | English |
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The course is aimed at teaching a student how to use puppets in TV shows or in film. Which kind of puppet is suitable, how we can build the stage for them (background), how build the story and how we can show the puppet on screen. The students will learn how to make a storyboard and how many techniques we could use in TV or film. After the course students should make a short TV etude. The aim of the course is to understand the specificity, the time and the space in TV puppet production.
Objective: Acquisition of the skill, which allows to create and use registered image that uses puppet forms in theatrical projects. Readiness to realize film projects with puppets.
Content: Analyzing possibilities of puppet forms in front of camera and ways of using recorded film material in theatre;
Constructing short etudes making use of puppet forms and registering them; experiments within the ways of recording the image; Creating a script in form of a storyboard; analyzing and establishing concepts for the realization of the idea; attempts to record chosen etudes; filming and active participating in the post-production process.
Recommended or required reading
Of muppets& men: the making of the Muppet show / by Christopher Finch.- New York : Muppet Press / Alfred A.
Knopf, 1981.
Jim Henson: the works: the art, the magic, the imagination / Christopher Finch.- New York : Random Hous, Inc., 1993.
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