FILM TV 413ATools and Techniques: Sound I
Film and Television · 4 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Theory and technique behind production sound and field recording including operation of Sound Devices MixPre-6 audio recorder, and use of wired and wireless microphones and boom poles. Students also learn vocabulary and theory about how sound is experienced, and how those experiences can be translated into creative context. Students listen to and record audio without visual component, then acquire tools and techniques to prepare for documentary work.
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.
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