Cinematography Education in Turkey: Current Situation, New Perspectives and Suggestion

Abstract

The cinematography progressively adding up new horizons due to digital technological possibilities; the dimensions of production, fiction and presentation are taken new forms. This formation under the basis of different expression qualities constitutes a new artistic restructuring. In other words, digitalization in cinematography by redrawing aesthetic boundaries of visualization has already started to create an original cinematographic aesthetic. Performing some changes and transformations in the curricula of conventional cinematographic education appears as a mandatory necessity as digitalization is a distinct technological expression (lingo) and, as an extension to this, a distinct aesthetic structure. This study trying to scrutinize the current status of Turkish cinematographic education and the projections for future is constituted of two main complementary axis: one is the reactions of digital technology in cinematographic art and the other is in which vision and to what extend these reactions are considered in cinematographic education.