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DIR 285 — DIRECTING III: BLOCKING FOR CAMERA (FORMERLY FILM 285) (CUR-255)

Summary 🟡 ✓

  • Resource type: course
  • Owner Unit: Film and Television Directing
  • College/School: Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media
  • Curriculum section: Art, Media, and Design
  • Catalog: DIR 285
  • Last Verified: 2026-07-01

Course access

  • Level: yellow (Prerequisites Required)
  • Rationale: Catalog lists formal prerequisites, co-requisites, or program-status requirements.
  • Prerequisites:
  • DIR 284 or FILM 284 is a prerequisite
  • FILM 284 is a prerequisite

Verification

Catalog description

In this course students implement knowledge learned in casting and rehearsing to direct actors in micro-scenes increasing in complexity. Students will explore how staging changes from two to three-person scenes and be introduced to ensemble work. The class culminates in exploring the relationship between camera and performance. DIR 284 or FILM 284 is a prerequisite for this class.

Hardware relevance

Discovery pass: harvest include: signals: casting|molding|milling, camera(?:s)?\b

Notes

Catalog course key: DIR 285.

Provenance (promotion record)

  • Promotion date: 2026-07-01
  • Promotion batch: catalog-course-promotion-2026-06-30
  • Provenance kernel:
  • depaul/XTR-000194 ← depaul/SRC-000645 (catalog_description)
  • Extraction status: linked
  • Evidence packets:
  • 2026-06-30-resource-map-catalog-related-courses
  • Schedule (capture): 2026-2027 Autumn — Rachel Bass
  • Evidence captures:
  • Catalog: sources/inbox/2026-06-30-resource-map-catalog-related-courses/source_snapshot/captured/catalog-search-DIR-285.html
  • Schedule: sources/inbox/2026-06-30-resource-map-catalog-related-courses/source_snapshot/captured/schedule-DIR-285.json
  • Notes: Promoted from catalog discovery evidence packets; XTR/SRC linkage to be completed in forthcoming provenance refactor.