Level/category

Professional studies

Teaching language

Swedish

Type of course

Optional

Cycle/level of course

First

Total number of ECTS

5 cr

Competency aims

The aim of this course is that by reading texts,
watching movies, exercises, and discussions will have a
understanding of how to adapt a literary text to a
script text..

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student is expected to be able to
reformulate a literary text into a script text.

Course contents

Students will read and choose from a couple of texts. It can be
short stories, plays, newspaper articles, poems or pictures.
The students will also read the texts that fellow students have
selected as a basis for adaptation during the course. In this way,
students can participate as a sounding board and idea in 

lessons. We investigate the difference between a literary text and

 a script text. We discuss what is playable and not playable 
.
What is the dramatically charged from a cinematic perspective 

on internal and external events. We go through the visual image
to identify or 
 improve a situation in the literary model. We also 

with questions around what needs to be reformulated in 
 story to
create the forward motion and pre-understanding as 
 movie
audiences need to be able to understand the story. 

We work with funding, presentation and structure. We investigate

opportunities to create understanding and 
 forward motion,
including through by working with set-up, pay of situations. The
is about to learn to make arrangements, give public knowledge
of
what enables the development the story contains. We see films
such as based on literary models where we read the text and
after having seen the film discusses 
the interpretation and
cinematic solutions 
 film presented.

Prerequisites and co-requisites

MK-2-007 Dramaturgy and Rhetoric

Previous course names

None

Additional information

More information about the course can be obtained by the Course Administrator.

Recommended or required reading

Literature Through Film: Realism, Magic, and the Art of Adaptation
av Robert Stam, Robert Stam, Stam. Förlag: Wiley-Blackwell

Study activities

  • Lectures - 40 hours
  • Project- and production work/artistic activities - 60 hours
  • Individual studies - 30 hours

Workload

  • Total workload of the course: 130 hours
  • Of which autonomous studies: 130 hours
  • Of which scheduled studies: 0 hours

Mode of Delivery

Participation in tuition

Assessment methods

  • Demonstrations and proficiency exams
  • Essays, reports, productions and portfolio

Assessment requirements

To pass the performance, the student submits a following
examinations:
1: Reading short stories, articles, poems and
or pictures and a written or oral 
 motivation to choose
out, depending on the length and scope, one or two models of 

adaptation.
2: depending on the exam one to write one or two scripts. 

3: write an essay on the adaptation based on the experience
gave the course.

Teacher

Granath Thomas

Examiner

Granath Thomas

Group size

No limit

Assignments valid until

Until further notice

The timetable of the course

Period 3 och 4

Assessment methods

  • Date will be announced later - Demonstrations and presentations
  • Date will be announced later - Reports and productions

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