FILM AND TELEVISION
Bachelor	TR-NQF-HE: Level 6	QF-EHEA: First Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 6

Ders Genel Tanıtım Bilgileri

Course Code:

FTV2929

Ders İsmi:

Non-Fiction Film and TV

Ders Yarıyılı:

Fall
Spring

Ders Kredileri:

Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
2	2	3	5

Language of instruction:

English

Ders Koşulu:

Ders İş Deneyimini Gerektiriyor mu?:

Type of course:

Departmental Elective

Course Level:

Bachelor

TR-NQF-HE:6. Master`s Degree

QF-EHEA:First Cycle

EQF-LLL:6. Master`s Degree

Mode of Delivery:

Face to face

Course Coordinator :

Prof. Dr. NİLAY ULUSOY

Course Lecturer(s):

Course Assistants:

Dersin Amaç ve İçeriği

Course Objectives:	The course introduces the variety and possibility of non-fiction video productions. Students will broaden and widen the perspective in the video creation. It will introduce all essential stages of producing a non-fiction from generate idea, pre-production, production, and post-production.
Course Content:	This course addresses nonfiction media as both art form and historical practice by exploring the expressive, rhetorical, and political possibilities of nonfiction production. A focus on relationships between form and content and between makers, subjects, and viewers will inform our approach.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;

Learning Outcomes

1 - Knowledge
Theoretical - Conceptual
2 - Skills
Cognitive - Practical
3 - Competences
Communication and Social Competence
Learning Competence
Field Specific Competence
Competence to Work Independently and Take Responsibility

Ders Akış Planı

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Storytelling in Moving Images	David Bordwell, “Three Dimensions of Film Narrative”
2)	Character	Murray Smith, “Engaging Characters” Bordwell, “Nuance & Niceties” and "Function of Film Sound: The Prestige"
3)	Focalization & Point of View	Chatman, “New Point of View” Jan Simons, “Complex Narratives” Thomas Elsaesser, “The Mind-Game Film”
4)	Authorship & Narrators	Michel Foucault, “What is an Author?”
5)	Classical vs. Art-Cinema Narration	Eleftheria Thanouli, “'Art Cinema' Narration”
6)	Cinema of Attraction
7)	Experimental Film
8)	Documentary Film
9)	Television & Serial Form
10)	Finding the Story and Story Structure
11)	Constructing/Editing the Story
12)	Flashback&Flashforward
13)	Crime Genre
14)	Thinking non-narratively and creative

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	David Bordwell, Narration in the Fiction Film (University of Wisconsin Press, 1985) Jason Mittell, Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling (NYU Press, 2015)
References:

Ders - Program Öğrenme Kazanım İlişkisi

Ders Öğrenme Kazanımları
Program Outcomes
1) Being familiar to the main concepts and methods of the social sciences and the fine arts devoted to understanding the world and the society
2) Having comprehensive knowledge regarding different media and branches of art
3) Knowing the historical background of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey and keeping pace with the new developments in the area
4) Having a good command of the language and the aesthetics of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey
5) Being able to create a narrative that could be used in a fiction or a non-fiction audio-visual moving image product
6) Being able to write a script ready to be shot
7) Having the skills to produce the photoboard of a script in hand and to shoot the film using the camera, the lights and other necessary equipment
8) Being able to transfer the footage of a film to the digital medium, to edit and do other post-production operations
9) Being able to create a documentary audio visual moving image from the preliminary sketch stage to shooting, editing and post-production stages
10) Being able to produce an audio visual moving image for television and audio products for radio from preliminary stages through shooting and editing to the post-production stage
11) Being culturally and theoretically equipped to make sense of an audio-visual moving image, to approach it critically with regard to its language and narration and being able to express his/her approach in black and white
12) Having ethical values and a sense of social responsibility

Ders - Öğrenme Kazanımı İlişkisi

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Low	3 Average	4 High	5 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	Being familiar to the main concepts and methods of the social sciences and the fine arts devoted to understanding the world and the society	3
2)	Having comprehensive knowledge regarding different media and branches of art	3
3)	Knowing the historical background of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey and keeping pace with the new developments in the area	4
4)	Having a good command of the language and the aesthetics of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey	4
5)	Being able to create a narrative that could be used in a fiction or a non-fiction audio-visual moving image product	3
6)	Being able to write a script ready to be shot	4
7)	Having the skills to produce the photoboard of a script in hand and to shoot the film using the camera, the lights and other necessary equipment	3
8)	Being able to transfer the footage of a film to the digital medium, to edit and do other post-production operations	2
9)	Being able to create a documentary audio visual moving image from the preliminary sketch stage to shooting, editing and post-production stages	4
10)	Being able to produce an audio visual moving image for television and audio products for radio from preliminary stages through shooting and editing to the post-production stage	2
11)	Being culturally and theoretically equipped to make sense of an audio-visual moving image, to approach it critically with regard to its language and narration and being able to express his/her approach in black and white	4
12)	Having ethical values and a sense of social responsibility	3

Öğrenme Etkinliği ve Öğretme Yöntemleri

Ölçme ve Değerlendirme Yöntemleri ve Kriterleri

Assessment & Grading

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Homework Assignments	5	% 20
Presentation	2	% 10
Midterms	1	% 30
Final	1	% 40
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 60
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 40
Total		% 100

İş Yükü ve AKTS Kredisi Hesaplaması

Activities	Number of Activities	Workload
Course Hours	14	42
Study Hours Out of Class	14	51
Presentations / Seminar	2	6
Homework Assignments	5	20
Midterms	1	3
Final	1	3
Total Workload		125