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

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code	Course Name	Semester	Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
FTV2941	Production Design in Film and TV	Fall	2	2	3	5

This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester.

Basic information

Language of instruction:	English
Type of course:	Departmental Elective
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
Course Coordinator :	Prof. Dr. NİLAY ULUSOY
Course Objectives:	An introductory course in the principles of Production Design. The course addresses all the aspects of preparation before the actual drafting of plan, fabrication of models, and the building of sets. The course will consist of lectures, film/TV viewings, student projects, guest speakers from the industry, and outside readings. The student projects will give the student experience in: script breakdown, planning a set, preparing a budget, color lighting, and related research.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
"1) to introduce the student to the world of the
Production Designer"
2) to establish a basic design vocabulary
3) to give the student experience with various aspects of forming a design concept based on a script
4) to give the student first hand information about current productions through the appearance of guest speakers
5) to prepare the student for practical applications in the field of production design/art direction
"6) students should be able to translate abstract verbal ideas and concepts into a visual
vocabulary and structure"

Course Content

"The course content includes: the structure of the Art Department and the duties of each member of the department, fundamentals of design, application of design principles to film and television, preparation and procedures for production design, research,
storyboarding, designing for special effects, designing for location, working with a limited budget."

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	What is the role of the production designer? Compare the design of two movies
2)	Finish introduction. Historical perspective: compare and contrast Trip to the Moon with The Great Train Robbery.
3)	Screen Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. How did the designers control the audience’s eye and still create such a complex visual world?
4)	Breaking down the script. We will work together on the first 10 pages to identify scenes, sets, characters, props, costumes and special effects.
5)	Screen documentary on role of production designer.
6)	Mise-en-scene space/framing. Students are given set assignments.
7)	Mise-en-scene graphics. Line/shape and form/size/orientation and movement.
8)	Mise-en-scene tone and color. Itten, The Elements of Color.
9)	Screen Vertigo Expect to stay an hour longer on the evening of this screening. Written assignment/design concepts due.
10)	Screen Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons. Discuss relationship between source material and script.
11)	Storyboarding: in-class exercise.
12)	Budgeting
13)	Pitch class and review.
14)	Final Project

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	Uluoğlu, B., Enşici, A., & Vatansever, A. (Eds.). (2006). Design and Cinema: Form Follows Film. Cambridge Scholars Pub., Zettl, H. (2013). Sight, sound, motion: Applied media aesthetics. Cengage Learning.
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Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Presentation	2	% 30
Project	2	% 30
Final	1	% 40
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 30
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 70
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Workload
Course Hours	14	42
Study Hours Out of Class	14	42
Presentations / Seminar	2	6
Project	2	40
Final	1	4
Total Workload		134

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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	2
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	4
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	3
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	2
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