Script Editing of a Feature Film 1

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
306SFF1 credit 2 4 lecture hours (45 min) of instruction per week, 14 to 24 hours of self-study English winter

Subject guarantor

Name of lecturer(s)

Ivo TRAJKOV

Contents

A practical introduction to dramaturgy of a feature film - the primary elements, structure, and rules of the structure of a film, including the structural-dramaturgical specifics of individual film genres, taking into account the model definition of a story, as practised in American cinematography, and the seeming dramaturgical „open-endedness“ of auteur and independent film.

1] Through the analysis of feature films, the following principles are examined and explained: three act story structure, plot points, the function of exposition, the catalyst, rising action, crisis, climax, culmination, resolution; idea, theme, as well as ability to create smaller parts of a movie - sequences and internal scene structure.

2] Most importantly, students will learn to analyze films according the sequence method, and to employ it in their own creative work and filmmaking.

Learning outcomes

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Prerequisites and other requirements

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Literature

The Screenwriter's Workbook

Syd Field, Publisher: Delta; Revised edition (October 31, 2006) ISBN-10: 0385339046, ISBN-13: 978-0385339049

Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting

Robert McKee, ReganBooks; 1 edition (November 25, 1997), ISBN-10: 0060391685, ISBN-13: 978-0060391683

Evaluation methods and criteria

Credit is awarded based on:

Activity in the lectures/exercises/classes

development of the course paper

presentation

completion of the final exam

minimum 70% participation in the total classes.

Note

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Schedule for winter semester 2023/2024:

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
Wed
room 311
Room No. 311
(Lažanský palác)
TRAJKOV I.
17:20–19:45
(parallel1)
Thu
Fri
Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
Wed 17:20–19:45 Ivo TRAJKOV Room No. 311
Lažanský palác		 parallel1

Schedule for summer semester 2023/2024:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans