FILM 450 — CINEMATOGRAPHY (CUR-086)

Summary 🟡 ✓

• Resource type: course
• Owner Unit: Film and Television Production
• College/School: Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media
• Curriculum section: Art, Media, and Design
• Catalog: FILM 450
• Last Verified: 2026-05-28

Course access

• Level: yellow (Prerequisites Required)
• Rationale: Catalog lists formal prerequisites, co-requisites, or program-status requirements.
• Prerequisites:
• FILM 401 or FILM 410 is a prerequisite
• FILM 410 is a prerequisite

Verification

• Status: verified_catalog_course (✓)
• Rationale: Appears in the current official DePaul course catalog search.
• Source URL: catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/film
• Last verified: 2026-05-28

Catalog description

In this course, students visually translate narrative scripts into meaningful and engaging imagery for cinema. Each week, students will visualize, block and shoot short sequences. Skills-building instruction will include the use of waveform monitors, light meters, cameras, optics, grip equipment, dollies, electricity, and lighting instruments. This class is a hands-on and experiential class with an emphasis on the cinematographer's practical and aesthetic visual choices. FILM 401 or FILM 410 is a prerequisite for this class.

Hardware relevance

Hands-on labs, fabrication, instrumentation, or physical production technology described in the official catalog course description.

Notes

Catalog course key: FILM 450. Course offerings and schedules are not verified in this pass.