COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SCRIPTWRITING TECHNIQUES I

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FTS 2315 SCRIPTWRITING TECHNIQUES I COMPULSORY 4 0 0 6

Offered By

Film Design and Screenwriting

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ZÜHAL ÇETIN ÖZKAN

Offered to

Film Design and Screenwriting
Film Design and Screenwriting

Course Objective

The objective of this course is to have the students do research about visual culture, to have discussions and improve the writing skills according to the scientific journal rules. The course is structured in such a way that the student is active in introducing critical messages through various messages, media, and cinema.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   It is expected that the student will have a critical view of the importance of the audiovisual media.
2   . It is expected that the students should have enough knowledge about how visual images ( such as advertising, film, banner, brochure, packaging, billboard etc.)are used, produced, and their social, cultural, economic and political effects in today's media.
3   . It is expected that the students that students can have debates about the reality of media messages and the changing structure of media ownership.
4   It is expected that the students will be able to evaluate the media ethics and moral codes.,

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Meeting, general functioning of the course, informing about resource books.
2 Defining media literacy, visual culture and its studies.
3 The relationship of media and capital
4 Media ethics, watching films about media criticism and debates
5 Media messages, representations, and applicability of media ethics
6 The structure of media ownership and monopolisation
7 The supervisory and executive structures of media ethics (such as (Basın Konseyleri, ombudsmanlık, RTÜK etc.)
8 How the images surround our life and the relationship of images and reality will be discusseed.
9 Presentation
10 Presentation
11 Presentation
12 Presentation
13 Presentation
14 Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

-Douglas KELLNER, Medya Gösterisi, Çev: Zeynep Paşalı, Açılım Kitap, Istanbul, 2010
-Korkmaz ALEMDAR, Medya Gücü ve Demokratik Kurumlar, AFA Yayınları, Istanbul, 1999.
- Pierre BOURDIEU, Televizyon Üzerine, Turhan Ilgaz (çev.), Yapı Kredi Yayınları, Istanbul, 1997.
- Rıdvan BÜLBÜL, Iletişim ve Etik, Nobel Yayınları, Konya, 2000.
- Ahmet CEVIZCI, Etiğe Giriş, Paradigma Yayınları, Istanbul, 2002.
- Bülent ÇAPLI, Medya ve Etik, Imge Kitabevi, Ankara, 2002.
- Marilyn J. MATELSKI, TV Haberciliğinde Etik, Bahar Öcal Düzgören (çev.) Yapı
Kredi Yay., Istanbul,2000.
- Ünsal OSKAY, Kitle Iletişiminin Kültürel Işlevi, Der Yayıncılık, Ankara, 1982.
- Annemaire PIEPER, Etiğe Giriş, Veysel Atayman-Gönül Sezer (çev.), Ayrıntı Yayınları,
Istanbul, 1999.
- Neil POSTMAN, Televizyon Öldüren Eğlence, Osman Akınhay (çev.), Ayrıntı Yayınları,
Istanbul, 1994.
- Neil POSTMAN, Steve POWERS, Televizyon Haberlerini Izlemek, Aslı Tunç (çev.), Kavram
Yayınları, Istanbul, 1996.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, questions and responses, debates, presentations.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.10 + ASG * 0.30 + FIN * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.10 + ASG * 0.30 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ozan.otan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 14 4 56
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 1 20 20
Midterm 1 3 3
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 144

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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