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Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
PRL4545 | Public Relations and Visuality | Fall | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
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Language of instruction: | English |
Type of course: | Non-Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Instructor SİNEM İNCE |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Instructor SİNEM İNCE |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
Course Objectives: | In this course the students will get familiar with the concepts of visual production and communication tools. They will learn how video productions and other visual communication media are used in public relations; also they will practice in the field while learning how to use the communication tools. They will gain knowledge about visual arts and productions in the following areas of work in public relations: corporate public relations, broadcast, news releases. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; Students will be able to analyse public relations target publics and relation between research skills and visual communication tools. Students will be able to design a new visual world which works with research results. Students will be able to learn relationship between imagination and script writing. Students will be able begin creative copywriting studies for visual communications with using words and visuality passages combine to visual signs. Students will be able to define emotions and design the production. Students will be able to begin to use technical equipment for the coordination of motor-skills. Students will be able to analyse how sight, sound and motion calls emotions, while learning the relationship between words and signs. Students will be able to use camera, editing programmes and other visual media tools. Students will be able to put the implementation steps of a visual production and create a strategy of visuality. |
In this course, students will learn about the topics of visual productions, writing storyboards, camera, graphics, lighting, voice, music, trailers, corporate education films, video productions in media relations and news releases. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | What is your target in visual productions? How can you find information? | |
2) | Writing, storyboard and first step to production | |
3) | Visual Production Overview Camera-graphics | |
4) | Visual Production Overview Lighting-Voice-Music | |
5) | Visual Production Overview Last Part - Editing | |
6) | How does Visual Production Process Work in PR? | |
7) | How Visual Productions works with PR? Image films with examples | |
8) | What is trailer? How can you product trailers? With examples | |
9) | How can you product corporate education films for companies? | |
10) | Public Relations in TV Programs - How to use visual PR activites in Tv Programs | |
11) | Video Productions and Media Relations | |
12) | Video News Releases | |
13) | Video News Releases with examples | |
14) | Review For The Final Exam |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Visual Communication: Images with Messages Paul Martin Lester 2013 |
References: |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Application | 3 | % 10 |
Homework Assignments | 2 | % 10 |
Midterms | 1 | % 30 |
Final | 1 | % 50 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 50 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 50 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
Course Hours | 13 | 39 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 13 | 39 |
Presentations / Seminar | 2 | 6 |
Project | 7 | 41 |
Homework Assignments | 1 | 3 |
Midterms | 1 | 3 |
Final | 1 | 3 |
Total Workload | 134 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | As a world citizen, she is aware of global economic, political, social and ecological developments and trends. | 2 |
2) | He/she is equipped to closely follow the technological progress required by global and local dynamics and to continue learning. | 2 |
3) | Absorbs basic economic principles and analysis methods and uses them to evaluate daily events. | 2 |
4) | Uses quantitative and statistical tools to identify economic problems, analyze them, and share their findings with relevant stakeholders. | 2 |
5) | Understands the decision-making stages of economic units under existing constraints and incentives, examines the interactions and possible future effects of these decisions. | 1 |
6) | Comprehends new ways of doing business using digital technologies. and new market structures. | 2 |
7) | Takes critical approach to economic and social problems and develops analytical solutions. | 1 |
8) | Has the necessary mathematical equipment to produce analytical solutions and use quantitative research methods. | 2 |
9) | In the works he/she contributes, observes individual and social welfare together and with an ethical perspective. | 2 |
10) | Deals with economic problems with an interdisciplinary approach and seeks solutions by making use of different disciplines. | 1 |
11) | Generates original and innovative ideas in the works she/he contributes as part of a team. | 2 |