FILM TV 33
Introductory Screenwriting
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Not open for credit to students with credit for course C132/C430. Structural analysis of feature films and development of professional screenwriters' vocabulary for constructing, deconstructing, and reconstructing their own work. Screenings of films and selected film sequences in class and by assignment. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Spring 2024 - Verducci being listed as the instructor for this course is really a stretch. This is an asynchronous course, lectures were recorded in the past by different person, and work is graded by a a TA, so Verducci is not the instructor, but rather a "facilitator" or something similar to that. Though the recorded videos are highly engaging and interesting, it really is disappointing not to have any real-time instruction. This is the only on-line asynchronous class I took in my entire career at UCLA, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone - except those that needed a fun and easy A.
Spring 2024 - Verducci being listed as the instructor for this course is really a stretch. This is an asynchronous course, lectures were recorded in the past by different person, and work is graded by a a TA, so Verducci is not the instructor, but rather a "facilitator" or something similar to that. Though the recorded videos are highly engaging and interesting, it really is disappointing not to have any real-time instruction. This is the only on-line asynchronous class I took in my entire career at UCLA, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone - except those that needed a fun and easy A.
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Fall 2019 - This has been by far my favorite class taken at UCLA. Voorhees is absolutely insane in all of the best ways, class was consistently entertaining. You spend about half of EVERY lecture watching a movie which is awesome. There is no homework for lecture, and the assignments for section all lead up to helping you write 10 pages of a screenplay which is also your final. Just for reference, the first draft of that was due Week 5 and the next 5 weeks were just minor editing (so basically no final or tests or anything). My TA (Cat) was super cool and interested in helping us. You can tell she really just wanted to see effort and that we were trying, and you're golden. I mean come on the class is 50% attendance. That is the one caveat -- you have to sign into every lecture and section (but that is LITERALLY the only possible negative for this class). Voorhees opened her first lecture by saying "If people told you to take this class because it's 'easy' or it's a 'guaranteed A' well... they were right."
Fall 2019 - This has been by far my favorite class taken at UCLA. Voorhees is absolutely insane in all of the best ways, class was consistently entertaining. You spend about half of EVERY lecture watching a movie which is awesome. There is no homework for lecture, and the assignments for section all lead up to helping you write 10 pages of a screenplay which is also your final. Just for reference, the first draft of that was due Week 5 and the next 5 weeks were just minor editing (so basically no final or tests or anything). My TA (Cat) was super cool and interested in helping us. You can tell she really just wanted to see effort and that we were trying, and you're golden. I mean come on the class is 50% attendance. That is the one caveat -- you have to sign into every lecture and section (but that is LITERALLY the only possible negative for this class). Voorhees opened her first lecture by saying "If people told you to take this class because it's 'easy' or it's a 'guaranteed A' well... they were right."
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