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

Ders Genel Tanıtım Bilgileri

Course Code:

FTV2946

Ders İsmi:

Contemporary Film and Media

Ders Yarıyılı:

Fall
Spring

Ders Kredileri:

Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
3	0	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):

Instructor AYKUT ALP ERSOY

Course Assistants:

Dersin Amaç ve İçeriği

Course Objectives:	The transformation of film through the new media technologies
Course Content:	This course examines the shift from traditional cinematic spectacle to works probing the frontiers of interactive, performative, and networked media. Drawing upon a broad range of scholarship, including film theory, communication studies, cultural studies and new media theory, the course will consider how digital technologies are transforming the semiotic fabric of contemporary visual culture.

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)	Introduction to Digital Media, concepts and examples
2)	What is media arts?
3)	What was Cinema?	Rodowick, The Virtual Life of Film/ 1-87
4)	Cinema in the Digital Era	Lev Manovich. “What is Digital Cinema”
5)	BIG SCREENS/Immersive VIEWS: 3D/IMAX/Google Earth	"Leon Gurevitch and Miriam Ross “STEREOSCOPIC MEDIA: Scholarship beyond Booms and Busts,” 3D Cinema and Beyond, eds. Dan Adler, Janine Marchessault and Sanja Obradovic (Intellect Books, 2013) pp 72-82. Anna Munster, “Welcome to Google Earth” in Arthur and Marilouise Kroker (eds), Critical Digital Studies Reader (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008, pp 397-416. Susan Stewart, “The Gigantic,” On Longing: Narratives of the Minature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection (Baltimore and London: John Hopkins University Press, 1984, pp. 70-102.)."
6)	Transmedia Storytelling	Mittell, Complex TV, “Transmedia Storytelling”
7)	Videogames & Experimental Modes of Narration	Henry Jenkins, “Game Design as Narrative Architecture” Gonzalo Frasca, “Ludologists Love Stories Too” Scott Higgins, “Seriality’s Ludic Promise”
8)	LOCATIVE MEDIA (mobiles- smartphones)
9)	VOD (Video on demand)
10)	Covid-19 Pandemic and Online Film Festivals
11)	Music Videos includes internet and new technologies (vine,360 degree, boomerang)
12)	Virtual Reality
13)	Bio-Art	Cary Wolfe, “From Dead Meat to Glow-in-the-Dark Bunnies: The Animal Question in Contemporary Art.” in What is Posthumanism? (2010), 145-168. Optional: Gregory Sholette, “The Unnameable” in Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture pp 135-151. Christina Agapakis and Sissel Tolaas, “The Inside-Out Body” in Synthetic Aesthetics: Investigating Synthetic Biology’s Designs on Nature (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2014), 271-282.
14)	THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FILMS AND AI

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	Lev Manovich. “What is Digital Cinema” Rodowick, The Virtual Life of Film
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	2
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	2
4)	Having a good command of the language and the aesthetics of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey	3
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	3
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	4
8)	Being able to transfer the footage of a film to the digital medium, to edit and do other post-production operations	4
9)	Being able to create a documentary audio visual moving image from the preliminary sketch stage to shooting, editing and post-production stages	3
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	4
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	3
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
Presentation	2	% 20
Midterms	1	% 30
Final	1	% 50
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 50
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 50
Total		% 100

İş Yükü ve AKTS Kredisi Hesaplaması

Activities	Number of Activities	Workload
Course Hours	14	42
Study Hours Out of Class	14	74
Presentations / Seminar	2	6
Midterms	1	3
Final	1	3
Total Workload		128