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
POV3213	History of Camera Images I	Fall	3	0	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:	Non-Departmental Elective
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
Course Coordinator :	Dr. Öğr. Üyesi PRÖHL JOCHEN JAKOB
Course Lecturer(s):	Prof. Dr. NAZLI EDA NOYAN CELAYİR Assoc. Prof. LEWIS KEIR JOHNSON Prof. Dr. HASAN KEMAL SUHER
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	This course aims to provide histories of camera-images that can inform and enable your development as critical practitioners. The course will review key events in the history of photography and film as picture-making activities, from early attempts to fix images of light to the end of the First World War.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1. Discriminate between different accounts of the invention of photogaphic images.
2. Relate the emergence of photographic images to prior histories of images and visual culture.
3. Assess the relationship between photographic images and truth-claims made for them.
4. Understand variety of early photographic techniques.
5. Understand variety of genres of uses of early photography.
6. Appreciate reasons for shifts in truth claims for photographic images.
7. Understand variety of purposes for the emergence of filmic images and relations with science and with traditions of public entertainment.
8. Develop understanding of shifts in relations between camera-images and the status and identity of objects as art.
9. Develop understanding of shifts in status of camera-images as documents, documentary and reportage.
10. Explore traditions of camera-images inventively.

Course Content

The course will consider ways in which the technical powers of photography have been used by innovative practitioners. It explores the ways in which different photographic and film practices have been involved in different claims to truth and knowledge. It reviews the emergence of different film practices. It explores the differences between genres, assessing the relation between formal innovation in film practice and socio-political, including institutional, changes.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction: Camera-images, history, time, narrative and memory
2)	Assignment I	Working on the assignments.
3)	Photography: inventions and directions	Weekly readings will be assigned.
4)	Early photographic portraiture	Weekly readings will be assigned.
5)	Early photographic landscape	Working on the assignments.
6)	Assignment II	Working on the assignments.
7)	Midterm; screening of early film	Weekly readings will be assigned.
8)	Early film and early cinema I: science and the rationalisms of movement	Weekly readings will be assigned.
9)	Early film and early cinema II: varieties of the staging of film	Weekly readings will be assigned.
10)	Photography and film alter art: responses to camera images in modern art	Weekly readings will be assigned.
11)	Art alters photography and film: modernism and avant-garde photographic and filmic practices	Weekly readings will be assigned.
12)	Assignment III	Working on the assignments.
13)	Genres of reportage, documentary, fiction, fantasy and fashion	Weekly readings will be assigned.
14)	Presentations for and discussion of visual essay assignments; revision	Working on the presentations.

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	Mary Warner Marien, Photography: A Cultural History, 2nd edition, Laurence King, London, 2006; Ian Jeffrey, Revisions: An Alternative History of Photography, National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, England, 1999; Geoffrey Batchen, Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography, The MIT Press, 1999.
References:	Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (Metropolitan Museum, NY): http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?s=all&t=all&d=photographs&x=21&y=15 Victoria and Albert Museum, Photography: http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/p/photography/

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Attendance	1	% 15
Homework Assignments	2	% 20
Midterms	1	% 25
Final	1	% 40
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 60
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 40
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	14	3	42
Study Hours Out of Class	14	5	70
Homework Assignments	2	5	10
Midterms	1	2	2
Final	1	2	2
Total Workload			126

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	4
2)	Having comprehensive knowledge regarding different media and branches of art	3
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	1
4)	Having a good command of the language and the aesthetics of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey	1
5)	Being able to create a narrative that could be used in a fiction or a non-fiction audio-visual moving image product	2
6)	Being able to write a script ready to be shot	2
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
8)	Being able to transfer the footage of a film to the digital medium, to edit and do other post-production operations
9)	Being able to create a documentary audio visual moving image from the preliminary sketch stage to shooting, editing and post-production stages
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
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	5