FILM TV 183A
Producing I: Film and Television Development
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Open to nonmajors. Critical analysis of contemporary entertainment industries and practical approach to understanding and implementing producer's role in development of feature film and television scripts. Through scholarly and trade journal readings, in-class discussions, script analysis, and select guest speakers, exposure to various entities that comprise feature film and television development process. Basic introduction to story and exploration of proper technique for evaluating screenplays and teleplays through writing of coverage. May be taken independently for credit. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Summer 2020 - Producer Alex Creswick is the kind of professor you always hope to have as an instructor. Creswick is highly engaging, enthusiastic and accessible; her stories drawn from in-depth experience and knowledge of the real life of being a producer are priceless. Students in this class learn about not only what a producer does but also all the other roles in the sphere like agent, writer, casting director, manager, actor and entertainment lawyer from lively guests currently in those roles. Students are to ask these professionals questions and network with them. The assignments in UCLA Film and TV 183A class are designed to build the skills needed for first jobs as well as create a portfolio for first interviews. I highly recommend this class and professor. It is practical and worthwhile. This is the best professional development in Film and TV! Thank you!
Summer 2020 - Producer Alex Creswick is the kind of professor you always hope to have as an instructor. Creswick is highly engaging, enthusiastic and accessible; her stories drawn from in-depth experience and knowledge of the real life of being a producer are priceless. Students in this class learn about not only what a producer does but also all the other roles in the sphere like agent, writer, casting director, manager, actor and entertainment lawyer from lively guests currently in those roles. Students are to ask these professionals questions and network with them. The assignments in UCLA Film and TV 183A class are designed to build the skills needed for first jobs as well as create a portfolio for first interviews. I highly recommend this class and professor. It is practical and worthwhile. This is the best professional development in Film and TV! Thank you!
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Winter 2022 - This class was overall pretty interesting and pretty easy. Every week, we would have to read a script and either write script coverage or script notes on it (they teach you how to do this in class). Honestly this would be pretty time consuming as each script is about 100 pages and then you have to write about it. That being said, the assignments were predictable, they were not graded (except to mark that you did it/did not do it), and you received feedback from the TA's on how to improve. The midterm and final were just extended versions of the weekly assignments, so they did not feel much harder at all. The first few weeks were online and we were required to have our videos on in Zoom. But although attendance was listed as a component of the syllabus, they did not take it the last few weeks of class in person. The last two lectures were optional, and although the lecture material is interesting information about course material, it was not necessary for the homework and there were no tests on the material, so it was skippable (minus the initial required attendance). Overall this class was a little boring, but pretty straightforward.
Winter 2022 - This class was overall pretty interesting and pretty easy. Every week, we would have to read a script and either write script coverage or script notes on it (they teach you how to do this in class). Honestly this would be pretty time consuming as each script is about 100 pages and then you have to write about it. That being said, the assignments were predictable, they were not graded (except to mark that you did it/did not do it), and you received feedback from the TA's on how to improve. The midterm and final were just extended versions of the weekly assignments, so they did not feel much harder at all. The first few weeks were online and we were required to have our videos on in Zoom. But although attendance was listed as a component of the syllabus, they did not take it the last few weeks of class in person. The last two lectures were optional, and although the lecture material is interesting information about course material, it was not necessary for the homework and there were no tests on the material, so it was skippable (minus the initial required attendance). Overall this class was a little boring, but pretty straightforward.
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