# Film (FILM) courses College of the Desert · 2026-2027 Catalog · 33 courses Source: https://catalog.collegeofthedesert.edu/courses/film/ "Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Fall 2026. ### FILM 001 — Introduction to Film - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 54 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 16 sections (/c/college-of-the-desert/schedule/fall-2026/film.md) - Repeatable: No - Grading: Letter - Degree Applicable: AA/AS - COD GE: A3 - CalGETC: 3A By the age of 18 the average person has watched over 900 movies, but do we really know how to watch them? This course explores the impact film has on us, and the techniques filmmakers use to make us respond. Drawing from the American Film Institute's "Top 100 Movies of All Time" plus others, the class goes beyond movies as entertainment, into the fascinating world of how movies use color, music, story structure, visual effects and cinematography to make us forget we're even watching a movie. ### FILM 002A — Film Production I: Basic Film Production - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 36, Lab Hours: 54 - **Advisory:** FILM 001. - **C-ID:** FTVE 150 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/college-of-the-desert/schedule/fall-2026/film.md) - Repeatable: No - Grading: Letter - Degree Applicable: AA/AS This course provides an introduction to the theory, terminology, and process of digital film and video production. Topics include basic camera and sound acquisition techniques including the operation, function and creative uses of digital cameras and post-production production software. The emphasis is on documentary or abstract short films and music videos that help the students find their filmmaking voice and style. Students learn basic production management and directing skills as well as basic scripting, camera operation, picture editing and sound editing and mixing. (C-ID FTVE 150) ### FILM 002B — Film Production II: Advanced Film Production - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 36, Lab Hours: 54 - **Prerequisite:** FILM 002A. - **Advisory:** FILM 001 & FILM 003. - **Transfers to:** CSU - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatable: No - Grading: Letter - Degree Applicable: AA/AS This course builds on the skills students acquired in FILM 002A, offering them more advanced and detailed theory and terminology and immersing them deeper into the filmmaking process, this time focusing on narrative filmmaking. Students are introduced to narrative scripting, directing actors, production design, production management and more advanced narrative picture and sound editing techniques. ### FILM 002C — Film Production III: Capstone - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 36, Lab Hours: 54 - **Prerequisite:** FILM 002B & FILM 003 - **Advisory:** FILM 001. - **Transfers to:** CSU - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatable: No - Grading: Letter - Degree Applicable: AA/AS This course builds on the skills students acquired in FILM 002B, offering them more advanced and detailed theory and terminology and immersing them more professionally and independently into the narrative filmmaking process. Student apply skills in production design, narrative screenplay writing and development by directing actors, managing key personnel, producing, budgeting, scheduling, negotiating, and implementing highly developed narrative picture and sound editing techniques. ### FILM 003 — Screenwriting - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 54 - **Prerequisite:** ENG 001A. - **Advisory:** FILM 001. - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/college-of-the-desert/schedule/fall-2026/film.md) - Repeatable: No - Grading: Letter - Degree Applicable: AA/AS This course is a basic introduction to writing for the film and electronic media. Students will learn how to prepare scripts in proper formats for the various media, as well as explore conceptual and stylistic issues related to writing fiction and non-fiction scripts for informational and entertainment purposes. The course gives the students hands-on experience and significant critical feedback in developing, writing and re-writing original scripts for the film and electronic media. ### FILM 004 — Cinematography - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 36, Lab Hours: 54 - **Advisory:** FILM 001 & FILM 002A. - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatable: No - Grading: Letter - Degree Applicable: AA/AS On a film set, the Cinematographer is the person who fulfills the Director's vision by setting the shots and lighting the scene. How this is achieved is part art, part craft and part science. This course will introduce students to the fundamental elements of Cinematography. The exploration of how motion picture and video cameras work will be accompanied by understanding how motion picture cameras, lenses and lighting transcend being tools into being a collaborative artistic expression. ### FILM 005 — On-Camera Acting & Voice Over - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 36, Lab Hours: 54 - **Advisory:** FILM 001 & FILM 002A. - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatable: No - Grading: Letter - Degree Applicable: AA/AS This course is designed to introduce actors and filmmakers to the challenges of on-camera film and voiceover acting with additional focus on 21st century tools. Students will learn how to adjust the acting process for camera and microphone and produce web-ready demo reels for casting and self-promotion. ### FILM 006 — Documentary Filmmaking - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 36, Lab Hours: 54 - **Advisory:** FILM 001 & FILM 002A. - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatable: No - Grading: Letter - Degree Applicable: AA/AS At a time when filmmaking is undergoing rapid change and new forms of documentary filmmaking are emerging across digital platforms, we seek to challenge and train a new generation of film documentarians to find innovative and socially responsible ways to create non-fiction film stories. The focus in this course is on finding and telling the visual story, story development and focusing on the crucial third act climax/resolution, difficult enough in scripted films, far more elusive in documentaries. Students produce short-form documentary films with the emphasis on developing the producer/director's craft through practice and repetition. ### FILM 007 — Film Editing - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 36, Lab Hours: 54 - **Advisory:** FILM 001 & FILM 002A. - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatable: No - Grading: Letter - Degree Applicable: AA/AS A movie is made three times: when it's written; when it's shot; when it's edited. Jean Luc Goddard said, "Film is truth at twenty four frames per second," and no one knows this better than a film editor. He or she must decide frame by frame where the audience needs to be in relation to the story. Stay in a shot or transition to another and if so, what shot and how to get there? Working side-by-side with the director to craft the movie that ultimately hits the screen, large or small, editing is about manipulating the audience, in the best possible way, in the service of storytelling. In this immersive class, students study the terminology and concepts of narrative film editing. Students experience hands-on the film editing process, learning aesthetic principles of narrative continuity editing and the technological workflow for picture and sound editing. ### FILM 008 — Film Production Design - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 54 - **Advisory:** FILM 002A. - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatable: No - Grading: Letter - Degree Applicable: AA/AS Production Design is an intensive hands-on course designed to equip those interested in production design with the latest conceptual and practical skills needed to successfully create a production design for a narrative film. The course encourages student designers to discover their own conceptual approach to design for film while incorporating production and visual effects in the realization of short movies with high production values. ### FILM 009 — Film Producing & Distribution - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 54 - **Advisory:** FILM 002A. - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatable: No - Grading: Letter - Degree Applicable: AA/AS This course is designed for students who want to produce a movie through all stages of a film's journey: buying/development, financing, pre-production, production, post-production, and release/marketing. While key components of the pre-production and production aspects are explored in depth in the Production Management series of courses, the focus of this course is to explore the effect each stage has on the others, and how the producer guides their interdependency. Students learn to recognize and solve problems before they turn in a full-blown crisis and how to make good decisions that help drive a project forward. ### FILM 010 — Film Directing - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 54 - **Advisory:** FILM 002A. - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatable: No - Grading: Letter - Degree Applicable: AA/AS Film directing is serious business. In fact, it is the business. So much so that the French, in defining their New Wave movement decided the "author" of a film was not the screenwriter but the director. This lofty idea affected filmmakers and the films they made the world over. But one thing did not change. The director's job. A director must understand the practical application of a vision communicated to a group of collaborators and brought to fruition through the contributions of that group of creatives. That "author" must be one part visionary, one part tactician, one part psychologist and one part deal closer. He or she must know what a film story requires structurally in order to be told effectively and must have the discipline and skill necessary to deliver it. The director is the only contributor, other than the producer, who shepherds the vision through from beginning to end. The artistry and vision required can't be taught but can be discovered through process and discipline. The collaborative and business aspects required to support process and deliver the product can be learned and applied as well. This course is designed to offer a student both: first, for those who will direct, to teach them how to lead the filmmaking process; and then, for those who will work with directors, to teach them how to support and enrich a director's vision. ### FILM 010A — Film Production Management: Scheduling - **Units:** 1.5 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 27 - **Advisory:** FILM 002A. - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatable: No - Grading: Letter - Degree Applicable: AA/AS Movies are make-believe. The work done to make them is not. Long before cameras roll, and continuing when and long after they do, line producers, production managers, locations managers, first assistant directors and others are working hard to prepare for, manage and carry out a process that will utilize the talents of a small army of creative and technical filmmakers and allocate valuable, irreplaceable resources not the least of which are time and money. There is no just "going out and shooting" this. The seeming madness of the creative process that is filmmaking is in reality managed in a process of its own that evolved with the medium. Scheduling is the basis of the entire film production. This course will teach students one of the most important parts of this process - creating a shooting schedule. In doing so, they will learn how to allocate the resources allowed by the budget in a day-to-day schedule that incorporates talent, crew, equipment, locations settings, costumes, props, effects and other elements that are required to shoot on any given day. And they will learn to manage one of the two most valuable resources required to make a film - time. This course is valuable for anyone interested in producing, line producing, production managing, set managing, location scouting and managing and producing or directing a movie. ### FILM 010B — Film Production Management: Budgeting - **Units:** 1.5 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 27 - **Advisory:** FILM 002A. - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatable: No - Grading: Letter - Degree Applicable: AA/AS Movies are make-believe. The work done to make them is not. Long before cameras roll, and continuing when and long after they do, line producers, production managers, locations managers, first assistant directors and others are working hard to prepare for, manage and carry out a process that will utilize the talents of a small army of creative and technical filmmakers and allocate valuable, irreplaceable resources not the least of which are time and money. There is no just "going out and shooting" this. The seeming madness of the creative process that is filmmaking is in reality managed in a process of its own that evolved with the medium. This course will teach students one of the most important parts of this process - creating a line item budget. In doing so, they will learn all of the various departments, resources and personnel that are required to make a film production possible. And they will learn to allocate one of the two most valuable resources required to make a film - money. This course is valuable for anyone interested in producing, line producing, production managing, set managing, location scouting and managing and producing or directing a movie. ### FILM 010C — Film Production Management: Set Management - **Units:** 1.5 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 27 - **Advisory:** FILM 002A. - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatable: No - Grading: Letter - Degree Applicable: AA/AS Movies are make-believe. The work done to make them is not. Long before cameras roll, and continuing when and long after they do, line producers, production managers, locations managers, first assistant directors and others are working hard to prepare for, manage and carry out a process that will utilize the talents of a small army of creative and technical filmmakers and allocate valuable, irreplaceable resources not the least of which are time and money. There is no just "going out and shooting" this. The seeming madness of the creative process that is filmmaking is in reality managed in a process of its own that evolved with the medium. This course will teach students how to manage a set, whether it's in a studio or on location. In doing so, they will learn the personnel required to run a set, the processes they support, the protocols that help govern those processes and the best practices that will result in a well-run, productive movie set. This course is valuable for anyone interested in producing, line producing, production managing, set managing, location scouting and managing and directing a movie. ### FILM 010D — Film Production Management: Location Management - **Units:** 1.5 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 27 - **Advisory:** FILM 002A. - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatable: No - Grading: Letter - Degree Applicable: AA/AS Movies are make-believe. The work done to make them is not. Long before cameras roll, and continuing when and long after they do, line producers, production managers, locations managers, first assistant directors and others are working hard to prepare for, manage and carry out a process that will utilize the talents of a small army of creative and technical filmmakers and allocate valuable, irreplaceable resources not the least of which are time and money. There is no just "going out and shooting" this. The seeming madness of the creative process that is filmmaking is in reality managed in a process of its own that evolved with the medium. "Where's the bathroom?!" These are the first words out of the grip's mouth - or the steely eyed Production Manager of a film upon arriving at a location set. This course will teach students how to manage a location setting. In doing so, they will learn how to scout a location, the legal and financial requirements of securing one, prepping it for production, managing it, locking it down, "owning it" and eventually leaving it in the same or better condition than when production began. This course is valuable for anyone interested in producing, line producing, production managing, set managing, location scouting and managing and producing or directing a movie. ### FILM 011A — Film Production Management: Scheduling & Budgeting - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 54 - **Advisory:** FILM-002A. - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatable: No - Grading: Letter - Degree Applicable: AA/AS Movies are make-believe. The work done to make them is not. Long before cameras roll, and continuing when and long after they do, line producers, production managers, locations managers, first assistant directors and others are working hard to prepare for, manage and carry out a process that will utilize the talents of a small army of creative and technical filmmakers and allocate valuable, irreplaceable resources not the least of which are time and money. There is no just "going out and shooting" this. The seeming madness of the creative process that is filmmaking is in reality managed in a process of its own that evolved with the medium. Scheduling is the basis of the entire film production. This course will teach students one of the most important parts of this process - creating a shooting schedule. In doing so, they will learn how to allocate the resources allowed by the budget in a day-to-day schedule that incorporates talent, crew, equipment, locations settings, costumes, props, effects and other elements that are required to shoot on any given day. And they will learn to manage one of the two most valuable resources required to make a film - time. This course will also teach students one of the most important parts of this process - creating a line item budget. In doing so, they will learn all of the various departments, resources and personnel that are required to make a film production possible. And they will learn to allocate one of the two most valuable resources required to make a film - money. This course is valuable for anyone interested in producing, line producing, production managing, set managing, location scouting and managing and producing or directing a movie. ### FILM 011B — Production Management: Location & Set Management - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 54 - **Advisory:** FILM 002A. - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/college-of-the-desert/schedule/fall-2026/film.md) - Repeatable: No - Grading: Letter - Degree Applicable: AA/AS Movies are make-believe. The work done to make them is not. Long before cameras roll, and continuing when and long after they do, line producers, production managers, locations managers, first assistant directors and others are working hard to prepare for, manage and carry out a process that will utilize the talents of a small army of creative and technical filmmakers and allocate valuable, irreplaceable resources not the least of which are time and money. There is no just "going out and shooting" this. The seeming madness of the creative process that is filmmaking is in reality managed in a process of its own that evolved with the medium. "Where's the bathroom?!" These are the first words out of the grip's mouth - or the steely eyed Production Manager of a film upon arriving at a location set. This course will teach students how to manage a location setting. In doing so, they will learn how to scout a location, the legal and financial requirements of securing one, prepping it for production, managing it, locking it down, "owning it" and eventually leaving it in the same or better condition than when production began. This course will also teach students how to manage a set, whether it's in a studio or on location. In doing so, they will learn the personnel required to run a set, the processes they support, the protocols that help govern those processes and the best practices that will result in a well-run, productive movie set. This course is valuable for anyone interested in producing, line producing, production managing, set managing, location scouting and managing and producing or directing a movie. ### FILM 012A — Creative Content - Basic - **Units:** 1 - **Hours:** Lab Hours: 54 - **Prerequisite:** FILM 002A. - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatable: No - Grading: Letter - Degree Applicable: AA/AS This beginning course facilitates participation and employment of skills in creative content production progressing from a basic to an intermediate level of work. Starting with the fundamentals of creative content production, students get hands-on experience in execution of budgeting, scheduling, producing, editing and delivering videos for clients. Students work as members of a small production company and the tools and processes of filmmaking are applied to the client's creative content needs. ### FILM 012B — Creative Content - Intermediate - **Units:** 1 - **Hours:** Lab Hours: 54 - **Prerequisite:** FILM 012A. - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatable: No - Grading: Letter - Degree Applicable: AA/AS This intermediate course further facilitates participation and employment of skills in creative content production progressing from an intermediate to an advanced level of work. Building on the fundamentals of creative content production, students get hands-on experience in execution of budgeting, scheduling, producing, editing and delivering videos for clients but with an emphasis on managing production. Students begin to lead members of a small production company as they apply more complex tools and processes of filmmaking to the client's creative content needs. ### FILM 012C — Creative Content - Advanced - **Units:** 1 - **Hours:** Lab Hours: 54 - **Prerequisite:** FILM 012B. - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatable: No - Grading: Letter - Degree Applicable: AA/AS This advanced course further facilitates participation and employment of skills in creative content production progressing from an advanced to a professional level of work. Continuing to build on the fundamentals of creative content production, students get hands-on experience in execution of budgeting, scheduling, producing, editing and delivering videos for clients but with an emphasis on managing production. Students lead all members of a small production company as they apply still more complex tools and processes of filmmaking to the client's creative content needs. ### FILM 021 — Contemporary World Film - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 54 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatable: No - Grading: Letter - Degree Applicable: AA/AS - COD GE: A3 - CalGETC: 3A This course surveys modern international cinema. Through the examination of narrative, documentary and experimental films from around the world, the medium's technical, aesthetic and theoretical development will be investigated. Particular attention will be given to the historical, cultural and economic influences that contribute to this international art form. ### FILM 022 — American Film to the 1960s - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 54 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/college-of-the-desert/schedule/fall-2026/film.md) - Repeatable: No - Grading: Letter - Degree Applicable: AA/AS - COD GE: A3 - CalGETC: 3A Study of the development, history and aesthetics of the Hollywood studio system, as well as its impact on our culture. Study of classic films as forms of popular entertainment and cinematic art, including various Hollywood genres and their independent counterparts. Lectures, discussions and readings are supplemented by the screening and critical analysis of representative films. ### FILM 023 — Contemporary American Film - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 54 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatable: No - Grading: Letter - Degree Applicable: AA/AS - COD GE: A3 - CalGETC: 3A Study of the changes of the Hollywood studio system, alternative productions, and independent film since the 1960s. Covers the decline of the studio system, the rise of American New Wave cinema, the history of the blockbuster, the parallel histories of independent and underground film, changing audiences, the effects of new technology, the presence of media conglomerates, women in U.S. cinema, and the popularity of documentary films. ### FILM 095A — Film Work Experience - **Units:** 1-5 - **Hours:** Lab Hours: 270 - **Transfers to:** CSU - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatable: Yes - Grading: Letter - Degree Applicable: AA/AS This work experience course of supervised employment provides students the opportunity to connect academics to applied experiential learning in the workplace. It assists students in developing transferable employability skills, career awareness, learning industry culture, competencies and norms, and developing professional networks that support career mobility. To enroll, students must have a job or internship placement in a part-time or full-time capacity. Credit may be accrued at the rate of one to five (1-5) units per semester based on the student's ability to meet the hours required per unit enrolled. Students must work 54 hours per unit earned. This Work Experience course is available to students whose job or internship placement is directly related to Film. ### FILM 301A — Introduction to Film - **Units:** 0 - **Hours:** Noncredit Hours: 27 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatable: Yes - Grading: Pass/No Pass - Degree Applicable: NONC Roger Ebert wrote, "We live in a box of space and time. "Movies are windows in its walls." Movies play a tremendously important role in our culture. But how much do we know about the history and making of our favorite films and do we really know how to watch them? This class provides an introduction to the basic tools of film analysis. We will examine how elements like narrative & genre, mise-en-scene, camera work, editing and sound work together to create meaning in films. We will examine the business of film, other narrative forms of cinema such as documentary, animated and experimental films and the history of film. And we will examine writing about films, such as Roger Ebert, and others have done since film began. Students will: Analyze elements including narrative & genre, mise-en-scene, camera work, editing and sound in a film and evaluate how well they are used to communicate the film's major themes; Analyze film writing and write about film's themselves. ### FILM 301B — Introduction to Film 2 - **Units:** 0 - **Hours:** Noncredit Hours: 27 - **Prerequisite:** FILM-301A. - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatable: Yes - Grading: Pass/No Pass - Degree Applicable: NONC Roger Ebert wrote, "We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls." Movies play a tremendously important role in our culture. But how much do we know about the history and making of our favorite films and do we really know how to watch them? This class provides an introduction to the basic tools of film analysis. We will examine how elements like narrative & genre, mise-en-scene, camera work, editing and sound work together to create meaning in films. We will examine the business of film, other narrative forms of cinema such as documentary, animated and experimental films and the history of film. And we will examine writing about films, such as Roger Ebert and others have done since film began. Students will: Analyze how a film reflects the social and moral attitudes at the time of the film's original release; Analyze the business of film, it's financing, marketing and distribution and assess how these forces shape the films we watch; Analyze other narrative forms like documentary, animation and experimental film; Analyze the history of Hollywood, European, non-western and independent film. ### FILM 302D — Film Production IA: Basic Film Production - **Units:** 0 - **Hours:** Noncredit Hours: 45 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatable: Yes - Grading: Pass/No Pass - Degree Applicable: NONC This course provides an introduction to the theory, terminology, and process of digital film and video production. Topics include basic camera and sound acquisition techniques including the operation, function and creative uses of digital cameras and post-production production software. The emphasis is on abstract short films and music videos that help students find their filmmaking voice and style. Students learn basic production management and directing skills as well as basic scripting, camera operation, picture editing and sound editing and mixing. ### FILM 302E — Film Production IB: Basic Film Production - **Units:** 0 - **Hours:** Noncredit Hours: 45 - **Prerequisite:** FILM-302D. - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatable: Yes - Grading: Pass/No Pass - Degree Applicable: NONC This course provides an introduction to the theory, terminology, and process of digital film and video production. Topics include basic camera and sound acquisition techniques including the operation, function and creative uses of digital cameras and post-production production software. The emphasis is on documentary films that help the students find their filmmaking voice and style. Students learn more complex production management and directing skills as well as more complex scripting, camera operation, picture editing and sound editing and mixing. ### FILM 303A — Screenwriting 1 - **Units:** 0 - **Hours:** Noncredit Hours: 27 - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatable: Yes - Grading: Pass/No Pass - Degree Applicable: NONC This course is a basic introduction to writing for film and electronic media. Students will explore conceptual and stylistic issues related to writing fiction scripts for entertainment purposes. The course gives students hands-on experience and significant critical feedback in developing, writing and re-writing original scripts for film and electronic media. ### FILM 303B — Screenwriting 2 - **Units:** 0 - **Hours:** Noncredit Hours: 27 - **Prerequisite:** FILM-303A. - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatable: Yes - Grading: Pass/No Pass - Degree Applicable: NONC This course is a continuation of the introduction to writing for the film and electronic media begun in FILM 303A. Students will learn how to prepare scripts in proper formats for the various media, as well as explore conceptual and stylistic issues related to writing fiction scripts for entertainment purposes. The course gives students hands-on experience and significant critical feedback in developing, writing and re-writing original scripts for film and electronic media. ### FILM 310A — Film Production Management: Scheduling - **Units:** 0 - **Hours:** Noncredit Hours: 27 - **Prerequisite:** FILM-302E. - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatable: Yes - Grading: Pass/No Pass - Degree Applicable: NONC Movies are make-believe. The work done to make them is not. Long before cameras roll, and continuing when and long after they do, line producers, production managers, locations managers, first assistant directors and others are working hard to prepare for, manage and carry out a process that will utilize the talents of a small army of creative and technical filmmakers and allocate valuable, irreplaceable resources not the least of which are time and money. There is no just "going out and shooting" this. The seeming madness of the creative process that is filmmaking is in reality managed in a process of its own that evolved with the medium. Scheduling is the basis of the entire film production. This course will teach students one of the most important parts of this process - creating a shooting schedule. In doing so, they will learn how to allocate the resources allowed by the budget in a day-to-day schedule that incorporates talent, crew, equipment, locations settings, costumes, props, effects and other elements that are required to shoot on any given day. And they will learn to manage one of the two most valuable resources required to make a film - time. This course is valuable for anyone interested in producing, line producing, production managing, set managing, location scouting and managing and producing or directing a movie. ### FILM 310B — Film Production Management: Budgeting - **Units:** 0 - **Hours:** Noncredit Hours: 27 - **Prerequisite:** FILM-310A. - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Repeatable: Yes - Grading: Pass/No Pass - Degree Applicable: NONC Movies are make-believe. The work done to make them is not. Long before cameras roll, and continuing when and long after they do, line producers, production managers, locations managers, first assistant directors and others are working hard to prepare for, manage and carry out a process that will utilize the talents of a small army of creative and technical filmmakers and allocate valuable, irreplaceable resources not the least of which are time and money. There is no just "going out and shooting" this. The seeming madness of the creative process that is filmmaking is in reality managed in a process of its own that evolved with the medium. This course will teach students one of the most important parts of this process - creating a line item budget. In doing so, they will learn all of the various departments, resources and personnel that are required to make a film production possible. And they will learn to allocate one of the two most valuable resources required to make a film - money. This course is valuable for anyone interested in producing, line producing, production managing, set managing, location scouting and managing and producing or directing a movie.