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| Course Goals |
The aim of the course is to teach students the stages of writing a television series script so that when they graduate they can take place on a team of professional writers for a television series.
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| Prerequisite(s) |
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| Corequisite(s) |
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| Special Requisite(s) |
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| Instructor(s) |
Assoc. Prof. Perihan TAŞ ÖZ |
| Course Assistant(s) |
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| Schedule |
This course is not offered this semester. |
| Office Hour(s) |
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| Teaching Methods and Techniques |
Online education will be provided through the IKU CATS digital platform with the help of written and visual resources. Lectures will be held synchronously every week, and exemplificative practical studies will take place on selected weeks. The midterm and final exams of the course will be delivered by submitting a project file within the date range specified on Cats. |
| Principle Sources |
Denny Martin Flinn, Senaryo Nasıl Yazılmaz, Kalkedon Yayınları, 2015.
Wendell Wellman. Senaryo Yazarının Yol Haritası. Altıkırkbeş Yayınları. 2010.
Robert Mckee, Diyalog, İstanbul Medya Akademisi Yayınlar, 1.Baskı, 2018 |
| Other Sources |
Unprinted television series scripts |
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| Course Schedules |
| Week |
Contents |
Learning Methods |
| 1. Week |
Introductory class and information on how the course will run |
Oral Presentation |
| 2. Week |
the principle dramatic and narrative elements of a television series script |
Oral Presentation / Written and Visual Sources |
| 3. Week |
the journey begins: finding an idea for a television series |
Oral Presentation / Practice |
| 4. Week |
watching the most successful and watched television series and analyzing their television series ideas. |
Oral Presentation / Written and Visual Sources |
| 5. Week |
“This is what the people want!”: the relationship between the series and the audience and the sociological, cultural and ideological references to this relationship |
Oral Presentation / Written and Visual Sources |
| 6. Week |
students will write their own television series idea that they have thought about and developed. |
Oral Presentation / Project Presentation |
| 7. Week |
evaluation and discussion of students’ television series ideas |
Oral Presentation / Practice |
| 8. Week |
the storyline as a dramatic writing step of the television series |
Oral Presentation / Written and Visual Sources |
| 9. Week |
the basic rules of writing a storyline |
Oral Presentation / Practice |
| 10. Week |
the main conflicts and side conflicts in a storyline of a television series |
Oral Presentation / Written and Visual Sources |
| 11. Week |
Basic Rules of “Chapter Story” Writing |
Oral Presentation / Practice |
| 12. Week |
Presentation and evaluation of students’ television series idea-storyline and first part |
Oral Presentation / Project Presentation |
| 13. Week |
Presentation and evaluation of students’ television series idea-storyline and first part |
Oral Presentation / Project Presentation |
| 14. Week |
Presentation and evaluation of students’ television series idea-storyline and first part |
Oral Presentation / Project Presentation |
| 15. Week |
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| 16. Week |
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| 17. Week |
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| 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 | The complete knowledge of how to write a script for a television series | | LO-2 | The complete knowledge of what needs to be included in a dossier to be taken to a producer for a television series | | LO-3 | The understanding of how the relationship works between a scriptwriter, director and producer in the professional world | | LO-4 | The possibility to take place in a professional team of scriptwriters for a television series | | LO-5 | The knowledge of what is necessary for the script of a successful television series and once in the professional world, the ability to differentiate between what is good and bad. | |
