Sylabus
The couse will run partly in presence form (beginning and the end) and online. The online platform will be announced before the first class.
1. Introduction: new media, analog/Digital, old/new, social media, convergent media
2. Digital revolution and media convergence, new classification of tele-information services, information traffic patterns
3. Non-fiction motion picture in the analog media environment (film and television)
4. Non-fiction motion picture in the digital media environment
5. Telling, finding, and evaluating a story
6. Brickstones of a multimedia story, audio, and video materials
7. Preproduction: Research, scriptwriting, and storytelling
8. Production: A roll: Recording sound, conducting an interview
9. Production: B roll: visual storytelling
10. Postproduction: editing
11. Final class
Anotace
The course introduces students to the realm of non-fiction motion pictures in the context of new media. How digitalization, as the technological revolution, and media convergence, as the structural revolution of new, digital media affect the documentary tradition.
The course should provide students with a piece of basic theoretical knowledge, defining old and new, analog and digital media, the basic concepts of digitalization and media convergence, history and genres of documentary media.