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The Use of Documentary Films in English Language Lessons with High School Students
Kautská, Jana ; Uličná, Klára (advisor) ; Dvořák, Bohuslav (referee)
This diploma thesis focuses on the use of documentary films in English lessons with secondary school students. It consists of theoretical and practical part; this being further divided into didactic and research part. The theoretical part covers four main areas: aims of current education and language teaching, multimedia in teaching, authentic materials in English lessons, and documentary films as a didactic tool. By an eclectic combination of the most suitable findings, approaches and methods from these areas, three complex educational materials based on documentaries were constructed for English lessons. These materials contain worksheets for students, instructions for teachers, presentations for online teaching, and a set of additional sheets and present a ready-to-use tool for English classes. In the practical part, design of the materials is described, along with their subsequent evaluation by experienced English teachers. Based on the materials design and evaluation, the overall aim of this thesis is to find out whether documentary films and lessons based on them are effective for English language teaching (where the main criterion is whether they lead to fulfilling the aims of language teaching and current educational aims in general) and what their main benefits are. The data collected are...
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New Forms of documentary in the Internet
Beranová, Kamila ; Štoll, Martin (advisor) ; Křemen, Pavel (referee)
The Bachelor thesis "New Forms of documentary in the Internet" deals with an interactive web documentary, which was emerged as a new form of documentary work by linking documentary film and the Internet. On the three interactive web documents are applied analysis of narrative structure and analysis of formal elements that specify how these new documentary forms tell the story, how the presence of interactivity is manifested, and how it differs from traditional documentary film. In the theoretical part of the thesis basic terms of documentary, interactivity and narrative structure of interactive projects are introduced. The practical part contains the mentioned analyzes, evaluation and also comparison of the results of the analyzes which prove the different nature and functioning of the selected interactive projects. This work demonstrates their new characteristics and typology, proving that the Internet is developing documentary work not in one but in several directions.
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IDFF Jihlava and One World: Documentary Film Festivals in Czech Republic.
Bijedičová, Andrea ; Hanzlík, Jan (advisor) ; Hucková, Barbara (referee)
Power of the documentary production consists in its ability of reflecting the reality and informing the audience about the actual events or people and their real life stories. This thesis in dedicated to embody the documentary film to the context of film festivals in the Czech Republic in the last 20 years using MFDF Jihlava and Jeden svět as examples. The theoretical part is focused on the ethical questions, next on political, social and human-right themes, as well as on producing a network of film festivals and their development. The practical part is concerned with the dramaturgy of the festivals and with the comparison of the thematic specialization or dramaturgy.
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