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COURSE UNIT TITLECOURSE UNIT CODESEMESTERTHEORY + PRACTICE (Hour)ECTS
DIRECTING IN CINEMA RTS426 - 3 + 0 5

TYPE OF COURSE UNITElective Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNITBachelor's Degree
YEAR OF STUDY-
SEMESTER-
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED5
NAME OF LECTURER(S)Instructor Erinç Ulusoy
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT At the end of this course, the students;
1) Will learn "diector" in cinema.
2) Know the unique language/style of auteur director.
3) Will realize the contribution of the director's personality and his intellectuality to the movie.
MODE OF DELIVERYFace to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSENo
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENTNone
COURSE DEFINITIONIn this course, directors, who has major effects on their national cinema as well as their importance in cinema history, will be surveyed. How directing in cinema is understood, "director movie" - "auteur" notion / theory and directing in some certain genres will be told by sample movies
COURSE CONTENTS
WEEKTOPICS
1st Week Introduction, who is the director?
2nd Week Characteristics of a director, film language and the auteur cinema
3rd Week Pre-production; script work, scenes and blocking
4th Week Pre-production; casting, rehearsals, production organization, location scouting
5th Week Production; mise an scene, preparations for the scene, directing the actors and the set
6th Week Post-production; editing, sound as a narrative element, director and the editör.
7th Week Tribute to masters (Hitchcock/Kurosawa /Coppola/Woody Allen/Fellini/Kubrick/Scorsese)
8th Week Mid-term
9th Week European Cinema (Angelopoulos/Lars Von Trier/Michael Haneke/Almadovar/Ken Loach/ Costa Gavras)
10th Week From Asia (Kim Ki Duk/Wong Kar Wai/Edward Yang/Ang Lee)
11th Week Middle East (Majid Majidi/Abbas Kiarostami/ Bahman Ghobadi/Asghar Farhadi/Samuel Maoz/Hany Abu-Assad/Nadine Labaki)
12th Week American Independent Cinema (James Mangold/Darren Aronofsky/Todd Solondz/Jim Jarmusch/David Lynch/Christopher Nolan)
13th Week Turkey (Nuri Bilge Ceylan/Semih Kaplanoğlu/Zeki Demirkubuz/Fatih Akın/Ferzan Özpetek/Reha Erdem/Yeşim Ustaoğlu)
14th Week Project overview
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READINGSinemada Yönetmenlik, Edwar Dmytryk
Yüzyılın 100 Yönetmeni, Jasper Kalldewey, Anke Stahl, Michael Venhoff, Michael Wengemann.
Film Yönetmek Üzerine, David Mamet.
Avrupalı Yönetmenler, Kitle Yayınları.
Sinema ve Televizyonda Anlatım Teknikleri ve Dramaturji, Bob Foss
Film Dilinin Grameri 1-2-3, Daniel Arijon
Sinema ve Videoda Kısa Film 1-2-3, Peter W. Rea
Bir Film Nasıl Okunur, James Monaco
Sinemanın 5 Temel Öğesi, Joseph v. Macselli
Sinemanın Temel İlkeleri, Pudovkin
Sinematografi, Kuram ve Uygulama, Blain Brown
Sinema ve Televizyon Görüntüsünün Temel Öğeleri, Bülent Vardar
Directing Film Techniques and Aesthetics, M. Rabiger
Frame by frame, Eric Sherman
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODSLecture,Other
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
 QuantityPercentage(%)
Assignment880
Attendance120
Total(%)100
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)100
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)0
Total(%)100
ECTS WORKLOAD
Activities Number Hours Workload
Midterm exam
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work
Preparation for Final exam
Course hours14342
Preparation for Midterm exam
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam
Homework815120
Total Workload162
Total Workload / 305,4
ECTS Credits of the Course5
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTIONTurkish
WORK PLACEMENT(S)No
  

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