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COURSE UNIT TITLECOURSE UNIT CODESEMESTERTHEORY + PRACTICE (Hour)ECTS
DIRECTING IN CINEMA FİLM214 Fourth Term (Spring) 3 + 0 4

TYPE OF COURSE UNITCompulsory Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNITBachelor's Degree
YEAR OF STUDY2
SEMESTERFourth Term (Spring)
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED4
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 COMPONENT
COURSE DEFINITIONAll the aspects of director?s creative identity will be defined and the historical course of phenomenology of directing and especially the concept of ?auteur? will be studied. The components of audio-visual narration and how to arrange the sequence of dramatic incidents will be reinforced with practical works.
COURSE CONTENTS
WEEKTOPICS
1st Week Introduction, who is the director?
2nd Week Characteristics of a director, film language and the auteur cinema Pre-production; script work, scenes and blocking
3rd Week Pre-production; casting, rehearsals, production organization, location scouting
4th Week Production; mise an scene, preparations for the scene, directing the actors and the set
5th Week Post-production; editing, sound as a narrative element, director and the editör.
6th Week Tribute to masters (Hitchcock/Kurosawa /Coppola/Woody Allen/Fellini/Kubrick/Scorsese)
7th Week Mid-term
8th Week European Cinema (Angelopoulos/Lars Von Trier/Michael Haneke/Almadovar/Ken Loach/ Costa Gavras)
9th Week From Asia (Kim Ki Duk/Wong Kar Wai/Edward Yang/Ang Lee)
10th Week Middle East (Majid Majidi/Abbas Kiarostami/ Bahman Ghobadi/Asghar Farhadi/Samuel Maoz/Hany Abu-Assad/Nadine Labaki)
11th Week American Independent Cinema (James Mangold/Darren Aronofsky/Todd Solondz/Jim Jarmusch/David Lynch/Christopher Nolan)
12th Week Turkey (Nuri Bilge Ceylan/Semih Kaplanoğlu/Zeki Demirkubuz/Fatih Akın/Ferzan Özpetek/Reha Erdem/Yeşim Ustaoğlu) 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, Uygulama, Karşılaştırma
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
 QuantityPercentage(%)
Assignment525
Project125
Attendance115
Total(%)65
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)65
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)35
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
Homework51575
Project11515
Report writing
Total Workload132
Total Workload / 304,4
ECTS Credits of the Course4
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTIONTurkish
WORK PLACEMENT(S)No
  

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