COURSE UNIT TITLE

: FILM INDUSTRY AND FILM FESTIVALS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FBS 2230 FILM INDUSTRY AND FILM FESTIVALS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 2

Offered By

Film Design and Directing

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

INSTRUCTOR UFUK TAMBAŞ

Offered to

Performance Arts
Accessory Design
Play Writing-Dramaturgy
Stage Design
Animation Film Design and Directing
Film Design and Directing
Carpet Kilim Old Fabric Patterns
Ceramic and Glass Design
Illustration and Printmaking
Painting
Musicology
Sculpture
Photography
Sound Editing and Cinematography
Ancient Turkish Calligraphy
Textile Design
Film Design and Screenwriting
Restorations of Ancient Tile
Fashion Clothing Design
Graphic Design
Music Technology

Course Objective

Evaluating the general organization of film industries, examining the main examples of Hollywood, Bollywood and recent Nigerian example Nollywood along with the cinemas of other countries that don t have major film industrial structures. Also, establishment of major and minor film festivals and their impacts will be dealt with the contributions to the film cultural in general.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   1. Have information on the industrial aspects of cinema in general,
2   2. Being able to evaluate and learn film industries and national cinemas in different scales,
3   3. Have information on international and national film festivals,
4   4. Making deductions of the impacts of film festivals on film production,
5   5. Having information on the ways of production within industrial organisation and their alternatives, .

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 General content and description of the subject.
2 What is film industry Hollywood
3 What is film industry Hollywood
4 `Independent cinema and relations with industry
5 Alternative film industries: Bollywood
6 Alternative film industries: Nollywood and other rising cinemas
7 General structure of European Cinema
8 General structure of European Cinema
9 Minor cinemas
10 Major international film festivals
11 Major international film festivals (in relation with national cinemas)
12 Themed film festivals
13 Film festivals in Turkey
14 Film festivals in Turkey
15 MIDTERM

Recomended or Required Reading

Dünya sinema tarihi, Geoffrey Nowel-Smith, Kabalcı yayınları, 2003.
Film Sanatı, David Bordwell- Kristin Thompson, Deki Yayınları, 2012.
Film Festivals From European Geopolitics to Global Cinephilia- Marijke de Valck, Amsterdam Uni. Press, 2007.
Sundance to Sarajevo, Film Festivals and the World They Made- Kenneth Turan, University of California Press, 2002.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

In classes, cinema and industrial organisations and their working methods and film festivals will be examined with current examples.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Students are expected to answer exam questions from their own perspective and interpretations.

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules


1. Attendance to %80 of the courses is obligatory,
2. Any attempt of plagiarism will meet disciplinary penalty.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 1 14
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 5 2 10
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 59

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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