New Media Theories and Non-fiction Motion Picture in the late modern media environment - JKB230

• Title: New Media Theories and Non-fiction Motion Picture in the late modern media environment
• Czech title: Teorie nových médií a non-fiction tvorba ve společnosti pozdní doby
• Guaranteed by: Department of Media Studies (23-KMS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: summer s.:combined
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, MC [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / 20 (30)
• Min. number of students: 8
• 4EU+: yes
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: combined
• Teaching methods: combined
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: prof. MgA. Martin Štoll, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): prof. MgA. Martin Štoll, Ph.D.
• Class: Courses for incoming students

Annotation

Last update: prof. MgA. Martin Štoll, Ph.D. (25.01.2024)

The course introduces students to the realm of non-fiction motion pictures in the context of new media. How digitalization, as the technological revolution, and media convergence, as the structural revolution of new, digital media affect the documentary tradition.
The course should provide students with a piece of basic theoretical knowledge, defining old and new, analog and digital media, the basic concepts of digitalization and media convergence, history and genres of documentary media.

Literature

Last update: prof. MgA. Martin Štoll, Ph.D. (25.01.2024)

1.      Broderick Fox, Documentary Media, History, Theory, Practice, Routledge, New York. 2017. Second Edition.

2.      Quinn, Stephen and Filak, Vincent F.: Convergent Journalism, Writing and Producing across Media, Focal Press, London, 2005, 3-19

3.      Mills, Brett and Barlow, David M.: Reading Media Theory, Pearson, London, 2012, pp. 460-487

4.      Kobré, Kenneth: Videojournalism, Multimedia Storytelling, Focal Press, London, 2024.

5.      Jan van Dijk: The Network Society, Sage, 2020.

 

Requirements to the exam

Last update: prof. MgA. Martin Štoll, Ph.D. (25.01.2024)

Requirements: (students should choose 2 from the list)

50%: Multiple choice test based on the obligatory readings

50%: Academic: an analysis of a contemporary, online non-fiction motion picture

50%: Practical: creating a non-fiction online video (students will use their equipment)

 

Final grade spectrum:

A: 91-100

B: 81-90

C: 71:80

D: 61:70

E: 51:60

Fail: less than 51

Syllabus

Last update: prof. MgA. Martin Štoll, Ph.D. (25.01.2024)

The couse will run partly in presence form (beginning and the end) and online. The online platform will be announced before the first class.

1.      Introduction: new media, analog/Digital, old/new, social media, convergent media

2.      Digital revolution and media convergence, new classification of tele-information services, information traffic patterns

3.      Non-fiction motion picture in the analog media environment (film and television)

4.      Non-fiction motion picture in the digital media environment

5.      Telling, finding, and evaluating a story

6.      Brickstones of a multimedia story, audio, and video materials

7.      Preproduction: Research, scriptwriting,  and storytelling

8.      Production: A roll: Recording sound, conducting an interview

9.      Production: B roll: visual storytelling

10.  Postproduction: editing

11.  Final class