{"id":11386,"date":"2025-06-10T11:18:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T11:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/?post_type=previous-courses&#038;p=11386"},"modified":"2025-08-25T08:03:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T08:03:47","slug":"fundamentals-of-scriptwriting","status":"publish","type":"previous-courses","link":"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/tr\/previous-courses\/winter-2020-21\/fundamentals-of-scriptwriting\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundamentals of Scriptwriting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-a662079b\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-7b60fd04\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-e0d64d06\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-e0d64d06\">\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-93552f31\">\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-98bef43c gb-headline-text\">Fundamentals of Scriptwriting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-f91c37b5 gb-headline-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/faculty\/#gulengul-altintas-anchor\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1387\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">G\u00dcLENG\u00dcL ALTINTA\u015e<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-3a30ea48 gb-tabs\" data-opened-tab=\"1\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-84f8d681 gb-tabs__buttons\">\n\n<button class=\"gb-button gb-button-a79c01e0 gb-button-text gb-tabs__button gb-block-is-current\" id=\"gb-tab-button-a79c01e0\">Overview<\/button>\n\n\n\n<button class=\"gb-button gb-button-bfd101b8 gb-button-text gb-tabs__button\" id=\"gb-tab-button-bfd101b8\">Course Outline<\/button>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-7f59097b gb-tabs__items\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-f5c5f721 gb-tabs__item gb-tabs__item-open\" id=\"gb-tab-item-f5c5f721\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-68c7fb24 gb-headline-text\">Overview<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Using contemporary Turkish Cinema as a case study, the main objective of this introductory course is to provide participants with a general knowledge on cinematic storytelling as a political instrument. Throughout the course, participants will improve their skills for reading and writing film and gain the ability to analyze movies with regards to their political impact. The films which will be analyzed in class will vary in period, genre and country of production, yet the focus will be kept on what has been called \u2018Young Turkish Cinema\u2019 and the specific narrative and activist qualities of these films reminiscent of Eastern Dramatic Circle. Each student will develop a short film script on their own throughout the semester as their course project. In and off-class writing exercises will be assigned to improve students\u2019 practice of writing with image and sound. Lectures will cover the basics of screenwriting to introduce students to the dramatic necessities of fiction film narrative in general and the features of politically motivated movies in particular. Lectures will be followed by in-class discussions of the films in the weekly plan. Students are expected to see the films in advance and participate in the discussions. Selected films will vary from classical examples to examples of new cinemas around the world &#8211; with a special interest on both historical and contemporary Turkish Cinema and its embedment within political organizing. The course is designed for students from all disciplines. Being a film lover and willing to write is the only pre-requisite for the course.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-79414423 gb-tabs__item\" id=\"gb-tab-item-79414423\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-28db6432 gb-headline-text\">Course Outline<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text\">You can see and download the course syllabus below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-3120ace5\">\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/fundamentals-of-scriptwriting-syllabus-W20.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:813px\" aria-label=\"fundamentals-of-scriptwriting-syllabus-W20 g\u00f6m\u00fcs\u00fc.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-46a7ef66-1b74-4ee8-a2c5-59d27b477213\" href=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/fundamentals-of-scriptwriting-syllabus-W20.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fundamentals-of-scriptwriting-syllabus-W20<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-bc3fa32e\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-bc3fa32e\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-233f353f\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-e4125b44 gb-headline-text\">Course Details<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-b921c8c1\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-70b4f9b1\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-203abde0\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-203abde0\">\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Duration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-7f61003f\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-7f61003f\">\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">03.11.20 &#8211; 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