COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ADAPTATION PRACTICES I

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FSS 3320 ADAPTATION PRACTICES I ELECTIVE 1 2 0 3

Offered By

Film Design and Screenwriting

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR ZÜHAL ÇETIN ÖZKAN

Offered to

Film Design and Screenwriting

Course Objective

Creating scenario and film adaptations of chosen stories and topics from different art disciplines and literary texts.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Analyse various cinema adaptations made from different art disciplines,
2   Analyse and adapt a topic chosen from domain of painting and photograph,
3   Be able to make poet analysis and conduct an adaptation project,
4   Make analysis and scenario adaptation of a chosen literary text (short story is preferred),
5   Make a film at the end of his adaptation works.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Relationship between different art disciplines and cinema adaptations
2 Relationship between different art disciplines and cinema adaptations
3 Analysis of painting and photography samples
4 Analysis of painting and photography samples
5 Creating story on a chosen picture
6 General informing about adaptations from poetry to cinema
7 Poetry analysis
8 General evaluation on choosing literary story and discussion
9 Analysis on chosen short stories
10 Adaptation of chosen stories to film language (scenario)
11 Adaptation of chosen stories to film language (scenario)
12 Evaluation of written stories
13 Film production work through a scenario work chosen
14 Film production work through a scenario work chosen

Recomended or Required Reading

Essays Sense and Narration on Cinema-Christian Metz
Pleasure of Text- Roland Barthes
Intertextual Relations-kubilay Aktulun
From words to Image-Orhan Ünser
Cherry Season and Movie Ticket-Hakan Savaş

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Analysis of film samples, scenario and film practices.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 PRJ PROJECT
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE PRJ * 0.50 + ASG * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

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 14 2 28
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Design Project 1 10 10
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 76

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