COURSE UNIT TITLE

: LIGHTING AND DIRECTING PHOTOGRAPHY I

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FKS 4523 LIGHTING AND DIRECTING PHOTOGRAPHY I ELECTIVE 3 3 0 6

Offered By

Sound Editing and Cinematography

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

INSTRUCTOR NIHAN BENCOYA

Offered to

Cinema and Television
Sound Editing and Cinematography

Course Objective

This course comprises the teaching of historical development of principles of basic camera and lighting technologies in cinema and TV productions, camera, camera movements, camera angles, shooting scales, lighting, qualities of lighting and also practical teaching of cinematography director.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Ability to define and choose the appropriate CAmera and Lighting accessories fort he film Project
2   Ability to be acquianted with the shooting and lighting devices and to use them.
3   To Know the general shooting and lighting terminology.
4   Ability to operate the camera and lighting accessories.
5   Ability to set the necessary shooting, lighting and filtering milieu in order to enable shooting of a scene.
6   Ability to operate all the auxillary shooting and lighting accessories
7   To possess the necessary knowledge fort he cinematography of productions such as documentary,clip,commercial or drama.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 What is the camera, the camera's basic parts, Lenses
2 BASIC CAMERA MOVEMENTS Movements by the camera body and by the lens. Camera movements by modifying location
3 Narratives created by the use of lenses
4 Basic shooting scales
5 Axle Line Applications
6 Framing rules
7 Determining camera angle.
8 LIGHTING : Hard Light, Hard Light Sources Fresnel Lighting Sources Ellipsodial Spot Lights
9 SOURCES AND USES of scattered light: scattered Light Sources, Soft Light
10 Lighting: Direction of light , lighting a flat surface, lighting individuals and the human groups, area lighting, lighting Production Techniques, Lighting Technique
11 TYPES OF LIGHTING AND SHOOTING TECHNIQUES Chiaroscuro Lighting Rembrandt Lighting, Silhouette Lighting ,Cameo Lighting
12 Application
13 Application
14 Application

Recomended or Required Reading

Main Source: Cinematography, theory and practice Blain Brown
Auxillary sources: Lighting in Cinema and video Blain Brown

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Courses:
The teacher directs the students to make a Project and demands that examples will be filmed.


Checking and analyzing new Technologies:
The encountered practical skills met during the application studio practices and project development phase, will be shown in practice by the instructor, in the first and the last hour of the course each week. The participation of students in class discussions, and presentation of their ideas and views on the preparation of projects will be encouraged significantly.

Applications
In the process of application and project, students will be informed through a model Project, about the method they should use in the production phase .

Assessment Methods

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

1.Students will prepare Project in a genre of their choice, using the camera and lighting systems.

2. Using different camera and lighting types the student will be able to design creative lighting techniques.

3. Marks obtained by student participation will depend on , (1) the state of attendance, (2) the student's answers to the questions asked by the instructor during the class and quality of project work in the classroom (3) the student's contribution for the creation of a positive learning environment.

Assessment Criteria

Attendance in homework and projects applications, perception and skill proficiency will be considered.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. Attendance of 70% is obligatory.
2. Unattendance of the course will not be considered as a valid excuse for the homework assignments and projects that are submitted late.
3.Delayed Project: for each day of delay the final mark will be reduced by the equivalent to a letter grade .

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 15 2 30
Case study 15 2 30
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 15 4 60
Preparing assignments 1 4 4
Field study 7 3 21
Design Project 1 15 15
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 160

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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