COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CINEMA AND VISUAL CODES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FMK 2422 CINEMA AND VISUAL CODES ELECTIVE 2 0 0 2

Offered By

Sound Editing and Cinematography

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

UFUK TAMBAŞ

Offered to

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

1   having ability to realize relations between cinema and producting visual codes
2   having information about the basic film analysing methods
3   comprhending the relations between visual codes and genre cinema styles
4   comprehending the relations between culture and cinema
5   difference of uses of visual codes in mainstream cinema and modernist cinema

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction
2 Building cinema as a language
3 image editing as a language
4 first visual codes which created by repetitins in genre cinemas
5 basic film analysing methods and relations between culture and film
6 film analyzing ona an example movie
7 film analyzing ona an example movie
8 film analyzing ona an example movie
9 midterm exam
10 film analyzing ona an example movie
11 film analyzing ona an example movie
12 film analyzing ona an example movie
13 film analyzing ona an example movie
14 film analyzing ona an example movie

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

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


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)

ufuk.tambas@gmail.com

Office Hours

after class

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 5 5
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 53

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.11
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LO.3
LO.41
LO.5