FILM TV 163

Directing Cameras

Film and Television · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Limited to Film and Television majors. Investigation of expressive potential of image within and beyond narrative from directorial perspective. Experiments with working methodologies that stimulate visual creativity and positioning image as fundamental element of cinematic expression.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Fall 2025
Fall 2026

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

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Enforced requisite: course 101A.

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FILM TV 101A

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

FILM TV 163

FILM TV 101AJunior Symposium

1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

FILM TV 163

FILM TV 185Intermediate Undergraduate Film Production
- FILM TV C120Digital Cinematography
- FILM TV C152CDigital Audio Postproduction
- FILM TV 153Motion Picture Lighting
- FILM TV C154BAdvanced Film Editing