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Program of Communication and Design

RTS426

DIRECTING IN CINEMA

Course Code
RTS426
Semester
-
Theory+Practice
3 + 0
ECTS
5
Course TypeElective Course
Course LevelBachelor's Degree
Year of Study-
Semester-
ECTS5
Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes

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
PrerequisitesNo
Recommended Optional Programme ComponentsNone
Course DescriptionIn 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
WEEK TOPICS
1st Week Introduction, who is the director?
2nd Week Characteristics of a director, film language
3rd Week The auteur cinema
4th Week Pre-production; script work, scenes and blocking
5th Week Pre-production; casting, rehearsals, production organization, location scouting
6th Week Production; mise an scene, preparations for the scene, directing the actors and the set
7th Week Post-production; editing, sound as a narrative element, director and the editör.
8th Week Tribute to masters (Hitchcock/Kurosawa /Coppola/Woody Allen/Fellini/Kubrick/Scorsese)
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
Recommended 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 Methods
  • Lecture
  • Other
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Quantity Percentage (%)
Mid-term 1 25
Assignment 1 25
Attendance 1 15
Total(%) 65
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 65
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 35
Total(%) 100
ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload
Activities Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work
Preparation for Final exam
Course hours 14 3 42
Preparation for Midterm exam
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam
Homework 8 15 120
Total Work Load162
Total Work Load / 30 (h)5.4
ECTS Credit of the Course5
Language of InstructionTurkish
Work Placement(s)No

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