Project of Film Scenography 1

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Contents

The content of this project is working with historical reality. The student is given an important person in Czech history and is asked to describe and visualize the environment that surrounded him or her at a certain stage of his or her life. In agreement with the teacher, the student decides which period of the personality's life he or she considers to be the defining one and which he or she will work on in detail. The student is asked to prepare a brief biography of the selected personality and to describe the environment in which the personality lived and which may have influenced him/her in some way. The aim of the assignment is to collect references to the period and place and try to reconstruct and visualize the environment according to the information obtained. The work is presented through a collection of colorful perceptual designs, which are accompanied by basic floor plans at an appropriate scale. Throughout the semester, the student explores the morphology of the architecture of the assigned time period and the material culture that surrounded the figure.

The student learns to work with pictorial and other references and focuses on accurately depicting the period environment in which the selected personality lived, with historical and visual research, and with knowledge gained from the study of architectural history, art history, and material culture.

Learning outcomes

The student learns to work with pictorial and other references and focuses on accurately capturing the contemporary environment in which the selected personality lived, with historical and visual research, and with knowledge gained in the study of architectural history, art history, and material culture.

Prerequisites and other requirements

None.

Literature

Art History for Filmmakers, The Art of Visual Storytelling, Gillian McIver,

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2016, UK

Art Direction & Production Design, Lucy Fischer, I.B. Tauris 2015, London - New York, UK- USA

If It's Purple Someone's Gonna Die, Patti Bellantoni, Focal Press 2005, Oxford, UK

Pretty Pictures, Production Design and the History Film, T.S. Tashiro, University of Texas Press, Austin 1998, USA

The Visual story, Bruce A Block, Elsevier 2008, Oxford, UK

By Design, Vincent LoBrutto, Praeger Publishers 1992, USA

Designs on Film, Cathy Whitlock, Harper Collins Publishers New York 2010, USA

Sets in Motion, Art Direction and Film Narrative, Charles Affron & Mirella Jona Affron, Rutgers

University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey 1995, USA

Evaluation methods and criteria

The student works on a semestral project assigned by the head teacher at the beginning of the semester. Within the assignment, the teacher also sets the minimum scope of the work necessary for its evaluation. During the presentation, the student first introduces his/her project to the committee and then describes the individual artistic designs in detail and answers the questions of the evaluation committee. In the evaluation, the committee emphasizes work with research materials and knowledge of period realities and their depiction in the final designs.

Further information

No schedule has been prepared for this course

The subject is a part of the following study plans