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.
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.
2-Day weekend workshop to be arranged at a studio in L.A.
Enrollment limited; early enrollment advised. Internet access required.
International Students: This section is considered in person for immigration purposes.
Refund Deadline
No refunds after TBD
Schedule
Type
Date
Time
Location
Lecture
Tue Apr 1, 2025
7:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
UCLA Extension Gayley Center in WestwoodUCLA Extension Gayley Center 121E
Lecture
Tue Apr 8, 2025
7:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
UCLA Extension Gayley Center in WestwoodUCLA Extension Gayley Center 121E
Lecture
Tue Apr 15, 2025
7:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
UCLA Extension Gayley Center in WestwoodUCLA Extension Gayley Center 121E
Lecture
Tue Apr 22, 2025
7:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
UCLA Extension Gayley Center in WestwoodUCLA Extension Gayley Center 121E
Lecture
Tue Apr 29, 2025
7:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
UCLA Extension Gayley Center in WestwoodUCLA Extension Gayley Center 121E
Lecture
Tue May 6, 2025
7:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
UCLA Extension Gayley Center in WestwoodUCLA Extension Gayley Center 121E
Lecture
Tue May 13, 2025
7:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
UCLA Extension Gayley Center in WestwoodUCLA Extension Gayley Center 121E
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