FILM TV 411BModes of Making: Documentary
Film and Television · 4 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Exploration of craft and form of documentary filmmaking through series of synchronous and asynchronous film projects. Viewing, discussion, and practicing of interview, vérité, animated, and hybrid documentary approaches. Students work in partnerships and small crews to rotate and produce work in collaboration. Contemporary debates around documentary representation and film ethics are incorporated into classroom discussions and critiques.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
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.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.