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 |
VCD4153 | Creative Writing for Screen | Fall | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester. |
Language of instruction: | English |
Type of course: | Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi İPEK TORUN |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | none |
Course Objectives: | This course on creative writing for screen is designed for students interested in reading and writing broadly across a variety of genres and styles in literature and film. Considering the correspondences between writing in general and script-writing, literary and visual languages, students will be encouraged to think critically about creativity and to experiment with various forms and styles. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; 1) Define discourse, sound, creativity, visual and critical processes 2) Recognize various visual languages 3) Execute writing and criticising on visual and auditory examples 4) Identify writing and visualization in terms of inspiration, content, form and production. 5) Define the purposes and constraints of writing and visualization 6) Evaluate samples of moving image language 7) Execute skills to create text for moving images. |
In addition to reading various writers on topics such as discourse, voice, creativity, imaginative and critical processes, language usage and etc., students will also read, write, and critique original fiction and cinematic works. Class time will consist of discussion of assigned reading, writing assignments and experiments with language. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction | M. Blanchot: “The Relation of the Third Kind”/ “Interruption”/ “A Plural Speech” |
2) | What is a discourse? What is a discourse? Formal logic in writing | G. de Maupassant: “Necklace” / A. Chekhov: “About Love” / |
3) | What is a discourse? Discursive logic in writing | S. Burak: “Everest My Lord” / Deleuze: “Literature and Life” |
4) | Quantum of Writing: Oppositions Concrete/Abstract; Situations/Theories; Known/Unknown | H. Melville: “Bartleby” / J.L. Borges: “ Of Exactitude in Science” / F. Kafka: “ Troubles of a Householder” |
5) | "Finding a Voice Monologue /Dialogue / Multilogue | Plato: Republic X, / F. Nietzsche: excerpts from Ecce Homo / J. Joyce: excerpts from Giacomo Joyce |
6) | Grand Narrative | K. Mansfield: “Bliss” |
7) | V. Woolf: The Waves / S. Kane: 4.48 Psychosis | |
8) | Telling, Showing and Pointing to | Zafer Hanım: Aşk-I Vatan / I. Bachman: Malina / M. Blanchot: Thomas l’obscure |
9) | Objects and Places | J. Conrad: excerpts from “Heart of Darkness” / H.P. Lovecraft: excerpts from At the Mountains of Madness / J.G.Ballard: excerpts from The Atrocity Exhibition |
10) | Inside | G. Büchner: Lenz |
11) | Outside | R. Carver: “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love” |
12) | Is it possible to tell a proper story? | S. Beckett: excerpts from The Unnamable / P. Handke: Kaspar |
13) | Creating Situations in Writing | Artaud: “All Writing is Pig-shit” / H. Müller: The Father |
14) | Recapitulation |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Bu dersin kaynakları yukarıdaki haftalık ders programında ayrıntılı olarak belirtilmiştir. Derste temel kitap olarak dersin hocası tarafından derlenecek, okuma parçalarını içeren bir kitap okutulacaktır. |
References: | Film gösterimleri: Haneke / Benny’s Video Tarkovsky / Stalker Godard / Weekend Peter Greenaway / Falls Haneke / Code Unknown Todd Solondz / Palindromes Sarah Kane / Skin Aki Kaurismaki / La Vie de Bohéme Gaspar Noe / Irreversible Werner Herzog / The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | 14 | % 30 |
Homework Assignments | 6 | % 30 |
Final | 1 | % 40 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 60 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 40 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 2 | 28 |
Homework Assignments | 6 | 3 | 18 |
Final | 1 | 30 | 30 |
Total Workload | 118 |
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. | 4 |
3) | Qualify in design directing through analysis and design processes. | 1 |
4) | Display creative thinking, approach and production process skills. | 5 |
5) | Integrate basic fields of visual communication; print, time-based and interactive media, through mastering each one of these fields individually. | 1 |
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. | 1 |
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. | 1 |
11) | Perform necessary time management in order to complete a visual communication design project. | 3 |
12) | Demonstrate leadership qualities in a design team as well as individual skills during the progress of a visual communication design project. | 4 |
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. | 5 |