FILM TV 15Introduction to Media Production
Film and Television · 4 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Limited to Film and Television majors. Students gain an understanding of the tools, techniques, strategies, processes, power structures, logistics, and financial implications that allow a media-maker to practice their craft in creation of content which can take numerous forms—fiction, nonfiction, alternative, advertising, web-based, among others. Overview of how an idea becomes real and tangible in visual-based media production. Through lectures, readings, writing, online interactions, and creating, students contemplate, articulate, and delve into various stages of media production.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.