ECONOMICS AND FINANCE
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
VCD3135	Animation Film	Spring	2	2	3	5

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Basic information

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 :	Dr. Öğr. Üyesi İPEK TORUN
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	This course focuses on teaching the students the basic principles of animation film; providing the ability to visualize a concept or a story by transferring to the storyboard based on a created scenario; gaining skills to have a control over scenerio-storyboard-movie process and getting the students to produce an animation short-film.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) Identify the general essentials of an animation film
2) Recognize the scenerio and grammer of film
3) Recognize the connections between storyboard and scenerio
4) Recognize the unity of scenerio and visual dialect
5) Learn how to use the model-sheet
6) Learn the releations among the background, foreground and scene
7) Study the releations between movement and rhythm
8) Gain skills to synchronize visual, dialogue, sound and music
9) Gain knowledge and skills about editing and effect
10) Study necessary software skills in order to realize an animation film

Course Content

Decision making process of an animation film's topic, according to the students ideas. Viewing of animation examples. Research the conceptual idea of the film and collect the visual and concept documentations. Evaluation of the student’s researchs. Study about scripting a scenerio, instruct about film gramer. Critique and advise about scenario sketches. instruct about storyboard. Plan the story visually suitable for the language of cinema. Study about Model-sheet. Planning the backgrounds, foregrounds and scenes in order to animate one to one. Animation studies, animate the plans. Montage the films of plans which are animated. Set the rhythm of film. Sound studies and effecks. Montage, join the visual and sound materials.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Decision making process of an animation film's topic, according to the students ideas. Viewing of animation examples. HW: research the conceptual idea of the film and collect the visual and concept documentations
2)	Evaluation of the student’s researchs. Study about scripting a scenerio, instruct about film gramer. HW: making sketches about scenario
3)	Critique and advise about scenario sketches. instruct about storyboard. HW: conclude the scenario and making sketches about storyboard
4)	Critique the storyboards: Plan the story visually suitable for the language of cinema. HW: conclude the storyboard and making sketches about lay-out and background
5)	Study about Model-sheet. HW: conclude the applications on class
6)	Planning the backgrounds, foregrounds and scenes in order to animate one to one HW: conclude the applications on class.
7)	Animation studies, animate the plans HW: conclude the applications on class, study about photoshop ve premiere
8)	Animation studies, animate the plans HW: conclude the applications on class, study about photoshop ve premiere
9)	Animation studies, animate the plans HW: conclude the applications on class, study about photoshop ve premiere
10)	Animation studies, animate the plans HW: conclude the applications on class, study about photoshop ve premiere
11)	Animation studies, animate the plans HW: conclude the applications on class, study about photoshop ve premiere
12)	Montage the films of plans which are animated. Set the rhythm of film HW: conclude the applications on class. Preparation of the dialague, sound and music suggestions
13)	Critique the montage and rhythm of film. Application of sound and music HW: conclude the applications on class, works about lay-out of credits and titles
14)	Montage, join the visual and sound materials HW: conclude the applications on class sound studies and - effecks HW: conclude the applications on class

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:
References:	'Understanding Animation’, Paul Wells ‘Understanding Comics’, Scott McCloud ‘Graphic Storytelling’, Will Eisner ‘Visualizing Ideas – From Scribbles to Storyboards’, Gregor Krisztian and Nesrin Schlempp

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Project	5	% 60
Final	1	% 40
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 0
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 100
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Workload
Course Hours	14	42
Study Hours Out of Class	13	73
Project	2	8
Final	1	7
Total Workload		130

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)	Build up a body of knowledge in mathematics and statistics, to use them, to understand how the mechanism of economy –both at micro and macro levels – works.	3
2)	Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies.	2
3)	Develop an awareness of different approaches to the economic events and why and how those approaches have been formed through the Economic History and understand the differences among those approaches by noticing at what extent they could explain the economic events.	1
4)	Analyze the interventions of politics to the economics and vice versa.	3
5)	Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches.	2
6)	Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating.	2
7)	Develop the communicative skills in order to explain the specific economic issues/events written, spoken and graphical form.	3
8)	Know how to formulate the economics problems and issues and define the solutions in a well-formed written form, which includes the hypothesis, literature, methodology and results / empirical evidence.	2
9)	Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative capabilities and provide evidence for the hypotheses and economic arguments.	2
10)	Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues.	3