FILM TV X 479.302 - Becoming Camera-Savvy: A Workshop for Today's Filmmakers
Course Description
The camera is the essential tool of the filmmaker. This course prepares cinematographers and digital filmmakers to utilize the camera by employing an aesthetic and technical approach to projects. The essential technical aspects of how digital cinema cameras function are explored through lectures and practical application. Students participate in the testing and analysis of current digital cinema cameras and become more familiar with their individual features as well as the differences between them.
Course Outline
Gain experience and expertise with each of the principal camera formats in use for productions today.Prerequisites
Successful completion of FILM TV X 478.27A Introduction to Cinematography is strongly recommended.Applies Towards the Following Certificates
- Acting : Elective Courses
- Cinematography : Required Cinematography Courses, Elective Courses
- Directing : Elective Courses
- Entertainment Studies : Cinematography, Elective Courses
- Film and TV Development : Elective Courses
- Post-Production : Elective Courses
- Study Abroad at UCLA Program : Required