Worshop - Visual Style in Independent Filmmaking

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
304MVSNF Z 1 30S English, Czech winter

Subject guarantor

Jakub FELCMAN

Name of lecturer(s)

Jakub FELCMAN

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Introduction into contemporary independent wirld cinema. Creating of students own visual style. Introduction into the form of the cinematographer ´s statement.

Mode of study

seminar

Prerequisites and co-requisites

Common knowledge of recent cinema with a special regard towards mainstream hollywood and original svod audiovisual production as well as mainstream and influential European public-funded audiovisual production.

Course contents

An analysis of individual examples of contemporary independent film production, which is understood in its most general definition as a sum of audiovisual film work, low budget. While analyzing the visual style of the selected films we refer to other films as well as the general notion of what does „independent filmmaking“ mean in the common sense.

Introductory lessons: Definitions of the term „contemporary independent filmmaking“ with regards to the principles of multisource financing and low-budget ecosystem and its inluence at the visual style of the films concerned. Creating of a selection of films which will be closely studied throughout the semester. Each participants selects one film.

Mid-semester lessons: The participants study their films and introduce themselves to the films of others. During the lessons, only the close reading analysis of each film´s visual style, with an ambition for a practical implementation of the relevations within the creation of each participant´s own visual style.

End-semester lessons: Creating the final work. Two options are available

  1. Report of the relevations made through the analysis in a form of a term paper
  2. Participant´s own audio-commentary of the selected film

Recommended or required reading

Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness), Bryan S. Johnson (Christie Marly´s Own Double Entry), John Kennedy Toole (A Confederacy of Dunces), Franz Kafka (Das Schloss), Jaroslav Hašek, Radko Pytlík (Velitelem města Bugulmy)

Assessment methods and criteria

100% participation

Two options are available

  1. Report of the relevations made through the analysis in a form of a term paper
  2. Participant´s own audio-commentary of the selected film

Note

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Schedule for winter 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 221
Room No. 221
(Lažanský palác)
FELCMAN J.
19:00–20:35
(lecture parallel1)
Wed
Thu
Fri
Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
Tue 19:00–20:35 Jakub FELCMAN Room No. 221
Lažanský palác 		lecture parallel1

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 221
Room No. 221
(Lažanský palác)
FELCMAN J.
19:50–21:25
(lecture parallel1)
Wed
Thu
Fri
Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
Tue 19:50–21:25 Jakub FELCMAN Room No. 221
Lažanský palác 		lecture parallel1

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