Course Description
Film and Television 4: Introduction to Art and Technique of Filmmaking, FILM TV 4
(Formerly numbered 122B.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Students acquire understanding of practical and aesthetic challenges undertaken by artists and professionals in making of motion pictures and television. Examination of film as both art and industry: storytelling, sound and visual design, casting and performance, editing, finance, advertising, and distribution. Exploration of American and world cinema from filmmaker's perspective. Honing of analytical skills and development of critical vocabulary for study of filmmaking as technical, artistic, and cultural phenomenon. P/NP or letter grading.
Key Information
Credit: 5 quarter units /
3.33 semester units credit
UC Los Angeles, Film, Television, and Digital Media
Course Credit:
Upon successful completion, all online courses offered through cross-enrollment provide UC unit credit. Some courses are approved for GE, major preparation and/or, major credit or can be used as a substitute for a course at your campus.If "unit credit" is listed by your campus, consult your department, academic adviser or Student Affairs division to inquire about the petition process for more than unit credit for the course.
UC Berkeley:
Unit Credit
UC Davis:
General Education: AH, VL.
UC Irvine:
Unit Credit
UC Los Angeles:
General Education: Foundations of Arts and Humanities -Literary and Cultural Analysis
Foundations of Arts and Humanities -Visual and Performance Arts Analysis and Practice
This class satisfies the following College/School diversity requirement: College of Letters and Science, School of Music, Public Affairs
Major Preparation: pre-major requirement for Film TV Majors
UC Merced:
Unit Credit (see your Academic Advisor)
UC Riverside:
General Education: Elective units
UC San Diego:
General Education: Revelle Fine Arts; ERC 1 fine arts course; TMC 1 course toward lower division disciplinary breadth if noncontiguous to major; Warren - May be counted depending on major/PofC/AS; Sixth 1 course NAHR, Seventh - 1 course towards Alternatives - Arts; Muir: 1 course in a Fine Arts theme in "Visual Arts"
UC San Francisco:
Unit Credit
UC Santa Barbara:
General Education: Area F-Arts
UC Santa Cruz:
General Education: IM
More About The Course
Course Creator
J.N. Trice
Jasmine Nadua Trice is an associate professor of Cinema and Media Studies. Her research focuses on film cultures within transnational contexts. Her particular areas of specialization include contemporary Asian cinemas, exhibition and moviegoing, cinema and urbanism, and media spaces. Broadly, her work uses cinema as a lens to investigate the changes wrought by global modernities, emphasizing how communities positioned at the margins of those transformations adapt, dismiss or challenge them.
Commitments to teaching, mentorship and public engagement drive much of Trice’s work. At her former post at the National University of Singapore, she was a recipient of the university’s Annual Teaching Excellence Award for her work in an undergraduate writing and critical thinking program.
Trice earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University - Bloomington. Her dissertation won received Honorable Mention from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
For more information, please visit the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
Jasmine Nadua Trice is an associate professor of Cinema and Media Studies. Her research focuses on film cultures within transnational contexts. Her particular areas of specialization include contemporary Asian cinemas, exhibition and moviegoing, cinema and urbanism, and media spaces. Broadly, her work uses cinema as a lens to investigate the changes wrought by global modernities, emphasizing ...Jasmine Nadua Trice is an associate professor of Cinema and Media Studies. Her research focuses on film cultures within transnational contexts. Her particular areas of specialization include contemporary Asian cinemas, exhibition and moviegoing, cinema and urbanism, and media spaces. Broadly, her work uses cinema as a lens to investigate the changes wrought by global modernities, emphasizing how communities positioned at the margins of those transformations adapt, dismiss or challenge them.
Commitments to teaching, mentorship and public engagement drive much of Trice’s work. At her former post at the National University of Singapore, she was a recipient of the university’s Annual Teaching Excellence Award for her work in an undergraduate writing and critical thinking program.
Trice earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University - Bloomington. Her dissertation won received Honorable Mention from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
For more information, please visit the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
