FILM TV 409Directing Actors for Camera Workshop
Film and Television · 4 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Limited to MFA production program students. Team-taught with five weeks designed to give director actor/camera techniques, and five weeks to offer basic strategies to elicit good performances from actors. Emphasis on problems faced when directing actors for film.
S/U or 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 409
- FILM TV 402AAdvanced Narrative Directing Workshop
- FILM TV 402BAdvanced Narrative Directing Workshop
- FILM TV 402CAdvanced Narrative Directing Workshop
- FILM TV C403AAdvanced Documentary Workshop
- FILM TV C403BAdvanced Documentary Workshop
- FILM TV C403CAdvanced Documentary Workshop
- FILM TV 404AAdvanced Abstract/Experimental Media Workshop
- FILM TV 404CAdvanced Abstract/Experimental Media Workshop
- FILM TV 404BAdvanced Abstract/Experimental Media Workshop
- FILM TV 410DPostproduction Sound
- FILM TV 410EProduction
8 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 13 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.