2025/2026
Английский язык для специальных целей. Английский для кинопроизводства - 3
Статус:
Факультатив
Кто читает:
Школа иностранных языков
Где читается:
Школа иностранных языков
Когда читается:
1-3 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Преподаватели:
Хомутский Константин Игоревич
Язык:
английский
Контактные часы:
48
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The discipline refers to the educational tracks offered to students within the curricula for Bachelor's and Specialist's degrees, while mastering the courses of English in accordance with the Concept of developing Foreign-speaking communicative competence of students of Higher School of Economics — National Research University (Bachelors, Masters; Specialists) https://www.hse.ru/docs/381549301.html. The ESP course ‘English for Film Production’ for second-year bachelor students explores the following topics: ‘Society and Media’; ‘Three Ps: Pre-production, Production, Post-production’; ‘Screenwriting: structuring a story and developing concepts’; ‘Video storytelling methods and script creation’. Apart from a strong focus on mastering relevant and most frequently used subject-specific vocabulary and key terminology through communication practice, the course provides an empirically based understanding of the discourse and language used in the target ESP variety by involving students in projects related to film production. The course also aims at developing four major sets of language skills — listening, reading, writing, and speaking through various tasks (both in standard and creative formats) based on the communicative approach to foreign language teaching. Moreover, the course also provides task-based activities such as projects, most of which simulate workplace assignments and help students to practice them prior to real working experience. The prerequisite level of English for students willing to take the course is B2 or higher (according to CEFR).
Learning Objectives
- To sharpen students’comprehension skills of manifold traditional and emerging (hybrid) types of media products (e.g., professional articles, reports/user-generated content) 2. To master essential genres and appropriate specialized registers of English 3. To enable students to acquire specialized vocabulary (key terminology) and a set of lexical items with the highest frequency of occurrence in various professional contexts 4. To develop the ability to use essential domain-specific and conventionalized grammatical structures prevalent in the target ESP variety 5. To master analytical and critical thinking/writing skills/to master writing skills in various spheres 6. To upgrade skills related to the solution of diverse professionally oriented tasks both individually and in teams 7. To foster awareness of long-term patterns and relevant trends in the spheres of cinematography and film production 8. To improve media literacy and develop a creative approach applicable to a range of professionally relevant tasks (content creation; storytelling; film production)
Expected Learning Outcomes
- delivers the presentation to the public
- Analyzes the stage of a film product development
- applies the theoretical knowledge to the practical tasks
- comprehends professional dialogue and monologues including professional terms
- Deals with long proffessoinal texts with ease
- creates the basic frame of a future film project
- Applies different storytelling techniques to create his/her own one(s)
- applies the methods of storytelling analysis to understand different media products
- comprehends long professional texts with ease
- uses professional terminology in an appropriate context easily
- uses professional terminology in a given context easily
- writes a review of a film/documentary or TV series
- writes a script or its part for a film/series/documentary
- to articulate ideas clearly and confidently in English. to structure speeches with a strong opening, body, and conclusion. to use appropriate vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation. to engage audiences with eye contact, pace, and voice modulation.
Course Contents
- General Introduction to Film Production in English
- Unit 2. Three Ps (Pre-Production; Production; Post-Production
- Unit 3. ‘Screenwriting: structuring a story and developing concepts’
- Unit 4. ‘Video storytelling methods and script creation’
- Public Speaking in English
Assessment Elements
- Classroom Written Assessment
- Classroom Oral Assessment
- Home Assignment
- Script Project
- Final Assessment
Interim Assessment
- 2025/2026 3rd module0.2 * Classroom Oral Assessment + 0.2 * Classroom Written Assessment + 0.3 * Final Assessment + 0.2 * Home Assignment + 0.1 * Script Project
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- !Bien dicho!, Pinilla, R., 2005
- A new history of documentary film, McLane, B. A., 2012
- Alyson Connolly. (2018). Public Speaking Skills For Dummies. For Dummies.
- Barry Keith Grant, Jeannette Sloniowski, Documenting the Documentary : Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video (Wayne State University Press, 2013).
- Camden, J., & Oestreich, K. F. (2018). Transmedia Storytelling : Pemberley Digital’s Adaptations of Jane Austen and Mary Shelley. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1986609
- Communication in everyday life : the basic course edition with public speaking, Duck, S., 2015
- De Fina, A., & Perrino, S. (2019). Storytelling in the Digital World. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Introduction to film studies, , 2012
- Joosr Ltd. (2016). A Joosr Guide To... TED Talks by Chris Anderson : The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking. Hove: Joosr. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1460722
- Joyce, S. (2018). Transmedia Storytelling and the Apocalypse. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1876988
- Nichols, B., Sloniowski, J., & Grant, B. K. (2014). Documenting the Documentary : Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video, New and Expanded Edition. Wayne State University Press.
- Public Speaking : Strategies for Success, Zarefsky, D., 2005
- Storytelling techniques for digital filmmakers : plot structure, camera movement, lens selection,..., Hockrow, B., 2014
- TED talks storytelling : 23 storytelling techniques from the best TED talks, Karia, A., 2015
- The art of public speaking, Lucas, S. E., 2012
- The documentary filmmakers handbook, Jolliffe, G., 2012
- Turo Uskali, Astrid Gynnild, Sarah Jones, & Esa Sirkkunen. (2020). Immersive Journalism As Storytelling : Ethics, Production, and Design. Routledge.
- Video journalism for the web : a practical introduction to documentary storytelling, Lancaster, K., 2013
- Visual storytelling : videography and post production in the digital age, Osgood, R. J., 2014
- Пильгун, Е. В. Искусство публичного выступления = The Art of Public Speaking : учебно-методическое пособие / Е. В. Пильгун. — Минск : БГУ, 2018. — 203 с. — ISBN 978-985-566-581-7. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/180532 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.
- Чикилева, Л. С. Английский язык для публичных выступлений (B1-B2). English for Public Speaking : учебник для среднего профессионального образования / Л. С. Чикилева. — 3-е изд., испр. и доп. — Москва : Издательство Юрайт, 2025. — 204 с. — (Профессиональное образование). — ISBN 978-5-534-06796-5. — Текст : электронный // Образовательная платформа Юрайт [сайт]. — URL: https://urait.ru/bcode/567140 (дата обращения: 04.07.2025).