Camera in Documentary Film 2

Display Schedule

Code	Completion	Credits	Range	Language Instruction	Semester
304CDF2	credit	2	2 hours (45 min) of instruction per week, 32 to 42 hours of self-study	English

Subject guarantor

Michal BAUMBRUCK

Name of lecturer(s)

Michal BAUMBRUCK

TOPICS FOR SEMINARS

1.Different modes of documentary film:

Expository, observatory, participatory, poetic, reflexive, performative, interacitve

2.Documentary film and Ethics: Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris, https://mubi.com/films/meeting-the-man-james-baldwin-in-paris

3.War, Disaster, Extreme https://dafilms.cz/program/660-Stories-from-Syria , https://dafilms.cz/film/13067-pozorovatelna, https://dafilms.cz/film/12712-pripyat-piano, https://mubi.com/films/the-monopoly-of-violence/player

4.European Doc Film. Nikolaus Geyrhalter https://dafilms.cz/director/8978-nikolaus-geyrhalter THOMAS IMBACH https://dafilms.cz/director/11899-thomas-imbach, Roberto Minervi https://dafilms.cz/director/10427-roberto-minervini

5.Asian documentary film.

6.South American documentary film

7.Africa and the Middle East

8.After the Quatsy Trilogy : VIKTOR KOSSAKOVSKI - https://dafilms.cz/film?q=victor+kossakovsky

9.Documentary Portrait of a person https://dafilms.cz/film/12310-photographic-memory, https://dafilms.cz/program/843-chantal-akerman, https://mubi.com/films/meeting-the-man-james-baldwin-in-paris https://dafilms.cz/film/9248-pavel-lyalya, https://dafilms.cz/film/14044-the-sailor, https://dafilms.cz/film/14033-malirka-a-zlodej, https://dafilms.cz/film/7136-rene, https://dafilms.cz/film/9894-arab-attraction

10.Environmental issues https://dafilms.cz/film/12679-lzicka, https://dafilms.cz/film/10353-homo-sapiens, https://mubi.com/films/the-gleaners-i/player

11.Film as Poetry https://dafilms.cz/film/11120-mosty-casu , https://dafilms.cz/program/637-film-poetry

12.Media, formats, extreme solutions - 8mm film The Bone of the soul https://mubi.com/films/the-soul-of-the-bone

13.Taiwan https://dafilms.cz/program/820-Taiwanese-Avant-Garde, https://dafilms.cz/program/665-tidf-2018

China https://dafilms.cz/film/11376-na-okraji-nebe, https://dafilms.cz/film/10567-fengming-a-chinese-memoir

Otehr recommended viewing:

Dance https://dafilms.cz/program/726-dancing-with-love Philosophy https://dafilms.cz/film/8331-peace

Learning outcomes

Seminars in the second semester will develop further the systematic preparations of Camera Dept. students to position as the DoP for shooting a documentary film.

We will discuss basic lighting principles and use of evailable light in documentary genres.

Different formats and styles of shooting in ragrd to the size of the project and the crew will be also discussed.

We will analyse different approaches to documentary film and different modes. The screenings of excerpts of relevant examples will continue and also the the students will bring their own picks for discussion.

Besides the regular seminars there will be seminars with international and local gusts and mentors. These included in the past Joao Atala, Brazilian cinematographer of an Oscar winning documentary, Samir Luma, cinematographer of Honey Land and others.

Prerequisites and other requirements

The students will watch the films in their entirety selected for this seminar prior to the analysis sessions in order to formulate their opinion on the narrative and camera style.