Course: Screenwriting and Dramaturgy 1

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Course title Screenwriting and Dramaturgy 1
Course code KGI/KOSD1
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Zimmermannová Věra, MgA.
  • Nguyen Monika, MgA.
Course content
1. Introduction to the subject, its specifics and its requirements. Lecture on the principles of comic scenarios. 2. First task assigment and the completion of lectures on the principles of the script. 3.- 8. Emendations of literary scenarios and examples of literary analysis scenarios. 9. Submitting the first semester task in the presence of leading a special studio, where the comic will be subsequently completed. 10. Lecture on the principles of comic and enter the second semester tasks. 11. - 13. Emendations of literary scenarios and examples of literary analysis scenarios. Submission of second semester task in the presence of leading a special studio, where the comic will be subsequently completed. The seminars are divided into several parts, the first is theoretical, which are discussed fundamental questions: What is the nature of narrative painting? The correlation image and text? Comic terminology? How is a comic book script? What are the stages of preparation comic script? Students are outlined very brief overview of the development of comics from the earliest times until today. The practical part of the seminar related to as much as possible with theoretical issues, projected demonstrations and reading. At the hour of testing students etudes and improvisations, prepare reports, dealing with homework and consulting projects. Students try out both roles. The first role of screenwriter graduate student in this very subject. Scenarios that arise then are transferred to the studio, where a teacher on the basis of literary scenarios create storyboards and then the final comic. Short projects: strip, comic without words, comics proverb. Longer project: comic diary

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture with practical applications, Multimedia supported teaching, Students' portfolio, Skills demonstration, Task-based study method, Individual study, Lecture, Lecture with visual aids, Practicum
  • Contact hours - 39 hours per semester
  • Presentation preparation (report) (1-10) - 5 hours per semester
  • Undergraduate study programme term essay (20-40) - 35 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
to apply the rules of artistic narrative according to simple style styles, to provide basic knowledge of technical and technological procedures of drawing and drawing of free visualization and graphic editors, to specify basic knowledge of supporting arts disciplines,
Skills
to design a visual metaphor by hand or by basic graphic editors, in a few steps to describe the story through means of artistic expression, present your suggestions to other team members, the sponsor (the teacher), to recognize and analyze basic partss of a story,
Competences
N/A
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N/A
learning outcomes
Knowledge
about a wider range of basic ways of capturing human characters from different perspectives and across a variety of movements, about historical and contemporary style canons, of a nature and functionality of narrative imaging, about creative approaches to finding the forms of narrating through image,
Skills
to understand the essence of narrative painting, to write basic literary scenrio, upon led of a teacher can create storyboards and then the final comic, reflects its work in the context of professional, technical and technological processes, to work with basic style formations and forms suitable for transition into scenario,
Competences
N/A
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N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Students' portfolio
One-to-One tutorial
Seminar classes
Skills
Skills demonstration
Students' portfolio
Competences
Discussion
assessment methods
Knowledge
Seminar work
Continuous assessment
Skills
Skills demonstration during practicum
Project
Practical exam
Competences
Seminar work
Recommended literature
  • Diesing, Helena. Český komiks 01. poloviny 20. století. Praha : Verzone, 2011. ISBN 978-80-904546-8-2.
  • Dutka, E. Animovaný film, Úvod do scenáristiky animovaného filmu.
  • Field, Syd. Jak napsat dobrý scénář : základy scénáristiky. Praha : Rybka Publishers, 2007. ISBN 978-80-87067-65-9.
  • Groensteen, Thierry; Antonová, Barbora. Stavba komiksu. Vyd. 1. Brno : Host, 2005. ISBN 80-7294-141-0.
  • McCloud, Scott. Jak rozumět komiksu. 1. vyd. v českém jazyce. Praha : BB/art, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7381-419-9.


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