COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MULTIMEDIA AND ILLUSTRATION

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
STA 6004 MULTIMEDIA AND ILLUSTRATION ELECTIVE 2 2 0 9

Offered By

Art and Design

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MEHMET KORKUT ÖZTEKIN

Offered to

Art and Design

Course Objective

To develop a special project on a specific branch of illustration. To improve creative thinking, execution techniques by practicing on the supposedly illustration project. To give the opportunity to develop illustrator's skills.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To gain expertise on artistic creativity and experimental sensitivity
2   To gain expertise on illustration techniques and mixing medias
3   To gain expertise on idea development and Imagineering
4   To become a self imposing and self-reliant designer and artist
5   To become an expert on applying most of production techniques
6   To become an expert on graphic storytelling techniques
7   To reach virtuosity on a specific illustration medium
8   To reach and help on a specific illustration branch

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The meeting and the explanation of the priorities of the course. Presentation of course materials and reading list. Presentation the Schedule of the term.
2 Art Spiegelman and Marjane Satrapi: MAUS vs. Persopolis
3 Giving purpose and name to the Project. Evaluation of useful samples
4 Decompression techniques and Osamu Tezuka: Contemporary examples: Das Pastoras
5 Evaluation of sketches fort the Project: writing a manifest
6 Non-sequitur in graphic storytelling
7 Free seminar day
8 Collage, foto-novels and over-paint
9 Project milestone
10 Herge and ligne claire
11 Project milestone
12 Dimension, depth, perspective and spatial field in comics: Moebius, Jack Kurby
13 Free seminar day
14 Free seminar day

Recomended or Required Reading

Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels: A History Of Comic Art
Roger Sabin, Phaidon press, ISBN-10: 0714839930, ISBN-13: 978-0714839936
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
Scott McCloud, William Morrow Paperbacks, ISBN-10: 006097625X, ISBN-13: 978-0060976255
Reinventing Comics: How Imagination And Technology Revolutionizing an art form
Scott McCloud, Scott McCloud, William Morrow Paperbacks, ISBN-10: 0060953500, ISBN-13: 978-0060953508
Graphic Storytelling & Visual Narrative
Will Eisner,
Comics and Sequential Art: Principles & Practices from The Legendary Catoonist
Will Eisner,
The Education of An Illustrator
Steven Heller -Marshall Arisman
Allworth Press / ISNB no: 978-1581150759

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Multifaceted projects and theoretical seminars for gaining expertise for exploring and criticizing personal expression techniques of graphic storytelling

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 PRJ PROJECT
3 PAR PARTICIPATION
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG * 0.40 + PRJ * 0.30 + DKL * 0.30


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Multifacet illustration projects and seminars on foremost samples of multimedia in illustration

Assessment Criteria

In this one term course a single Project shall be executed depending on milestones. Also participants shall prepare two seminars in addition to this given project

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

The course shall be executed with the respect towards universal academic ethics and code of laws. Originality and flawless participation shall be awarded highly. Trickery, cheating and plagiarism are absolutely forbidden and shall be heavily punishable by any academic means.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 60 1 60
Course Preparation (Reading and gathering of the course materials etc.) 15 1 15
Final exam preparation 1 12 12
Paper Preparation 4 32 128
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 215

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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