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Sound Design of Franco Zeffirelli's Stage-to-Film Adaptation of Hamlet
Badhan Nebeská, Jitka ; KUDLÁČ, Jakub (advisor) ; ČENĚK, Jan (referee)
Franco Zeffirelli (born in 1923) is a renowned director of operas and successful stage-to-film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays - namely Taming of the Shrew (1967), Romeo and Juliet (1968) and Hamlet (1990). Detailed analysis of the last mentioned film - from the point of view of its film structure and sound design - constitutes the base part of the text. The next one devotes to particular elements of stage-to-film passage; there is also a reflection about the import of stage-to-film adaptation as a dramatic form and about the mutual contribution of film art and dramatic art.
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Memory landscape as home in films of Alain Resnais Providence and My American Uncle
Midriaková, Monika ; BENDOVÁ, Helena (advisor) ; DAŇHEL, Jan (referee)
This work analyzes the films "Providence" and "My American Uncle" directed by Alain Resnais.
It examines two different approaches to the narrator concept, discusses the montage procedures and the creation of film space. It follows in one case an "unreliable" narrator, who is a figure in the story and its co-creator. In the second case a narrator - commentator, who is outside the story, does not interfere into it, nor does he causally affect the plot in his commentary. He becomes the narrator just due to the montage. The work next discusses additional montage principles on top of which these films are build, and the work with space as a semantic element, where with the help of scenographical variations different story variants are been dealt with. The last chapter constructs a "landscape of memory" as a metaphor of the internal personal home - "safety", which Resnais' cinematography studies and doubts.
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Method of Errol Morris
Portel, Viktor ; KUBICA, Petr (advisor) ; RŮŽIČKOVÁ, Alice (referee)
The paper the Method of Errol Morris concerns itself with the inspirational approaches of this American director used when making films based on interviews. It reflects the traditions which inspired Errol Morris and uses specific examples from his films to present the inspirational moments of his work. Those are two - the unique method of recording "talking heads" with the aid of a device known as the Interrotron, and the similarly interesting form of director's cuts of the statements thus procured.
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Mosaic Composition
Elšík, Tomáš ; TRAJKOV, Ivo (advisor) ; DOLENSKÝ, Martin (referee)
This thesis is based on personally gained experience from the making of my graduation movie Message from Dement. I have applied mosaic system of narration. This experience is enriched by observation from other movies that use the same dramaturgic structure. I have tried to find general rules for the mosaic structure with more focus on directing - editing process by mutual comparing of those movies. The aim of this thesis is not to create a manual, but it is a reverse realization of work and thought process.
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The End of a Film or What to Do When Our Hero Is Still Alive
Mičúch, Vladimír ; JANEČEK, Vít (advisor) ; SLÁMA, Bohdan (referee)
This thesis deals with film ends in sense of a film narration.
I analyse a function of entrenched film expressions creating the melody of the film's end in the first part of my thesis.
I focus on ends from the point of their importance in the second part of my thesis. According to their influence on the film itself I divided the ends into two groups: formal film ends and author film ends. If an author brings a new point of view on his film (or not) this is the main criteria for the division of the ends according to the author's approach.
I prove that the film end has an expressional ability and has a power to influence yet seen scenes or a meaning of the whole film itself by analysing the chosen film ends.
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Peter Watkins - Monoform
Hogenauer, Michal ; Musil, David (advisor) ; VALAK, Radim (referee)
The theses deals with the life and work of british film direct Peter Watkins. It starts from his amateur work and goes to his last film. The individual films reflect the filmmaker's continuous effort to create films against the establishment and monotonous methods of directing and producing. The second part of this theses describes the monotonous formal concept named by Peter Watkins as Monoform and his personal and conscious distancing from it.
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The means of expression in Darius Khondji's films
Fantová, Klára ; KOBLOVSKÝ, Petr (advisor) ; ŠPELDA, Josef (referee)
The objective of this thesis is to describe the differences between the means of expression of the cinematographer Darius Khondji on examples of his three films. I describe how these differences affect the resulting visual stylization. In this thesis I focus on both technical and artistic aspects of his approaches. In the selected films I compare the contrast, lighting, color concepts, camera angles and camera movement. I describe also Khondji's approaches in relation to the dramaturgy of the story.
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Image regimes
Hofman, Jan ; BOUDA, Marek (advisor) ; MAREK, Petr (referee)
This bachelor thesis is dealing with use of surveillance systems in the film Enemy of the State (1998) and how these systems help to create image regimes. The thesis perspective consists of two approaches, first approach is ontological in a sense, that there coexist images with different characteristics (digital/analog) in one platform of the film. The second approach is ideological, because these image regimes create hierarchy and thereby create referentiality/truth and topology in film narration.
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Jaws: Mechanisms for the creation and release of emotions of fear and anxiety.
Sánchez, Jorge ; DOLENSKÝ, Martin (advisor) ; TRAJKOV, Ivo (referee)
This essay analyses how the emotions of anxiety and fear are created and released in suspense and thrilling scenes, using the film Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975) as an archetypal case to illustrate my thesis.
It also endeavors to define concepts such as emotion and fear and to provide an insight into the basic psycho-physiologic mechanisms associated to processing emotions of fear.
The author proposes a general classification or fear scenes, explaining their characteristics, enumerating the different audiovisual cues associated to each type as well as other techniques used to sustain tension throughout the chosen film.
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Deception of people who appear in documentary films
Abramjan, Andran ; RŮŽIČKOVÁ, Alice (advisor) ; KLUSÁK, Vít (referee)
The thesis aims on how deception of people, who appear in documentaries, helps to reveal knowledge and issues, and how epistemic and dramatic potential of deception is handled by filmmakers. The epistemic aspect is discussed on the case of Milgram Obedience experiment and the dramatic one on the case of television entertainment (Candid Camera, Derren Brown: The Experiments). Four feature-length documentaries (The Advertisement, Czech Dream, The Yes Men Fix the World, The Ambassador) are then analysed, regarding the relation of both of the aspects of deception, as well as the information value of the films, language of film and limits caused by individual approaches. The question of ethics is discussed in the end.
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