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FILM 388 — DIRECTING ACTORS FOR CAMERA (CUR-271)

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 388
  • Last Verified: 2026-07-01

Course access

  • Level: green (Open Enrollment)
  • Rationale: No formal prerequisites listed in catalog description; open to any student meeting university registration rules.
  • Prerequisites: None listed in catalog description

Verification

Catalog description

Directing and cinematography students from SCA and acting students from TTS explore unique challenges and opportunities of collaboration between film directors, cinematographers, and theater actors. Emphasis will be placed on the actor/director and director/DP relationships, the relationship between the camera and performer, visual storytelling, blocking for the camera, and onset logistical considerations. Through a series of in-class exercises students will craft scenes for 2 - 3 actors.

Hardware relevance

Discovery pass: harvest include: signals: camera(?:s)?\b, cinematograph

Notes

Catalog course key: FILM 388.

Provenance (promotion record)

  • Promotion date: 2026-07-01
  • Promotion batch: catalog-course-promotion-2026-06-30
  • Provenance kernel:
  • depaul/XTR-000210 ← depaul/SRC-000657 (catalog_description)
  • Extraction status: linked
  • Evidence packets:
  • 2026-06-30-resource-map-catalog-related-courses
  • Schedule (capture): Not offered in queried registrar terms
  • Evidence captures:
  • Catalog: sources/inbox/2026-06-30-resource-map-catalog-related-courses/source_snapshot/captured/catalog-search-FILM-388.html
  • Schedule: sources/inbox/2026-06-30-resource-map-catalog-related-courses/source_snapshot/captured/schedule-FILM-388.json
  • Notes: Promoted from catalog discovery evidence packets; XTR/SRC linkage to be completed in forthcoming provenance refactor.