Ears to Hear and Eyes to See

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
306EH Z 2 26S English, Czech

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Learning outcomes of the course unit

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course students will be able to:

  1. Enjoy listening
  2. Understand the creative potential of sound in relation with image
  3. Analyze creative sound compositions and sound editing (dramaturgical structure) in audio and film documentaries
  4. Define avant-garde cinema approaches to a sound (Dziga Vertov´s Laboratory of hearing, Radio of the Future of Velimir Chlebikov, F.T. Marinetti´s Manifest La Radia, Russolo´s Art of noise, etc.)
  5. Explain revolutionary potential of the various “types” of experimental approach to sound
  6. Understand the vocabulary connected with the sound and editing

Mode of study

Screenings, discussion

Prerequisites and co-requisites

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Course contents

A year course is divided into two parts. First part is dedicated to audio and ways of hearing, second part offers discoveries of relations between the sound and image, explores ways of seeing.

First part of the course brings into focus the art of hearing (listening), perceives critically common modes of listening and offers a space to consciously cultivate our abilities to hear and thus - helps to use this sensitivity for deeper understanding of narrative potential of the sound itself. Besides listening to a different audio documentaries with emphasis on composition analysis, first part of the course summarizes the changes of our perceptions due to the switch from analog to digital audio.

Second part of the course benefits from the first, evolves sensitivity to a sound realm in relation to imagination (image). How does hearing influence our perception and understanding of the image? If seeing and hearing comes before words, how can we reach uniqueness of (our own) film language? Besides on going listening to audio documentaries, course will bring into attention different illustrations from documentary films where sound plays important role.

Last but not least both parts of the course lead to a study of important essays on Audio art and Cinema.

Recommended or required reading

Ways of Hearing podcast by Damon Krukowski

Ways of Seeing by John Berger

Wireless imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde by Douglas Kahn, Gregory Witehead (Eds.), 1992

Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures by Scott MacKenzie

Sound Theory, Sound Practice (AFI Film Readers) by Rick Altman, 304 pages, Routledge (June 30, 1992)

ISBN-10: 0415904579

Assessment methods and criteria

Class Attendance (70%) and active participation: mandatory in order to pass the course.

Reading and study of delivered texts.

Passing of the final exam which consists of creating own short (max. 5 minutes) film based and developed on a sound (track).

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Course may be repeated

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