COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

Film Design and Directing

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

UFUK TAMBAŞ

Offered to

Sound Editing and Cinematography
Carpet - Rugs and Old Fabric Patterns
Play Writing - Dramaturgy
Performance Arts
Accessory Design
Carpet, Rug and Traditional Fabric Designs
Stage Design
Music Sciences
Animation Film Design and Directing
Film Design and Directing
Ceramic and Glass Design
Illustration and Printmaking
Musicology
Film Design and Directing
Art of Illumination
Photography
Painting
Sculpture
Cartoon Film and Animation
Tile Design and Restoration
Ancient Turkish Calligraphy
Textile Design
Film Design and Screenwriting
Restorations of Ancient Tile
Fashion Clothing Design
Graphic Design
Dramatic Writing and Dramaturgy
Ceramic and Glass
Film Design and Screenwriting
Music Technology
Graphic Arts

Course Objective

building cinematography as a language takes time by repetitons of some visual (also audiovisual) techniqes that the audiences accept them as visual codes. especially mainstream cinema and popular genre films use these codes or some special codes for their own genres. these codes will be defined in sociological, psychanalitic, cultural, semiological, antrhopoligical and political contexts and also they will be determined in same contexts. and the goal of the course is the students in film creation department get the point in defininng and determining these production and analysing meaning in audiovisual codes.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Sinemacının Gözü, Hil Yayınları, 2010.
Bir Film Nasıl Okunur, Kabalcı yayınları, 2003.
Film Sanatı, Deki Yayınları, 2012.
Film, Biçim ve Kültür, Deki Yayınları.
Işitsel ve Görsel Anlam Üretimi, +1 Kitap, 2007

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

in this course, first of all, studetns will be informed about the beginning of cinematography that it was building as a language. The most important movies which takes a place in history of cinema as creating visual codes. they will be analyzed as finding visual codes in. and then movies will be shown for each film analyzing methods. that is expected the visual codes in these films will be encrypted with these analyzing methods. at last the modernist movie examples which changes the meaning of more famous visual codes andcreate new meanings and also nez audiovisual codes will be shown.

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

in midterm exams it is expected that student have realized that the meaning of visual codes. in final exam. it will be expected that they are able to analyze a film with the right analyzing method and could find the visaul codes in it.

Assessment Criteria

the main criteria is having ability to find the visual codes in a film.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1- films will be watched in some courses
2- it is expected, all the students is ready at classroom till in the first 5 mins of the course
3- it is expected that, student get ready for the subject of the lesson before the course

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes