COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SCRIPTWRITING FOR DOCUMENTARIES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FMS 3321 SCRIPTWRITING FOR DOCUMENTARIES ELECTIVE 1 1 0 5

Offered By

Film Design and Screenwriting

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Film Design and Screenwriting
Film Design and Screenwriting

Course Objective

Learning the Dramatic Structure of Documentary Films from Cinema Types and Writing a Documentary Film Script

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Learning the Dramatic Structure of Documentary Film from Cinema Types

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The History of Genre in Cinema
2 What are the Movie Genres
3 Documentary Film Genre History
4 Documentary Genre History in World Cinema
5 First Examples
6 Today's Documentary Film Examples
7 Today's Documentary Film Examples

Recomended or Required Reading

Belgesel Sinemaya Giriş
Bill Nichols

Belgesel Sinema Yazıları
Editör: Beril Ekşioğlu

Belgesel Sinemada Sinematografi ve Gerçeklik
Şenol Çöm

Belgesel Film Üstüne Yazılar
Nilüfer Pembecioğlu

Belgesel Sinema
Paul Rotha

Belgesel Sinema Kitabı
Brian Winston

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods


Visual Film Watching and Analysis

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 PRJ PROJECT
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE PRJ * 0.60 + ASG * 0.40


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

It is mandatory to submit a project each semester.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Attending the course and participating in project work

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 14 2 28
Practice (Reflection) 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 1 14
Preparation for final exam 14 2 28
Final 14 2 28
Project Assignment 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 128

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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