Fourth International Conference on Communication & Media Studies

Abstract

The media sector in Turkey has been revived in the 2000s, and the number of locally produced series has increased. The TV series named as Arka Sokaklar whose first episode was broadcasted in 2006, is still broadcasting in TV with its 523rd episode in its thirteenth year in 2019. The importance of Arka Sokaklar is that it was a witness to a big part of the era from the revival of media sector in Turkey to modern-day. It is also important that the watcher is still interested in this long lasting TV series. There were also differences between the previous episodes and the last episode in terms of the layout elements. In this study; in order to reveal the cinematographic development of Arka Sokaklar, the layout elements such as technical elements like prominent scales of shots, lenses, camera angles, the use of camera movements, image effects, and editing; and symbolic elements like sound, space and the use of depth of field are examined. Moreover, the dynamic rhythm of the series is discovered with examination of the comparison of the number of cuts and average of cuts; the number of sequence and sequence average between one episode from the first part and the last episode of Arka Sokaklar. In the lights of these data, it gives information about the contributions of the usage of developing technology and increasing cinematographic experience to developing era of series sector in Turkey.