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Seren Yüce was born in Istanbul in 1975. He graduated from Bilkent University of Ankara, Archeology Department. Between 1999- 2005 he worked as 1st AD on television series. In 2006, he was the 1st AD in Özer Kızıltan's Takva / A Man's Fear of God and 1st AD in Fatih Akin's The Edge of Heaven. Recently, he was the 1st AD for Yeşim Ustaoğlu in Pandora's Box. Çoğunluk is his first feature length film.Çoğunluk is a piece of self-criticism: of myself, and of the Turkish society. [...] The film is set in Istanbul, which has the typical silhouette of any developing country's metropole, littered with a dusty mixture of yellow and grey concrete. I feel that Architecture is the clothing of a society. This "clothing" is therefore very important to me when thinking of the visual composition of the film. The way the city is clothed tells a lot about the place, its inhabitants, and affects their lifestyle, their interactions with fellow inhabitants. [...] My aim is to take a look at "us" through the story of a family. It would be wrong and inadequate to generalise and summarise Turkish society by Mertkan and his family's story. Turkey is built on many economic and cultural levels, it is composed of many diverse ethnic groups. The mentality of the ruling class is perpetuated widely into the society. Mertkan and his father are examples of this mentality and products of this perpetuation. At the moment there are numerous movements in Turkey which must be reckoned with in order to break this oppressing mentality. Through the film Çoğunluk, I sincerely hope to create some awareness among today's youth and the upcoming generations, reminding all of us that education and social change start, first and foremost, in the family.