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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) | To be able to critically interpret and discuss the theories, the concepts, the traditions, and the developments in the history of thought which are fundamental for the field of new media, journalism and communication. | |
2) | To be able to attain written, oral and visual knowledge about technical equipment and software used in the process of news and the content production in new media, and to be able to acquire effective abilities to use them on a professional level. | |
3) | To be able to get information about the institutional agents and generally about the sector operating in the field of new media, journalism and communication, and to be able to critically evaluate them. | |
4) | To be able to comprehend the reactions of the readers, the listeners, the audiences and the users to the changing roles of media environments, and to be able to provide and circulate an original contents for them and to predict future trends. | |
5) | To be able to apprehend the basic theories, the concepts and the thoughts related to neighbouring fields of new media and journalism in a critical manner. | |
6) | To be able to grasp global and technological changes in the field of communication, and the relations due to with their effects on the local agents. | |
7) | To be able to develop skills on gathering necessary data by using scientific methods, analyzing and circulating them in order to produce content. | |
8) | To be able to develop acquired knowledge, skills and competence upon social aims by being legally and ethically responsible for a lifetime, and to be able to use them in order to provide social benefit. | |
9) | To be able to operate collaborative projects with national/international colleagues in the field of new media, journalism and communication. | |
10) | To be able to improve skills on creating works in various formats and which are qualified to be published on the prestigious national and international channels. |