COMMUNICATION AND DESIGN | |||||
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 | Spring | 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) | Create design oriented application for the visual communication design field. | |
2) | Resolve visual communication problems via concept based designs and an integrated perspective in the visual communication design field. | |
3) | Qualify in design directing through analysis and design processes. | |
4) | Display creative thinking, approach and production process skills. | |
5) | Integrate basic fields of visual communication; print, time-based and interactive media, through mastering each one of these fields individually. | |
6) | Identify complementary design solutions in the visual field in order to solve communication problems. | |
7) | Perform necessary operational skills in order to finalize products in the visual communication design field. | |
8) | Evaluate recent design trends and the evolving aesthetic perspectives. | |
9) | Use recent design softwares that coincide with the developing information technologies and communication channels. | |
10) | Interpret theoretical, historical and intellectual roots of the visual communication design field. | |
11) | Perform necessary time management in order to complete a visual communication design project. | |
12) | Demonstrate leadership qualities in a design team as well as individual skills during the progress of a visual communication design project. | |
13) | Display compositional solutions and aesthetic skills to fulfill design needs in a visual communication design work. | |
14) | Develop academical, intellectual and critical point of view for global, local and individual visual communication design works. | 3 |