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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Winter 2025 - Very easy class. would recommend for a GPA booster. We had an assignment, discussion post, and quiz every week (just 8 questions). The assignments were a breeze. The final was the first 10 pages of your screenplay. There is a zoom meeting with your TA to go over your first 5 pages with a group which is pretty easy to get through. My TA Emma was really sweet and would recommend her. Overall this class was really easy and enjoyable to get through.
Winter 2025 - Very easy class. would recommend for a GPA booster. We had an assignment, discussion post, and quiz every week (just 8 questions). The assignments were a breeze. The final was the first 10 pages of your screenplay. There is a zoom meeting with your TA to go over your first 5 pages with a group which is pretty easy to get through. My TA Emma was really sweet and would recommend her. Overall this class was really easy and enjoyable to get through.
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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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