PRODUCTION DESIGN, ART DIRECTION AND DRAMATURGY IN THE TURKISH CINEMA AFTER 1990
1990 SONRASI TÜRK SİNEMASINDA YAPIM TASARIMI, SANAT YÖNETMENLİĞİ VE DRAMATURGİ

Author : Serdar YILMAZ
Number of pages : 41-55

Abstract

The discussion of crucial but long neglected issue of the meaning, function and importance of production design and art direction with regard to movie production process in Turkey constitutes the main essence of this article. This article, therefore, discusses space design within the creative process of a movie, in other words the construction process of the space in movie and making significance of dramaturgy in the art direction in Turkey will be analyzed in the medium of certain films and creative –preparatory process of design, which entails drawings, drafts, and distinct stages of realization as experienced by three contemporary art directors and production designers in the last 20 years. Generally speaking, a movie consists of textual, visual and audio elements. While the sound-music stands for audio and script for the textual background, space, form-shape (accessories, furniture etc.), light-shadow, motion, actor/actress, color and texture altogether create the visual background. Disciplines such as painting, sculpture and architecture contribute to the making of movies and constitute the art direction of the film. The most significant point within the scope of art direction in movie production is its creation of a specific language exclusively for each single movie through fictionalizing a world by synthesizing all elements, textual, visual and audio. For the construction of space, the most important stage is the designing part. Analysis of the script, design of internal and external environment within which the movie characters live, determining and envisaging colors, and lastly dramaturgical analysis formed the most principal stages in pre-design process for movies.

Keywords

Cinema, Turkish Cinema, Dramaturgy, Production Design, Art Directing, Film Design

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