FILM TV 153Motion Picture Lighting
Film and Television · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Limited to Film and Television majors. Introduction to principles and tools of lighting used in visual storytelling through lectures, discussions, and screenings. Creative lighting techniques covering topics such as people, environment, spatial relationships, movement, color, special effects, and continuity.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisites: courses 52, 101A, 185.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
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Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
FILM TV 153
- FILM TV 101AJunior Symposium
- FILM TV 185Intermediate Undergraduate Film Production
- FILM TV 154Film Editing
- FILM TV 150Cinematography
- FILM TV 155Introduction to Digital Media and Tools
- FILM TV 163Directing Cameras
2 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 9 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
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.