Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University Course Catalogue
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| Year/Semester of Study | 4 / Spring Semester | ||||
| Level of Course | 1st Cycle Degree Programme | ||||
| Type of Course | Optional | ||||
| Department | VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN | ||||
| Pre-requisities and Co-requisites | None | ||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face to Face | ||||
| Teaching Period | 14 Weeks | ||||
| Name of Lecturer | FATİH ÖZDEMİR (fatihozdemir@nevsehir.edu.tr) | ||||
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| Language of Instruction | Turkish | ||||
| Work Placement(s) | None | ||||
| Objectives of the Course | |||||
| This course includes teaching the theoretical and practical dimensions of film analysis. The aim of this course is to introduce the students to the basic approaches in film analysis and to analyze at least two films of their choice. | |||||
| Learning Outcomes | PO | MME | |
| The students who succeeded in this course: | |||
| LO-1 | Students can use Cinema, advertising etc. make analysis of different sizes of films produced in areas |
PO-2 Students will be able to describe the concepts, thoughts, cases and problems related to the field and perceive them as multi-dimensional. PO-4 Students has the technological and theoretical knowledge, equipment and aesthetic awareness about the field. PO-11 Students will have the ability to comprehend the visual language and differences of art and design and aesthetic sensitivity and to reflect on their designs. PO-13 Describes how to visual communication of meaning and signification. PO-20 Develop the strategies that define the media, communication and art processes as theoretically. |
Examination |
| LO-2 | Can make information about world cinema. |
PO-1 Students are technically and theoretically dominant in the historical development of Visual Communication Design. PO-7 Students will be able to know the change and development processes of media from past to present and transfer what they know to current problems. PO-8 Students will be able to solve two, three and four dimensional design problems and perform their applications. PO-26 Interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary cooperation. |
Examination Term Paper Practice Exam |
| LO-3 | Can make film criticism. |
PO-5 Students use the accumulation gained from different branches of art and design in an interdisciplinary approach. PO-14 Know advertising campaign process and develop visual applications PO-20 Develop the strategies that define the media, communication and art processes as theoretically. PO-26 Interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary cooperation. |
Examination Term Paper Practice Exam |
| PO: Programme Outcomes MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation |
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| Course Contents | ||
| This course focuses on teaching the basic approaches used in film analysis and the transfer of practical aspects of film criticism to students. | ||
| Weekly Course Content | ||
| Week | Subject | Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
| 1 | Introduction, understandig cinema, birth of cinema in America and in Europe Lumiere Brothers’ and Méliès’ cinema | Naration, Question and Answer |
| 2 | Edwin S. Porter, David W. Griffith, Hollywood industrial development, studio system, aesthetic tendencies, silent comedy films (M.Sennett, C.Chaplin) | Naration, Question and Answer |
| 3 | European film ındustry, German Expressionism, Soviet Formalism, French Impressionism, Poetic Realism | Naration, Question and Answer |
| 4 | Cinema in second world war: National cinemas, Italian New Realism, Italian New Realism: Directors, films, aesthetic tendencies | Naration, Question and Answer |
| 5 | Postwar Hollywood and 1950s : collapse of studio system, new organisations in film industry | Naration, Question and Answer |
| 6 | Essential elements of film language , classic structure of film narrative, shot, scene, sequence, shot scales, camera mouvements, camera angles, editing, lighting,acting, costume, decor. | Naration, Question and Answer |
| 7 | Essential elements of film language , classic structure of film narrative, shot, scene, sequence, shot scales, camera mouvements, camera angles, editing, lighting,acting, costume, decor. | Naration, Question and Answer |
| 8 | mid-term exam | |
| 9 | Post war European cinema : New wave, film production context, New wave: directors, films, Britich free cinema | Naration, Question and Answer |
| 10 | Audience-film relation, fonctions of film analyses, film analysis in the tradition of film culture, problem of subjectivity-objectivity, critical approaches Formalism and realism: alternative narrative forms and using cinematographic elements | Naration, Question and Answer |
| 11 | Auteur cinema, aesthetic tendencies, well-known directors: Bergman, Antonioni, Tarkovsky | Naration, Question and Answer |
| 12 | Semiotic approaches: R. Barthes, C. Metz, essential cancepts of semiology, semiotic methods. | Naration, Question and Answer |
| 13 | Genre-film criticism and the general characteristics of film genres., Hollywood and narrative form, American Independant Cinema , film example | Naration, Question and Answer |
| 14 | Developments in 1960s, third world cinema, Third cinema concept, communication policy, changing national cinemas, :Transnational cinema, its discussion subjects | Naration, Question and Answer |
| 15 | Feminist film theory, Psychoanalytic approachs: Ideological approaches, essential concepts, analysing film example. | Naration, Question and Answer |
| 16 | final exam | |
| Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading | ||
| 1 | William Indick (2011). Senaryo Yazarları İçin Psikoloji, Çev: ertan Yılmaz, Agora Kitaplığı | |
| 2 | Sinematografi: Kuram ve Uygulama, Blain Brown, Hil Yayınları / Sinema Dizisi | |
| 3 | Film, Biçim ve Kültür, Robert Kolker, De Ki Yayınları | |
| 4 | Film Sanatı, David Bordwell , De Ki Yayınları / Sinema Tarihi-Kuramı Dizisi | |
| 5 | Monaco, James. Bir Film Nasıl Okunur. Ertan Yılmaz (çev.). İstanbul: Oğlak Yayınları, 2001. | |
| Required Course instruments and materials | ||
| Course notes, computer, slides, projector | ||
| Assessment Methods | |||
| Type of Assessment | Week | Hours | Weight(%) |
| mid-term exam | 8 | 1 | 40 |
| Other assessment methods | |||
| 1.Oral Examination | |||
| 2.Quiz | |||
| 3.Laboratory exam | |||
| 4.Presentation | |||
| 5.Report | |||
| 6.Workshop | |||
| 7.Performance Project | |||
| 8.Term Paper | |||
| 9.Project | |||
| final exam | 16 | 1 | 60 |
| Student Work Load | |||
| Type of Work | Weekly Hours | Number of Weeks | Work Load |
| Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) | 2 | 14 | 28 |
| Outside Class | |||
| a) Reading | 1 | 14 | 14 |
| b) Search in internet/Library | 1 | 14 | 14 |
| c) Performance Project | 2 | 14 | 28 |
| d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report | 0 | ||
| e) Term paper/Project | 1 | 8 | 8 |
| Oral Examination | 0 | ||
| Quiz | 0 | ||
| Laboratory exam | 0 | ||
| Own study for mid-term exam | 1 | 8 | 8 |
| mid-term exam | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Own study for final exam | 1 | 8 | 8 |
| final exam | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | |||
| 0 | |||
| Total work load; | 110 | ||