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SİNEMATELEVİZYONDERGİSİ EYLÜL2014
ŞÜKRÜAVŞAR
işletmeciliği, film ithalatı, dizi yapımcılığı şeklinde de
devam ediyoruz.
FS: Sektöre yıllarını vermiş bir yapımcı olarak
dizi sektörünü nasıl değerlendiriyorsunuz?
ŞÜKRÜ AVŞAR: Televizyon’da 15 yıldan beri her sene
aynı işler yapılıyor. 80 ile 85 arası irili ufaklı dizi çekiliyor. Eylül ayında ise yeni diziler başlayacak, seyirci
içerisinden aldığını alacak, almadığını bırakacak ve
bir dizi çöplüğü oluşacak. Bir grup diziler ise Kasım
ayında şansını deneyecek, aralarında yürüyen işler
olacak. Mart ayında ise yeniden denemeler olacak.
Tutan diziler tutacak, tutunamayanlar da dökülecek.
Neticede, senede baktığınız zaman irili ufaklı dört ya
da beş dizi tutacak.
production.
FS: As a producer, who gave his years to the industry, how would you assess the TV series industry?
ŞÜKRÜ AVŞAR: People have been doing the same
thing in television for 15 years. There are between 80
to 85 large and small scale series. In September, new
series will begin, the audience will take whichever they
choose, leave away the rest and there will be a landfill
of TV series. A group of series will also try their luck
in November, some of them will work. In March, there
will be new attempts. Successful ones will hold on,
and unsuccessful ones will go down. As a result, when
you look at it, four or five big and small series will be
successful in a year.
I LIKE NEITHER MY OWN WORK
NOR OTHERS’ WORKS
FS: Are there TV series that you like and watch?
ŞÜKRÜ AVŞAR: As a producer, I never like neither my
own work nor others’ works too much and say “what a
fine job I’ve done”. From time to time, there have been
many series I appreciated. I am always trying to do
better. If you say “I’ve done a great show, there is none
better”, it is finished. I always believe that there is a
better one.
I DON’T BEGIN A WORK IF I DON’T TRUST IT
FS: People say “Şükrü Avşar does no one else
does, he shoots 2 or 3 episodes of some shows
and presents them to the channels”.
Isn’t this is a serious risk?
ŞÜKRÜ AVŞAR: I don’t begin a work if I don’t trust it
already. I do not have a mentality where I say “Let’s
sell this first, get money from the channel and secure
myself”. This mindset would be cheating the channel
and yourself in the short-term. If it’s a work I believe
in, I make my investment, then I say: “Come my friends,
watch it, and buy if you like”. I usually work like this in
all my businesses.
HOUSE OF NIGHTMARES WAS AN EXPERIMENT,
MY PURPOSE WAS TO BECOME A PIONEER
Our House of Nightmares (Kabuslar Evi) project was
an experiment. I shot 13 episodes and delivered it for
broadcasting. It was not so successful but I still eval-