Admission procedures

Applicant requirements:

Theatre scenography: Successful completion of a related bachelor's degree programme (e.g. scenography, fine arts, architecture) at a Czech or foreign university is a prerequisite for admission.

Production design: Successful completion of bachelor's degree programme in scenography, architecture or interior design. Candidates must pass talent assessments, present their previous projects and demonstrate their understanding of audiovisual production. 

Mandatory annexes to application and course of their delivery:

The candidates must submit the documents mandatory for entire faculty (CV with photography and certificate of completed bachelor education). Above these, the candidates for this study programme must submit, together with the application, the following documents:

1. Motivation letter (max. two pages), that should include: personal interest in a specific specialisation, its justification and own idea of the direction of individual study (specific genre or application of scenography in all areas of its application),
2. a set of works (portfolio), which proves the justification of the direction of the individual study through his/her own work.

Motivation letter should be uploaded directly to the electronic application.

Portfolio shall be sent electronically via e-mail to secretary of the department: tereza.skorpilova@damu.cz

The course of the entrance examination:

a) Number of rounds: two elimination rounds.

b) Time span: first round – without the participation of the candidate,
second round – one day, max. 1hour long online interview/pp.

Content of the entrance examination and assessment criteria:

1st round (without the candidate's participation)

The committee evaluates submitted motivation letter and portfolio - insight into the field, interest in the field, artistic performance and artistic level and talent prerequisities will be assessed.

Maximum score is 15 points in 1st round.

Minimum of 10 points is required for passing to the next round. 

2nd round

1. Completion of the given art task, assigned by e-mail to candidates passing to 2nd round.
   
   Theatre Scenography - an artistic solution to an excerpt of a set theatre or literary piece. The task involves interpreting and developing a spatial/character solution based on the draft.
   
   Production Design - the task is to design an interior set according to a given theme with emphasis on the overall atmosphere of the designed space.
   
   The maximum number of points that can be obtained for this task is 20. Minimum number of points for admission is 10.  

1. Interview (via MS Teams) - includes an oral defense of the chosen solution to the assignment and a defense of specific aspects of the studio project/motivation letter.
   
   The maximum number of points that can be obtained for this task is 15. Minimum number of points for admission is 10.
   
   Aplicants who achieve the minimum number of points required for admission in both parts of the examination in 2^ndround will be accepted. 

The highest number of applicants accepted for study:

DAMU sets the maximum number of applicants admitted to study in this study programme. The number of applicants admitted to the programme may be lower than the maximum number if the number of applicants who have fulfilled the admission requirements is lower. If a larger number of applicants meet the admission requirements, applicants up to the highest number will be admitted in order of preference.

Maximum number of applicants admitted to this study programme:

Theatre Scenography: 4.

Production Design: 4. 

Medical fitness: 

Not required for admission to this programme of study.

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