Film Yapımlarında Görsel Tasarım: Nuri Bilge Ceylan’ın Kuru Otlar Üstüne Filmi

Year 2026, Volume: 5 Issue: 1, 190 - 213, 01.02.2026

Tolga Gürocak , Sibel Timur

https://doi.org/10.58850/bodrum.1611815

Abstract

Sinema; müzik, anlatı ve görsellik gibi birçok sanat türünü bir araya getirmektedir. Bu bağlamda, resim ve fotoğraf sanatlarından büyük ölçüde etkilenmiştir. Sinema, diğer tüm görsel sanatlar gibi verilmek istenen mesajı izleyiciye görsel kompozisyon ve tasarım ilkeleri aracılığıyla aktarmaktadır. Bu çalışmanın amacı, sinema sanatında görsel tasarım ilkelerinin anlatı yapısına katkısını ortaya koymak ve bu katkıyı Nuri Bilge Ceylan’ın Kuru Otlar Üstüne adlı filmi üzerinden değerlendirmektir. Bu bağlamda, filmdeki anlatı yoğunluğu ve estetik tercihleri temel alınarak denge, tekrar, vurgu ve zıtlık görsel tasarım ilkelerinin sinematografik anlatıya nasıl entegre edildiği analiz edilmiştir. Araştırmada nitel araştırma yaklaşımı benimsenmiş, bu doğrultuda anlatı açısından yoğun ve görsel olarak karakteristik özellikler taşıyan on iki sahne seçilmiştir. Bu sahnelere ait ekran görüntüleri içerik analizi yöntemiyle değerlendirilmiştir. İnceleme sürecinde çerçeveleme, çekim ölçekleri, kamera açıları, ışık-gölge düzenlemeleri, renk kompozisyonu, derinlik, perspektif, görsel konumlandırma ve anlam inşası gibi sinematografik bileşenler temel alınmıştır. Elde edilen bulgular, tasarım ilkelerinin yalnızca görsel düzenlemeyi değil anlatının ritmini, tematik bütünlüğünü ve karakterlerin ruhsal durumlarını biçimlendiren yapısal araçlar olduğunu göstermektedir. Film bu yönüyle görsel anlatının düşünsel içerikle nasıl örtüşebileceğini başarılı biçimde ortaya koymaktadır.

Keywords

Sinema , Görsel tasarım , Tasarım İlkeleri , Nuri Bilge Ceylan , Kuru Otlar Üstüne

Visual Design in Film Productions: Nuri Bilge Ceylan's About Dry Grasses

Abstract

Cinema combines many art forms such as music, narrative, and visuality. In this context, it has been greatly influenced by the arts of painting and photography. Cinema, like all other visual arts, conveys the desired message to the audience through visual composition and design principles. This study aims to reveal the contribution of visual design principles to the narrative structure in the art of cinema and to evaluate this contribution through Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s About Dry Grasses. In this context, based on the narrative density and aesthetic preferences in the film, it is analyzed how balance, repetition, emphasis, and contrast visual design principles are integrated into the cinematographic narrative. A qualitative research approach was adopted in the study, and twelve narratively intense and visually characteristic scenes were selected through purposive sampling. Screenshots of these scenes were analyzed using the content analysis method. The analysis was based on cinematographic components such as framing, shot scales, camera angles, light-shadow arrangements, color composition, depth, perspective, visual positioning, and meaning construction. The findings show that design principles are structural tools that shape not only the visual arrangement but also the rhythm of the narrative, thematic integrity, and the mental states of the characters. In this respect, the film successfully demonstrates how visual narrative can intersect with intellectual content.

Keywords

Cinema , Visual Design , Principles of Design , Nuri Bilge Ceylan , About Dry Grasses

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