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Visualization and Exposure

FILM TV X 478.27B

Advance your skills as a cinematographer with this hands-on course. Learn pre and on-set visualization with a particular emphasis on digital exposure, composition and framing. Weekly exercises and workshops will help to enhance your skills.

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Fall
Spring
Hybrid
Starting at $1,480.00
As few as 7 weeks
4.0

What you can learn.

  • Understand pre-visualizing lighting design and execution for a project
  • Learn pre-production tools with emphasis on lighting, lenses, color, and more
  • Delve more deeply into the nuances of cameras and camera movement
  • Master lighting and exposure skills in weekly exercises

About this course:

This course is designed to deepen the cinematographer's understanding of the principles and methods of visualization on-set and in pre-production with particular emphasis on digital exposure and pre-visualizing lighting design and execution. Instruction covers pre-production tools and techniques for cinematographers with emphasis on lighting, lenses, cameras, camera movement and color. Each week, you participate in exercises and workshops designed to help you master the skills used for visualizing the lighting, camera and exposure of the scene. You also practice the techniques of composition and framing (interior and exterior). You learn how to design shots, achieve compositional balance, tracking, gear-heads, fluid heads, eye-lines and two-shots.
Prerequisites
Successful completion of or concurrent enrollment in FILM TV X 478.27A Introduction to Cinematography.

Fall 2025 Schedule

Date & Time
Details
Format
 
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Wednesday 6:00PM - 9:00PM PT
Future Offering (Opens July 28, 2025 12:00:00 AM)
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Instructor: Jessica Pantoja
404980
Fee:
$1,480.00
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Location: UCLA Extension Gayley Center in Westwood
Notes

This course is made of In-Person and Remote meetings.
A 2-Day weekend workshop to be arranged at a studio in L.A. 
Enrollment limited; early enrollment advised. Internet access required.
 

Refund Deadline
No refunds after October 05, 2025
Schedule
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Date
Time
Location
Lecture
Wed Sep 24, 2025
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
UCLA Extension Gayley Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Gayley Center
Lecture
Wed Oct 1, 2025
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
UCLA Extension Gayley Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Gayley Center
Lecture
Wed Oct 8, 2025
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
UCLA Extension Gayley Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Gayley Center
Lecture
Wed Oct 15, 2025
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
UCLA Extension Gayley Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Gayley Center
Lecture
Wed Oct 22, 2025
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
UCLA Extension Gayley Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Gayley Center
Lecture
Wed Oct 29, 2025
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
UCLA Extension Gayley Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Gayley Center
Lecture
Wed Nov 5, 2025
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
UCLA Extension Gayley Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Gayley Center

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