Cinematography Analysis 2

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
304CCA2 Z 1 2T English summer

Subject guarantor

Vladimír SMUTNÝ

Name of lecturer(s)

Vladimír SMUTNÝ

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Student acquires film analysis skills from the perspective of the cameraman and learns to use those skill in the preparation of their own exercise practical.

Mode of study

Seminar

Prerequisites and co-requisites

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Course contents

Film screenings and analyses from the cameraman's perspective. Student acquires film analysis skills from the perspective of the cameraman and learns to use those skill in the preparation of their own practical exercises.

Cameraman's dramaturgy

A light atmosphere and how to create it for film and digital filming.

Camera movement.

Psychological and emotive effects of the picture composition.

Recommended or required reading

Manual for cinematographers : David Samuelson's „Hands-on“ manual for cinematographers, Oxford : Focal Press , 1998, ISBN: 0-240-51480-7

Film directing shot by shot : visualizing from concept to screen, Studio City, CA : Michael Wiese Productions in conjunction with Focal Press, 1991, ISBN: 0-941188-10-8 (brož.), 978-0-941188-10-4 (brož.)

Daniel Arijon: Grammar of the film language, Los Angeles : Silman-James Press , 1991, ISBN: 1-879505-07-X

Paul Génard: Lumiére: les premiére photographies en couleurs, Paris : Barret , 1974

Juhani Pallasmaa ; translation and checking: Michael Wynne-Ellis: The Architecture of image : existential space in cinema, Helsinki : Rakennustieto , 2007, ISBN: 978-951-682-628-1

Assessment methods and criteria

Credit is awarded based on 70% attendance, class participation and upon submission of the course paper on an assigned topic.

Note

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Schedule for winter semester 2021/2022:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2021/2022:

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 220
Room No. 220
(Lažanský palác)
SMUTNÝ V.
14:00–15:35
(lecture parallel1)
Wed
Thu
Fri
Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
Tue 14:00–15:35 Vladimír SMUTNÝ Room No. 220
Lažanský palác 		lecture parallel1

The subject is a part of the following study plans