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Czech Teen Comedies of the 2000s
Hezinová, Sandra ; Bláhová, Jindřiška (advisor) ; Szczepanik, Petr (referee)
This diploma thesis focuses on Czech teen comedies produced during the 2000s and the production practices associated with them. The thesis defines a teenage film as a film that not only thematizes adolescence, but primarily targets an adolescent audience. In other words, the film's creators were consciously aiming at teenagers. The basic conceptual framework used to select individual films is the category of film cycle, which is defined as a series of typologically related films produced over a limited period of time, while also conforming to the same genre conventions of a dominant genre trend. The selected films are analyzed at a specific historical moment with emphasis on the wider context of the contemporary film and media industry. The methodological approach is based on production studies and industrially oriented genre theory which views genre primarily as an industrial concept that should be examined in relation to the film business. The analysis of the production practice used in the teen comedies is grounded in interviews with the film creators. This thesis aims to show how individual producers used the business opportunities available to them at the time, how the industrial conditions are reflected in their work, and how they thought about the concepts of genre and film cycle while...
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One World Festival
Vítková, Terezie ; Czesany Dvořáková, Tereza (advisor) ; Szczepanik, Petr (referee)
The Bachelor thesis focuses on the International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival One World and its media communication. In order to determine the festival`s approach to the concept of human rights, i.e. what is advocated by One World in their promotional material and how, four case studies, i.e. four years of the festival (2004, 2009, 2014 and 2019), are analysed. The aim is to name and describe the strategies the festival, an institution with its own agenda, uses in order to promote its interests in the public domain. The method applied is a critical discourse analysis, which is expanded by findings from the field of film festival studies.
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Scheduling in the era of streaming wars: practices of HBO Europe LLC program planning and scheduling department
Samusevich, Siarhei ; Szczepanik, Petr (advisor) ; Čížkovská, Jana (referee)
The subject of this bachelor's thesis is an analysis of the program planning and scheduling of linear HBO channels in the Czech Republic and its relations to an online curation of HBO GO catalogue. This work was written in cooperation with HBO Europe LLC, its program planning and scheduling department provided the necessary data for statistical and qualitative analysis. In addition to that Petr Gottwald, VP of the department, provided useful comments on the work-in-progress analysis of media practices within the company. The aim of this thesis is set on the creation of channel portfolios, research of program strategies and analysis of curation on the SVOD platform - mostly based on data from the scheduling department of HBO Europe s.r.o. data-science tools were used to analyze provided programs from January 2019 - July 2020, which enabled a careful analysis of media practices.
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The Collaborative Process of Development and Production of the Czech Feature Film Krajina ve stínu
Arsenjev, Mikoláš ; Szczepanik, Petr (advisor) ; Klimeš, Ivan (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the development and soft pre-production process of an yet unrealized Czech feature-film called Krajina ve stínu, which has been in the state of preparation since 2012. The authors of the project are screenwriter Ivan Arsenjev, director Bohdan Sláma and producer Martin Růžička, the story of the film tells about the historic phase of post-war expulsion of Germans from Czech lands in 1945. The thesis describes collaboration between the screenwriter, director and producer and the development of their creative vision. It also portrays the gradual involvement of other players, the endeavor of financing the project and the way these external conditions had influence on the creative vision. Furthermore, on the example of the unexperienced producer Růžička, who entered the project also as a financier, are shown the necessary skills for producing films in the Czech production culture. The thesis significantly draws upon the semi-structured interviews with the players and includes many excerpts from these.
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The Beginning Years of Film Symphony Orchestra (FISYO)
Poláková, Ivana ; Klimeš, Ivan (advisor) ; Szczepanik, Petr (referee)
This thesis deals with the inception and initial operation of the Film Symphony Orchestra (FISYO) which was the only ensemble that was used for recording film music for local feature film production since 1943 till the early nineties. Besides the information about the orchestra itself this thesis also includes the introduction to the field of music dubbing of films in Czechoslovakia since the silent era and also the curriculum of the first four FISYO conductors: Jindřich Bubeníček, Václav Smetáček, Otakar Pařík and Milivoj Uzelac.
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Stream.cz and Its Original Series Works
Vašíčková, Dorota ; Szczepanik, Petr (advisor) ; Pjajčíková, Eva (referee)
In general, the rise of the internet has brought many changes of production and distribution into the audio-visual industry. These changes triggered the development of specific internet portals that offer video content. The thesis focuses on the current development of internet televisions and especially on a particular platform and enriches the current theoretical list of forms with a specific example of a Czech internet television. The case study of the Czech internet television Stream.cz deals with the analysis of the production and dramaturgic methods of this VOD platform. For this reason a complex overview of the changes of the Stream in terms of marketing strategies influencing especially the development of the advertising market and of dramaturgic methods rising from the user content are offered in the thesis. Production background of the Stream's original web series and their position within the television structure are deeply dealt with in the thesis. Argumentation of the research stems from semi-structured interviews with the representatives of Stream.cz management and with makers of particular web series. Ascertained findings are continuously compared to forms of internet televisions abroad and thus the answer to a theoretical question what kind of internet TV the Stream.cz is is offered...
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The First day of Czechoslovak Television's Channel Two.
Čížkovská, Jana ; Klimeš, Ivan (advisor) ; Szczepanik, Petr (referee)
The thesis follows the preparation of Czechoslovak TV's Channel Two, covering a period of twelve years from the start of the preparation process in 1958 till the first day of Channel Two's regular broadcast on May 10th 1970. The thesis' area of interest covers the proposals, plans and ensuing organisational measures that resulted in the historical event of launching a multi-channel television broadcast in Czechoslovakia. The period of 1958-1970 is split into sections, according to the stages of preparation for the launch. The introductory part of the thesis deals with the political grounding for the implementation of a multi-channel broadcast in Czechoslovakia, as well as with the initial steps in creating the technological support for Channel Two. The second part introduces the evolution and finalisation of the Channel Two project and its organisation in relation to the majority Channel One. The following chapter(s) focus on the formation of Channel Two's independent head division as well as the department's evolution until the launch of the regular broadcast. This section covers the changes in personnel within the department, an outline of its key creative collaborators and supplies a schema of how Channel Two's production was organised. The final part of the thesis offers an overview of...
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