The aim of the course is to teach the student about documentary film history and the knowledge on the preparation on how to make a documentary. The course will include a look at the history and development of documentary film, the documentary types, political documentary and the development of documentary film in Turkey. This course will allow students to begin to think about their own documentary film ideas that they will have to shoot the following semester. At the end of the course, the students will be asked to present the project that they will shoot the following semester.
Prerequisite(s)
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Corequisite(s)
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Special Requisite(s)
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Instructor(s)
Lecturer Dr. Selda Salman Sakızlı
Course Assistant(s)
Res. Asist. Buğra Mert Alkayalar
Schedule
Thursday, 09:00-11:45
Office Hour(s)
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Teaching Methods and Techniques
The course will include screenings of important films in the history of documentary filmmaking. The screenings will allow students to see different approaches to documentary filmmaking and will allow them to think about their own projects for the following semester.
Principle Sources
Bill Nichols, Belgesel Sinemaya Giriş, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınevi, 2017
Brian Winston, Belgesel Sinema Kitabı, İstanbul: Ayrıntı Yayınları, 2021
Other Sources
Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
What is a documentary? Information given on the course and student projects
Oral presentation
2. Week
British Documentary School. Screening: Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty, 1922)
Oral presentation
3. Week
The Soviet Union and Social Realism Screening: The Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
Oral presentation
4. Week
Documentary film in Turkish cinema: Fuat Uzkınay, San Stefano and the War of Independence
Oral presentation
5. Week
Documentary film, propaganda and World War II. Screening: Triumph of the Will ((Leni Riefenstahl, 1935)
Oral presentation
6. Week
Midterm Exam
Project,
7. Week
Cinema Vérité. Screening: Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman and John Marshall, 1967)
Oral presentation
8. Week
The development of documentary cinema in Turkey. Screening: Safrabolu’da Zaman (Süha Arın, 1977)
Oral presentation
9. Week
Poetic documentaries. Screening: Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)
Oral presentation
10. Week
Follow-up on student projects
Oral presentation
11. Week
The “mockumentary”. Screening: This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984)
Oral presentation
12. Week
The documentary film director. Screening: Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore, 1992)
Oral presentation
13. Week
Recent Documentary filmmaking in Turkey. Screening: Oyun (Pelin Esmer, 2005)
Oral presentation
14. Week
Documentary film and activism: Do it Yourself Practices
Oral presentation
15. Week
Presentation of student projects
Project,
16. Week
Presentation of student projects
Project,
17. Week
Final Exam
Project,
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Midterm(s)
1
20
Homework / Term Projects / Presentations
1
10
Project(s)
1
20
Project
1
10
Final Exam
1
40
Program Outcomes
PO-1
Communication, art and culture related concepts to be priorities, all kinds of definitions can berelated to different areas.
PO-2
Interpret technological developments and related artistic and cultural perceptions
PO-3
Will be able to understand contemporary / contemporary cinema and television practices.
PO-4
Will be able to analyze the organic relationship between art, communication and society.
PO-5
Will be able to produce works that will learn the creative process and bring creativity to the foreground
PO-6
It will be able to work creatively, flexibly and independently in a disciplined and self-created line.
PO-7
Will be able to use the tools and equipment necessary for their profession in the right place and at the right time and will be able to implement their projects within the determined time.
PO-8
Will be able to express his / her creative ideas using visual messages.
PO-9
They will be able to give original products in different interdisciplinary fields like animation, photography, cinema.
PO-10
He will have experience in film management, screenplay, cinematography and editing.
PO-11
Will be able to prepare visual effects for cinema and television using computer based applications.
PO-12
He will have experience in acting, mimicry, dramatic improvisation.
PO-13
Be open to innovations in the field of mass communication and adapt to innovations in the field.
PO-14
It will be able to produce projects with experienced experts in national and international areas.
PO-15
Competitions, exhibitions, festivals, seminars etc. in national and international areas. will participate in the events.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
Knowledge of documentary film history
LO-2
Recognition of the way a documentary film story is told and its difference from fiction film and a television news show
LO-3
Knowledge on the richness of the documentary language
LO-4
Understanding that a documentary can never be objective and that it delivers a point of view.
LO-5
Knowledge on the range of stylistic choices to make and the beginning of the thought process for their own documentaries
