In the present text I'm going to discuss the characterization of Sanem and Can as presented in the first part of the sixteenth episode of the romantic comedy “Erkenci Kus”, Early Bird in English.

In order to reach my objective I will follow scene after scene all that the director chose to do to introduce Sanem and Can' s personality.

The first scene projects Sanem's characterization trough the interaction between her and Can.

This is a direct approach because the author wants to tell us what he wants us to know about the character.

With this method of characterization there isn't any suspense or curiosity.

The watcher is immediately plunged in a tragic and dramatic situation. The effect is reinforced by the contrast between the screenplay and the relationship among Sanem and Can. The first scene is setting in a funfair that looks like a pleasant and funny location, in the other hand the two protagonist are in a bad and tragic situation.

Sanem is making an important confession , she says to Can that she is a big lie. The director just let her talk because he wants to raise curiosity and give the watcher the opportunity to find the film interesting.

The director focus his attention on macro details that besides raising the attention provided the reader with some features of Sanem's personality.

From such choice the watcher is compelled to focus of Sanem's body language, so you understand lots of things about her emotions.

Sanem has an important facial expression while Can looks stoned, so the purpose of avoiding direct speeches and using body language creates curiosity.

You can understand she is worry, confused, sad, and her voice is broken by tears.

From Can's attitude you can understand he is very confused and incredulous because he uses few words to talk to Sanem, who appears trapped by not knowing what he thinks, this communicates that she is afraid of losing him.

This is a technique used by the director to raise curiosity so that the reader will fell involved in the story and, as a result go to reading between the lines and put themselves to decide how the comedy will develop.

On a second moment Can looks angry, the director wants to underline his behaviors .. he continues to go back away from Sanem and uses a very high tone of voice, he also doesn't let her explain. For this reason the watcher will be on the side of Sanem, who passes on the side of the victim.

A more careful reading makes you understand that that he is rational while Sanem is emotional and reacts on impulse.

Can, although Sanem confesses to him to be entered in this house to recover a file for Emre, who is Can's brother, he doesn't pay attention to this because he focuses his attention on Sanem and on the person he thought he knew.

On a second scene appears Emre, who forced Sanem to steal the file from Can's house.

To tell the truth the shift from the previous scene and the one Emre appears on the screen is abrupt, the spectator is plunged from a funfair to a dark/gloomy and shady setting.

Indead the reader understands that the strategy chosen by the director is to underline that Emre continues to lie to Can.

From Can's behavior you can learn that he is more angry with himself than with Sanem, because he feels like a stupid to have believed her for all this time and to have considered her a different person.

Sanem, in the other hand, is worry because Can doesn't believe her even if she tries in every way to persuade and convince him to listen to her but without success.

The director wants to bring out Sanem's honesty who, besides telling the truth to Can, calls Emre and tells him that she confessed everything to his brother. She also tries to convince him to tell the truth to Can.