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Audio-visual Installation
Kachtík, Petr ; Hrůza, Tomáš (referee) ; Ptáček, Jiří (advisor)
This thesis is concerned with the relationship between sound and image, their manipulation in real time. The main topic of this work is the permeation of these two elements into a single composition. I work with documentary footage witch I try compose according to the principles of VJing.
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Analysis of documentary production of the online streaming service Netflix
Spěváková, Klára ; Štoll, Martin (advisor) ; Kruml, Milan (referee)
This thesis, titled Analysis of the Documentary Production of the Online Streaming Service Netflix, aims to describe the characteristics typical of Netflix's documentary production using a selection of films from 2015 to 2022. The films included in the analysis are American Murder: The Family Next Door, Schumacher, The Social Dilemma, The Tinder Swindler and David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet. Based on semiotic and image analysis, it examines the various elements of film language used in these films - mise-en-scene, camera, editing and sound, including the narrative mode and structure of the film. The thesis also focuses on describing the key features of Netflix production, its use to influence audiences, and the search for the reason behind the popularity of this production. The thesis also includes a quantitative analysis of Netflix's documentary production.
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The fate of Czechoslovak paratroopers after the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
Sebíň, David ; Lokšík, Martin (advisor) ; Géla, František (referee)
The bachelor thesis consists of two parts. The practical part is a document called Czechs Don't Give Up: The Fate of the Bodies of Czechoslovak Paratroopers. As the title suggests, the documentary film focuses on the fate of the bodies of Josef Gabčík, Jan Kubiš, Josef Valčík, Adolf Opálka, Josef Bublík, Jan Hrubý, and Jaroslav Švarc. In the first part, there is the atmosphere in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia from the accession to the office of the provisional Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich to the fight of the paratroopers in the Church of Sts. Cyril and Methodius. This part is presented through newsreels, photographs, and testimonies of historians, researchers, and relatives of Czechoslovak resistance fighters. In the second part, the documentary introduces events after the battle and covers the documented facts describing the fate of the bodies of the Czechoslovak paratroopers. Since their destiny is not notorious even after eighty years, this part also delivers new facts for investigation. The theoretical part serves as a starting point for the audiovisual material. It defines documentary film, reportage, and television reportage in terms of terminology, deals with current affairs journalism on Czech television, defines working procedures, and gives the reader an insight into...
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Food Waste as a Disease of Our Times
Sochorová, Anna ; Géla, František (advisor) ; Lokšík, Martin (referee)
This bachelor thesis consists of two parts. The practical part is a document called Food Waste as a Disease of Our Times, which maps this problem mainly in the Czech but also in the international context. It presents this social issue in a broader context and offers different insights into food waste. The documentary features experts on the issue, i.e. university professors, the founder of a non-profit organisation, a sociologist and a head of a food bank. Part of the film also focuses on activists who cook for the homeless or do dumpster diving. The film also includes representatives of supermarkets and their approach to food waste. The theoretical part deals with the description and definition of the film documentary. It introduces the different steps in the making of a documentary, from preparation, to production, to post-production. It also describes the specificities of the television documentary. The next part of the theoretical part presents a research on the topic and illustrates the issue of food waste with statistics and expert studies. The last part is a description and reflection of the production itself.
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Letters from Milada Horáková - their path and media coverage following 1989
Váchová, Nina ; Groman, Martin (advisor) ; Vlček, Tomáš (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the letters from Milada Horáková, their journey from writing to getting to the hands of her family and their publication, and the associated post-1989 media coverage. The thesis thus aims to describe the different stages of the letters' path and to uncover a part of their journey not known to the public. Furthermore, it sets out to analyse the post-1989 media coverage of the letters up to the present day, using qualitative content analysis of documentary films and series that mention the last letters and were produced after 1989, and relevant national print media articles published after 1989. Along with this, it compares the description of the path of the letters in the analysed material to the one in this thesis. The introduction contains a historical context in which the topic is set, the life of Milada Horáková, and the political trial, therefore the events leading up to the writing of the letters. The following chapters cover the contents of each letter and their publication in 1990. The journey of the letters is further detailed in the thesis, along with the fact that the letters were secretly taken from the General Prosecutor's Office and safely hidden by JUDr. Lubomír Štěpán for twenty years, before their handover to the bereaved family, information not yet...
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Making more space at the table: how The New Yorker portrays family dynamics in its audiovisual content
Novaes Buffa, Fernanda ; Miessler, Jan (advisor) ; Géla, František (referee)
The purpose of this study is to generate a debate about the portrayal of immigrant families in The New Yorker documentaries. The general objective is to understand how visual framing and the use of mise-en-scène elements such as set design, lighting and space, play a crucial role in communicating the representations of immigrant families and influencing the viewer's perception towards this group. In this study, the method used is close textual analysis on shots where family dynamics unraveled in seven documentaries featured in The New Yorker: Ale Libre; Guanajuato Norte; Seasons; Sing Me a Lullaby; Team Meryland; The Prince of Luna Park; and Yves & Variation. Findings indicate that immigrant families are, mainly, shown: 1) indoors, during the day; 2) with high-key lighting; and 3) with positive, closed, and deep space settings. The camera distance that appeared the most is "medium close-up". The findings advance how immigrant families are framed through mise-en-scène. This study contributes to the understanding that the portrayal of immigrant families in documentaries is a result of not only economic, social, political, and cultural tendencies and shifts, but also of elaborated constructions through mise-en-scène elements in a frame. This study has implications for research on film studies,...
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Reinventing the blurry oval: Practitioner perceptions of deepfakes as a tool for anonymisation in documentary film and video journalism
Weatherald, Nathalie Alice ; Lábová, Sandra (advisor) ; Silverio, Robert (referee)
In 2020, the documentary film Welcome to Chechnya disguised the sources it portrayed using deepfake-like 'digital masks', to wide acclaim: many described the use of the technology in this way to be game-changing for the industry. This qualitative study examines documentary filmmakers' and video journalists' (practitioners') perceptions of the benefits and limitations of the use of deepfakes, or AI-assisted synthetic media, to anonymise sources in their work, in the context of theoretical understandings of photographic realism and applied journalistic ethics. Through one unstructured interview with the film's visual effects supervisor, Ryan Laney, and eight semi-structured interviews with practitioners who have previously visually disguised sources, the study identifies four key themes of practitioners' views about the use of deepfakes as a tool to anonymise: the impacts on practitioner-source relations, practical considerations, aesthetic impacts of synthetic media and broader industry implications. Overall, practitioners emphasised the limitations of the potential use of deepfakes in this context, much more than the benefits.
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The Siso Sperm Whale - The Face of Illegal Fishing in the Mediterranean Sea
Koudelová, Tereza ; Macková, Veronika (advisor) ; Lokšík, Martin (referee)
This bachelor thesis consists of two parts. The practical part is a documentary entitled The Siso Sperm Whale - The Face of Illegal Fishing in the Mediterranean Sea which deals with illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in the Mediterranean Sea and its impacts on the ecosystem. It presents illegal fishing in the South Tyrrhenian Sea and shows how this activity threatens the local environment and contributes to plastic pollution. At the same time, over a two-and-a-half month documentary period, the film illustrates the work of Sea Shepherd, a non-profit organisation that operates in the area. In cooperation with the Italian coastguard and the financial police, is fighting the problem and looking for possible solutions.The theoretical part is the basis of the documentary, defines the concept and the processing of the documentary, describes the basics of audiovisual production, presents a research on the topic under discussion and illustrates the issue of illegal fishing through expert studies. It also touches marginally the media representation of the topic. The last part is a description of its realization and a reflection of the final work.
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