Short Film / Türkiye
Yankı
A quiet, autumnal short about memory and the distance a person carries with them.
- Role
- Director & Producer
- Location
- Türkiye
- Development
- ~15 days
Overview
A visual film titled "Yankı" (Echo), developed as a narrative piece built on performance and cinematic direction, with a focus on constructing a complete visual world that serves the idea through image, movement and sound. The project was built from the ground up — from concept through to the final image.
Role
Director & Producer. I held full oversight of the project — developing the concept, building the narrative structure, overseeing production, and directing every element of the work through to the film’s final form.
Scope
Development and prep ran across roughly 15 days, covering the film’s core idea, script and narrative construction, defining the visual style references, running rehearsals with the cast, planning and dressing locations, and directing performance. The project was run as a fully integrated production process — from idea through to final sound and image.
Concept
The film builds a visual experience rooted in performance within a pre-designed environment, so that feeling and narrative emerge from the actor’s interaction with the image rather than dialogue or direct exposition. The work was developed in a style that pairs cinematic storytelling with full control over every visual element, while leaving a calculated space for improvisation within the performance.
Execution
Execution followed an intensive prep period covering concept development, scriptwriting, and preparing the cast through rehearsals before the shoot. Filming took place across pre-selected environments chosen to serve the film’s visual state, with close attention to lighting control, composition and camera movement to keep the visual world consistent. Sound and edit were treated as a core part of the directing process rather than a separate later stage, which helped preserve a single style from concept through to the final cut. The main challenge was holding the work together as one coherent film across multiple production stages, and making sure the idea carried through cleanly from page to final image.