| Course Name | Senior Project II |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| CDM 498 | Spring | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
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| Course Language | English | ||||||||
| Course Type | Required | ||||||||
| Course Level | First Cycle | ||||||||
| Mode of Delivery | - | ||||||||
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| Course Coordinator | - | ||||||||
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| Assistant(s) | - | ||||||||
| Course Objectives | Senior Project is designed as a two-semester course where students will take complete responsibility of an individual creative project from scratch to post-production. Senior Project II focuses production and post-production, as the second part of this project period. Students will shape their projects around their intellectual, creative and professional interests. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | In this course, students focus on the production and post-production phases of their graduation project (idea development and pre-production parts are supposed to be completed in Senior Project I). The course method includes in class/online group and individual meetings. Individual meetings will be conducted by appointment. The course may also include lectures and/or workshops on specific themes based on the project needs of the students. During the term students will submit the following materials that will represent different phases of their developing projects: Production dossier (15%, assignment), raw footage (20%, 1st mid-term), rough cut (20%, 2nd mid-term), final cut (25%, project). Students are obliged to successfully complete each of these requirements for continuing with the next phases. |
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| Core Courses | X |
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| Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses |
| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Course Introduction (Class meeting) | |
| 2 | Production planning and scheduling I (Individual Appointments) | |
| 3 | Production planning and scheduling II (Individual Appointments) | Submission: Production dossier |
| 4 | Directing the Preproduction, Location Management, Set Design I (Individual Appointments) | |
| 5 | Directing the Preproduction, Location Management, Set Design II (Individual Appointments) | |
| 6 | Final Project Assignment | |
| 7 | Idea Development | Submission: Initial Ideas |
| 8 | Directing the Preproduction, Location Management and Set Design I | |
| 9 | Directing the Preproduction, Location Management and Set Design II | Submission: Production dossier |
| 10 | Directing the Production I | |
| 11 | Directing the Production II | |
| 12 | Review of raw footage | Submission: Rough cut |
| 13 | Editing I | |
| 14 | Editing II | |
| 15 | Postproduction and Sound Editing | Submission: Final cut |
| 16 | Screening |
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| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | ||
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | 3 | 75 |
| Presentation / Jury | ||
| Project | 1 | 25 |
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | ||
| Final Exam | ||
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | ||
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | ||
| Total |
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 6 | 96 |
| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
| Portfolio | |||
| Homework / Assignments | 3 | 25 | |
| Presentation / Jury | |||
| Project | 1 | 65 | |
| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | |||
| Final Exams | |||
| Total | 284 |
| # | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | To be able to define and discuss the history, underlying concepts and theories of cinema and digital media. | X | ||||
| 2 | To be able to develop a storytelling idea for cinema and digital media arts by using creativity and critical thinking. | X | ||||
| 3 | To be able to operate specialized technical equipment and competently use software in the fields of cinema and digital media arts. | X | ||||
| 4 | To be able to execute the main tasks in the pre-production, production and post-production of an audio-visual work at the basic level including screenwriting, production planning, operating the camera, sound recording, lighting and editing. | X | ||||
| 5 | To be able to perform a specialized task at an advanced level either for pre-production, production or post-production of an audio-visual work. | X | ||||
| 6 | To be able to discuss how meaning is made through works of cinema and digital media; in what ways economics, politics and culture affect visual representation; how the conditions of production, consumption, distribution and interpretation shape images. | X | ||||
| 7 | To be able to perform specialized tasks for creating digital media narratives with interactive elements. | X | ||||
| 8 | To be able to conduct a critical analysis of a film or a work of digital media arts from technical, intellectual and artistic points of view. | X | ||||
| 9 | To be able to take individual responsibility of a film or a digital media work from scratch to product in a problem-solving manner. | X | ||||
| 10 | To be able to work as a crewmember by following norms of ethical conduct and taking initiative to improve the ethical standards of his/her working environment. | X | ||||
| 11 | To be able to collect data in the areas of Cinema and Digital Media and communicate with colleagues in a foreign language ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1). | X | ||||
| 12 | To be able to speak a second foreign language at a medium level of fluency efficiently. | X | ||||
| 13 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest
