FF:FAV150 Media and documentary - Course Information

FAV150 Media and documentary. Workshop on creative writing about documentary film

Extent and Intensity

0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

PhDr., BcA. Andrea Slováková (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Film and Audio-Visual Culture Studies (programme FF, B-HS)
• Film and Audio-Visual Culture Studies (programme FF, B-OT) (3)
• Film and Audio-Visual Culture Studies (programme FF, M-HS)
• Film and Audio-Visual Culture Studies (programme FF, M-OT)
• Film and Audio-Visual Culture Studies (programme FF, N-HS) (2)
• Film and Audio-Visual Culture Studies (programme FF, N-OT) (4)

Course objectives

Workshop for students of Film Science and Journalism, where they become familiar with different genres in the print media and their possibilities as well as potential limits of the understanding of documentary film. Lecturers at the workshop (who are the prominent Czech film journalists) will firstly have a theoretical class about their genre, which will be followed by the students’ writing and a practical critical seminar, where the students’ texts are to be analyzed.
Main objectives: to learn critical writing on documentary.

Syllabus

• daily review
• film journal review
• editing
• interview
• report
• essay

Literature

• GAUTHIER, Guy. Dokumentární film, jiná kinematografie. Translated by Ladislav Šerý. 1. vyd. V Praze: Akademie múzických umění, 2004, 507 s. ISBN 8073310236. info
• DO I. – VI. sborník textů o dokumentu (vybrané texty doporučené na jednotlivých přednáškách). Jihlava: JSAF, 2003 – 2008.
• Dok. revue měsíčník (in Respekt, dříve in Literární noviny).

Teaching methods

Workshop.

Assessment methods

Realization: as a part of 13th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, October 28 – November 1 in Jihlava, Czech Republic.
Credit: text on documentary film.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught: in blocks.

• Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2009, recent)
  
• Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/course/phil/autumn2009/FAV150