Course detail

Creative Naratology 2

FaVU-1TVNA2Acad. year: 2023/2024

Storytelling tools are, by their nature, strongly intertwined with particular ideological concepts, and are thus unsuitable for presenting worlds (and the imaginative thinking associated with them) other than those in which these rules are created and often used. In contrast to the winter semester, which presents established narrative methodologies as facts to learners, the summer semester introduces* participants to the ways in which the rules of storytelling are made, and the conditions under which they can be broken or how one can construct one's own narrative strategies. Compared to the winter semester, the summer part of the course places more emphasis on the relationship between the exercises and the students' other artistic practice. Thus, individual exercises do not have to personify the final product, but can instead serve as preparatory work for their thesis or other artistic practice. 

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. MgA. Filip Cenek

Department

Department of Audiovisual Technology (KAT)

Entry knowledge

Completion of the winter course Creative Narratology 1 is recommended, but is not a compulsory prerequisite for taking the course in the summer semester. 

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Credit for the course is awarded on the basis of attendance, active work in seminars and completion of homework.  
The condition for successful completion of the course is active participation in class and completion of assignments. 3 unexcused absences are allowed. Missed classes can be made up by doing homework.  

Aims

The aim of the course is to encourage students to be able to tell stories in an intermedia way. Not only will they understand the principles of storytelling in different media, they will also be able to combine and work with them in a meaningful way. 
The graduate of the course is able to understand the narrative process as a system and is able to analyse and edit individual elements of narration. For the needs of her own artistic practice, she is able to create her own authorial concepts of how to tell stories. 

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Basic literature

Bordwell, David; Thompson, Kristin. Umění filmu: Úvod do studia formy a stylu. Praha: NAMU, 2011. (CS)

Recommended reading

Aronson, Linda. Scénář pro 21. století. Praha: NAMU, 2015. (CS)
Avanessian, Armen. Miamification. New York: Sternberg Press, 2017. (EN)
Berger, John. Způsoby vidění. Praha: Labyrint. 2016 (CS)
Easterling, Keller. Medium Design. Londýn: Verso, 2021. (EN)
Fisher, Mark. K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher. Londýn: Repeater, 2018. (EN)
Hutcheon, Linda. 2006. Theory of adaptation. Londýn: Routledge, 2012. (EN)
Kokeš, Radomír D. Rozbor filmu. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2015. (CS)
Meadows H., Donella. Thinking in Systems. Chelsea: Chelsea Green Publishing Co, 2015 (EN)
Mirzoeff, Nicolas. Visualizing the Anthropocene. New York, článek v časopise Public Culutre. 2014. (EN)
Trávníček, Jiří. Příběh je mrtev? Schizmata a dilemata moderní prózy. Brno: Host, 2003. (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme VUB Bachelor's

    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Creative seminar

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

MgA. Daniel Nováček

Syllabus

1. Narrative as a system

2. Neoformalist analysis

3. Postmodern narratives

4. Audience experience

5. Open form 

6. Collective stories

7. Stories of crisis

8. Stories of the future

9. Fake news

10. Reconstructing reality

11. Documentary and truth

12. Archives and analogue media

13. The Story of Art