FILM TV 288AFeature Film Development I
Film and Television · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Course 288A is requisite to 288B. Practical hands-on approach to understanding and implementing producer’s role in development of feature film screenplay and negotiating particulars of production process. Through in-class discussions, script analysis, story notes, and select guest speakers, exposure to various entities that comprise feature film development process. Basic introduction to story and exploration of proper technique for evaluating screenplays through writing of coverage.
S/U or 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.
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.
FILM TV 288A
- FILM TV 288BFeature Film Development II
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.