COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SCRIPTWRITING PRACTICE II

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FTS 2318 SCRIPTWRITING PRACTICE II COMPULSORY 2 2 0 6

Offered By

Film Design and Screenwriting

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DILEK TUNALI

Offered to

Film Design and Screenwriting
Film Design and Screenwriting

Course Objective

To form a scenario and improve the creativity by taking a character from the real life, knowing him by a recorder (camera) towards his biological, psychological and sociological construction;
To recreate the bond between the real life and cinematic reality;
To be able to create and improve the story and the pattern of dialogue with emphasis on mainly characters;
Students to create their own language and stories either in their personal works or in teamwork in sector by presenting creative and original scenarios based upon either reality bonds or conceptual relations.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Be able to transform characters and subjects taken from the real life into filmic stories and scenarios,
2   Create real-like film characters with their biological, psychological and sociological construction,
3   Introduce daily language in dialogue pattern and apply fictional, mathematical and transformative notions in scenario,
4   Create a transformation by unifying practice based on observation with cultural and conceptual notions,
5   Create characters, stories and scenarios in their own unique forms.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 General informing about introduction to work of interview with character ; supporting the topic with samples of cinema, theater and literature
2 Evaluation, discussion and study of a chart on biological, psychological and sociological construction of character
3 Detection of characters to be chosen from real life, discussion of its specialities and reasons to be chosen and its evaluation
4 Practice and evaluation
5 Works of interview, watching, presentation, discussion, evaluation. Making explicit main features of character, fictionalising of potential creative stories interactively if needed.
6 Making explicit main features of character, fictionalising of potential creative stories interactively if needed. (continue)
7 Making explicit main features of character, fictionalising of potential creative stories interactively if needed. (continue)
8 Making explicit main features of character, fictionalising of potential creative stories interactively if needed. (continue)
9 Making explicit main features of character, fictionalising of potential creative stories interactively if needed. (continue)
10 Making explicit main features of character, fictionalising of potential creative stories interactively if needed. (continue)
11 Evaluation of stories through works of interviews.
12 Evaluation of synopsis through works of interviews.
13 Evaluation of treatments through works of interviews.
14 Evaluation of scenarios and reports through works of interviews.

Recomended or Required Reading

The art of dramatic writing-Lagos Egri
Psychology for screenwriters-William Indick
Writing Technique of Drama and Screenplay-Turgut Özakman
Ecrire un Scenario Michel Chion

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Most films' stories are originated from real life transformations, within the context of this course, it would pay attention to establish a bond between real life characters with heroes of cinematic reality while making creative and original stories;
Conducting interviews with real life characters by a camera;
Deliverance of a final report including all levels of scenario production (including records of interview) ;
Idea exchange, interactive participation in course;
Evaluation, discussion and detection of creative points in transformed story;
Listing of all this process with all determined criteria in final exam.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 STA TERM WORK (ANNUAL)
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE STA * 0.70 + ASG * 0.30


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Completing all stages of a short film script that will be made based on real life characters and locations

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

No rules and policies

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assoc..Prof.Dr.Dilek Tunalı (PHD)
dilek.tunali@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday 12.00-13.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 1 13
Case study 13 2 26
Design Project 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 5 70
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 149

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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