SCRIPT WRITING

RTS321

Course Code: RTS321
Semester: -
Theory+Practice: 3 + 0
ECTS: 5

Course Type

Elective Course

Course Level

Bachelor's Degree

Year of Study

Semester

ECTS

Name of Lecturer(s)

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

Learn what is script in cinema and television.
Understand the function and importance of script in a production.
Know the processes of a script and by learning script writing rules, put these learnings into practice.

Mode of Delivery

Face to face

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Description

Within this course, it is aimed to teach authentic formal features and rules of a audiovisual production by learning contextual-formal stages of a script while scripting for a television production, a motion picture or a commercial video. For that purpose, there will be exercices about all elements of visual language - such as being able to use imagination in accordance wtih cinema and television's structure that is capable of using space and time as a plastic material and perpetuate the dramatical structure - from the stage of finding a idea to the stage of writing and visualisation.

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	Introduction to Script.
2^nd Week	Key Elements of a Script.
3^rd Week	The Structure of Narrative and Story.
4^th Week	Traditional Dramatical Structure / Conflict - Complication - Resolution.
5^th Week	Basic Concept of Story and Basic Applications of Story Design.
6^th Week	Applications of Finding Different Story Structures, Basic Stories and Conflicts Starting the Story.
7^th Week	Main Components of a Script and Points to Consider While Script Writing.
8^th Week	Midterm
9^th Week	Formal and Contextual Working Stages of a Script, Writing Cinematographic Subject/ Synopsis and Treatment.
10^th Week	Continuity / Sequence and Stage Study.
11^th Week	Preparation of Shooting Script and Story Board.
12^th Week	Working on Sample Shoting Scripts Prepared for Television.
13^th Week	Working on Sample Shoting Scripts Prepared for Cinema.
14^th Week	Demonstrating the Process of Visualisation by Comparative Viewing of a Film with its Script.

Recommended or Required Reading

SENARYO VE YAPIM
Mahmut Tali Öngören, Alan Yayıncılık, İstanbul, 1985.

SENARYO YAZARI OLMAK
Feridun Akyürek, MediaCat Kitapları, İstanbul, 2004.

THE NONBROADCAST TELEVISION WRITER'S HANDBOOK
William Van Nonstran, Knowlwdge Industry Publications, Inc. NY, 1983.

ELEMENTS OF STYLE FOR SCREENWRITERS The Essential Manual for Writers of Screenplays, Paul Argentini, IFilm Publishing, Lone Eagle Publising. Co., USA, New York, 1998.

THE SCREEN-WRITER?S WORKBOOK
Syd FIELD, Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., USA, New York, 1984.

WRITERS AT THE MOVIES ? TWENTY-SIX - CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS CELEBRATE, TWENTY SIX MEMORABLE MOVIES, Edited by Jım Shepard, Perennial An Imprint of Harper Collins Publihers, New York, 2000.

SCREENWRITING
Ray Frensham, Printed in Great Britain for Hodder&Stoughton Educational, a division of Hodder Headline Ltd., London, 2003.

OYUN VE SENARYO YAZMA TEKNİĞİ
Turgut Özakman, Bilgi Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1998.

SENARYO KURAMI
Semir Aslanyürek, Pan Yayıncılık, İstanbul, 1998.

TELEVİZYON YAZARLIĞI
Gerald Kelsey, Çeviren: Bahar Öcal Düzgören, Yapı Kredi Yayınları, İstanbul, 2001.

BİR SENARYO YAZMAK
Michael Chion, Çeviren. Nedret Tanyolaç, Afa Sinema Yayınları, İstanbul, 1997.

SENARYO YAZIMI DERS NOTLARI
H. Hale KÜNÜÇEN, Gazi Üniversitesi ve Başkent Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi (1994 - 2013).

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Practice

Assessment Methods and Criteria

	Quantity	Percentage (%)
Mid-term	1	30
Assignment	1	10
Total(%)		60
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)		60
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)		40
Total(%)		100

ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam	1	2	2
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work
Preparation for Final exam	1	60	60
Course hours	14	3	42
Preparation for Midterm exam	1	50	50
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam	1	2	2
Homework	1	2	2
Total Work Load			158
Total Work Load / 30 (h)			5.26
ECTS Credit of the Course			5

Language of Instruction

Turkish

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