A STUDY ON THE VISUAL EXPRESSION OF CINEMATOGRAPHY CREATION CODES AND THE USAGE OF SPACE IN AN EPISODE OF NARCOS

After cinema, series are the most watched pieces by people all around the world in different context apart from television. To gain the interest of the viewer, the series’ produces aesthetic concerns and series story and acting in each section, which should provide visual interest for the audience. Visual expression includes narration, which is an integral part of the codes of cinematography such as camera usage, location selection, lighting, color, hair design, and make up, which have to be in harmony with each other. For the work of art that takes place in the past and the future, the visual products and codes of cinematographic narration and usage of space will be examined in a series way in this context. For this reason, this study questions the harmony between space with the cinematographic narration of “Narcos,” a period sequence that is followed all over the world. The purpose of the work is to find out how important visual expression codes and the usage of space are in the success of a visual product. In order to analyze location selection and usage as well as cinematographic narration, as a whole and coherently, this study is limited to the first two seasons of the Narcos series. The definition of cinematography, visual expression, and location selection and their usage are examined through Narcos