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Fire in Měděnec: From Reality and Newspaper and TV News to Movie and Movie Reviews
Meixnerová, Karolína ; Novotný, David Jan (advisor) ; Štoll, Martin (referee)
Diploma Thesis titled 'Fire in Meďenec: from reality, newspaper and TV news to the film interpretation and film reviews' examines the criminal case of Eva Kovačová, who set a social care home on fire on the night of September 1st 1984, and thereby took the lives of twenty six mentally handicapped girls. Her motives were was escaping the institute into which she was wrongly admitted and revenge against its employees who used harsh methods and cruel punishments. For this crime she was sentenced to five years imprisonment. The year 1990 saw the release of a book titled Brutality by journalist Josef Klime, which dealt with the case in detail. The book further served as an inspiration for the script to Filip Renč's film Requiem pro panenku, which premiered in 1991. According to the employees of the home, the film twists reality by portraying the caretakers as cruel monsters and Eva Kovacova as the victim. The purpose of the Thesis is to present the narrative regarding this case from newspapper articles, Klima's Brutality, Filip Renč's film to the film reviews and the tabloid boom after the year 2009, when the case was re-opened by journalist Tomáš Poláček. A section of the Thesis builds on thorough interviews with pastor František Lízna, with whom Eva Kovac lived after her release from prison and with whom she...
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The role of the editor in television newscast
Cieslar, Marek ; Lokšík, Martin (advisor) ; Štoll, Martin (referee)
This batchelor thesis focuses on the profession of an editor in czech TV newscast. It describes the origin of the job, its development and its actual workload with emphasis on the differences between the public service Czech television and one of the private channels TV Nova. Appart from specialized literature and other sources from the field of study, a significant amount of information is based on interviews with editors from both TV stations and observation of their work. In the following part of the text, the acquired knoledge is compared with quantitative and qualitative analysis of the main newscast sessions of both TV channels made in the week from April 23 to April 29 2018.
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Imagery of Czech border in modern cinematography and in television
Šolcová, Tereza ; Štoll, Martin (advisor) ; Bednařík, Petr (referee)
This master's thesis named Imagery of Czech Border in Modern Cinematography and in Television focuses on the issue of the representation of the Czech border region in Czech cinematography after 1990. The Czech border region is still an interesting area for its historical development, attracting the attention of many historians and artists. The thesis seeks to answer the question of how Czech cinematography works with historically and geographically given realities. The first part of the thesis deals with the issue of the historical development of the Czech border region and introduces the reader to the key events that formed the border in the past. It then explains how these historical events resulted in the present form of the Czech border region. The second part of the thesis focuses on the exploration of five different films made after 1990. Selected Czech films are Až do Města Aš (Made in Ash), Mistři (Champions), Habermannův mlýn (Habermann's Mill), the analysed series are Pustina (Wasteland) and Přísahám a slibuji (Spondeo ac polliceor). Movies are analysed through selected means of expression, such as location and environment, acting and characters, camera, shot and cut, lighting and sound component. The aim of the thesis is to confirm or rebut the hypothesis that the Czech borderland will...
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Participation of the local press on the development and promotion of solidarity with the municipality
Vojíková Vítková, Martina ; Štoll, Martin (advisor) ; Köpplová, Barbara (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the influence of the local press on the creation of local identity, on the example of the monthly magazine of the City District Prague 17. In particular, the thesis examines how and specifically by what the magazine called Řepská 17 supports the solidarity of citizens, readers of this monthly newspaper, with the City District Prague 17 Řepy. The thesis analyzes the content of the Řepská 17 magazine during ten year period from April 2007 to December 2017. The analysis is both quantitative and qualitative, it deals with the scope and content of individual sections and examines whether the articles highlight the positives of life in Řepy. One part of the thesis is also the processing of a questionnaire survey which took place among the citizens of Řepy, who are the readers of the Řepská 17 magazine, too. The questionnaire describes the media behavior of readers and their opinions on the magazine.The aim of both the content analysis and the questionnaire survey is to figure out whether the magazine strengthens the knowledge of belonging its readers to the City District Prague 17 and whether it participates in development of a positive relationship of the readers to the place where they live.
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Media Representation of Politicians in television Nova news (with a focus on ČSSD congresses and ODS congresses in 1995-2017)
Heřmanská, Lucie ; Štoll, Martin (advisor) ; Nečas, Vlastimil (referee)
This thesis focuses on the topic of Media Representation of Politicians in the News Reporting of TV Nova (with a focus on ČSSD congresses and ODS congresses in 1995-2017) as well as the form of political reporting on the most popular commercial TV in the Czech Republic. Specifically, it aims to introduce how TV Nova changed their approach to prime time news reporting on political events and congresses of traditional Czech political parties - ČSSD a ODS in the period from 1995 to 2017. The thesis is based on the assumption that TV Nova is inherently focused on entertainment and, in terms of reporting, truly political topics are not crucial, nor they are at the centre stage for a typical viewer of TV Nova. Despite this fact, this type of report was not marginalised in the news programme - TV News. In relation to the parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic in autumn 2017 as well as the presidential elections at the beginning of 2018 it is possible to notice a glimpse of an increased inclusion of politically orientated reports in the form of unprecedented continual election broadcast by TV Nova. This thesis observes changes that have occurred in relation to referring to general political topics on TV Nova in the period from the start of its broadcasting to the present time. The presented results...
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Author's Intentions and Critical Reflexion of tv series Bohéma
Voldřich, Matouš ; Štoll, Martin (advisor) ; Jansa, Petra (referee)
Bachelor's thesis "Author's intention and critical reflexion of television serial Bohéma" dealing with the critical reflexion of the Czech media which is explained on this serial. The executive producer this serial is Česká televize (the Czech TV company). This thesis also researches the author's purposes of the director Robert Sedláček and the script writer Tereza Brdečková. This finding is compared in the final part of the thesis. First we delimit themes and applied terminology. We present the Bohéma like a product of television in the third chapter. We summarize the basic information about the serial. We provide brief overview of the story.This chapter also includes research the texts of critical reflexion and interviews with the makers. In the same chapter we summarize gained finding. We determine established author's intentions and the extent of art licence and the critical aspects of serials which are critized by review. We show how the makers reacted to this review. The part called "Results of comparison" we compare finding of previous parts of this thesis.
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A new Trend in Audio-visual Production? Comparison of Attractivity of 360° Video against a Classical Video.
Svoboda, Adam ; Géla, František (advisor) ; Štoll, Martin (referee)
The work deals with a field of audiovisual production, namely 360ř video format. The thesis is divided into two parts. The theoretical part describes the history and the development of the format. There is also a mapping of the existing use of this format in practice. The second, practical part of the thesis, is devoted to research based on differences in spectator perception. For the purpose of the research, the video material was produced that served as the main point of exploration. Respondents were subjected to qualitative research consisting of two parts. The first was a questionnaire related to the content that the respondents were playing in the video. The second part was the simultaneous observation of the respondents while watching the videos. The work brings interesting results in the comparison of classic video and 360 ř video as well as the findings that solve the question of the direction in which 360 ř video production can be made in the future.
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The Using of Celebrity Endorsement in the ZOOT magazine Interviews
Drachovská, Zuzana ; Miessler, Jan (advisor) ; Štoll, Martin (referee)
This master thesis is focusing on celebrity endorsement used for product, brand or company promotion. The chosen example is compared with similar competitive ones and demonstrates critical view on celebrity endorsement as a phenomenon and also celebrities. The Grounded theory using repeated reading and coding is chosen as an analysis method for this thesis. This method is used in empirical part of the paper, applied on the interviews from every issue of the magazine ZOOT published and its results are interpreted and evaluated afterwards. The main aim of this thesis is to confirm or disprove the statement that magazine ZOOT uses communication strategy that differentiate it from its competition.
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The EYE - A Look at the Present as a pioneer of private television documentary production in the early 90s in Czech Republic
Tichá, Jolana ; Štoll, Martin (advisor) ; Křemen, Pavel (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the origins of private business in the production of TV documentary movies, as an example of FEBIO and its first TV documentary series The EYE - A Look at the Present. The bachelor thesis, using the information gained from a personal interview with a close colleague of the company founder, brings to light the circumstances in which private production film and television companies were established in Czech Republic. In this context, the thesis describes the emerging cooperation between the public broadcasting and the commercial sector. It analyses the first series of The EYE - A Look at the Present, which was broadcast by the Czech Television during the period 1992-1996. The analysis focuses on ten movies and examines them regards to the relationship between the subject and the director of the movie, the persons performing in the movie, the structure of the document and the identification of the so-called key situation that most characterizes the author's approach to the subject.
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Signs of Propaganda in the normalization TV series Boys and men
Štarman, Ondřej ; Štoll, Martin (advisor) ; Bednařík, Petr (referee)
The diploma thesis examines television production in the 1980s in former Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, specifically the series Boys and men (1988) by director Evžen Sokolovský. In the theoretical part, the reader will learn the propaganda theory and its types. In addition, the concept of discourse and approaches to discourse analysis are introduced. At the end of the theoretical part, the work looks into the context of the series; the concepts of normalization and rebuilding are presented. A theory of a story construction is also briefly described. The work in the practical part aims to reveal the supposedly embedded propaganda messages in the series. The author tries to identify those messages and thus confirm the political assignment of the series (to improve the image of the army in the eyes of the Czechoslovak society). Another aim of the thesis is to describe the means, by which the communication was delivered. The analysis of the series is directly linked to the analysis of media outputs in printed media, namely in Rudé právo and Týdeník ČST, where the author searches for the series-related articles. The aim of this effort is to find a formulation of the political assignment, which would again serve as a proof of its existence. In order to analyze the content of the series and the media...
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