FILM TV 401Film Analysis for Filmmakers
Film and Television · 4 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Limited to graduate film and television students. Drawing heavily from array of historical examples, examination of many expressive strategies usable in creation of moving image art forms. Unifying theory and practice, presentation of approach to viewing great films of past that empowers filmmakers to use sound and images to tell original stories in present. Focus on strategic decision making in areas of writing, design, cinematography, editing, sound, and performance to enable filmmakers to discover their own personal style for telling stories on screen.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
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 401
- FILM TV 410EProduction
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.