THEATER 127Performance for Virtual Environments
Theater · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Exploration of performance in virtual environments through hands-on experimentation and scene work using two or more prominent technologies, supported by history of each technology and its use in arts, key technological concepts, and basic production processes. Consideration of uses in large scale professional production as well as low-budget and do-it-yourself approaches. Platforms studied are selected for their importance to field, timeliness, and relationship to department season. Students engage with platforms as actors, working with instructor- and self- and selected scenes. Students explore character development, different relationships to audience and camera, and engagement/synchronization with virtual setting. Students identify techniques collaboratively in concert with study of experiences of other actors, directors, and other creators with platforms.
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
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Requires
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
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