Professor Franklin's is fine, the topics themselves about the industry are just restating his version of what I have learned in multiple classes already, which isn't his fault, but still just as boring after hearing it for the second or third time. In general, any new topics, such as what is done for the homework assignments (reading scripts and doing coverage or script notes) was really fun and interesting. I thoroughly enjoyed reading multiple scripts as it gave me exposure to them and analyzing them.

Professor Franklin's first impression was something I will not forget, I have never had a professor cuss as much as him within one lecture. I think in general, it is unprofessional and seems forced at times, like he is trying to relate to the "kids". Whatever the reason, after the fifth f bomb in the first class, I was already tired of it. His lectures are all printed out and as a student, you are just spoken at for an hour and a half. There is no slideshow, or even outline to follow, and most of the time Franklin is looking down at his printed script like it is a TV show. As a person, he seems great and genuinely wants to help those who want to get into the industry. He does many Q&A things after class and tries to convey his willingness to help if you reach out to him. As a lecturer, he needs to make the class more engaging in at least one way.

In general, this is an easy A, but is boring as hell.

Class is super easy, barely an inconvenience.

This was a great class with a light workload! Your grade is comprised of a weekly (one page single-spaced) opinion paper about the topic for that week, a midterm paper as well as a final paper (which are both three pages single-spaced opinion papers) and your participation in class. Professor Franklin is really good about facilitating thought-provoking discussion about the topic for that week, which makes it super easy to participate. The topics you cover include Hollywood's issues with racial diversity, gender diversity, LGBTQ representation, depictions of mental illness, representation of disabilities, etc. Professor Franklin really cared about student learning and it was great having him!!

This class was overall pretty interesting and pretty easy. Every week, we would have to read a script and either write script coverage or script notes on it (they teach you how to do this in class). Honestly this would be pretty time consuming as each script is about 100 pages and then you have to write about it. That being said, the assignments were predictable, they were not graded (except to mark that you did it/did not do it), and you received feedback from the TA's on how to improve. The midterm and final were just extended versions of the weekly assignments, so they did not feel much harder at all.
The first few weeks were online and we were required to have our videos on in Zoom. But although attendance was listed as a component of the syllabus, they did not take it the last few weeks of class in person. The last two lectures were optional, and although the lecture material is interesting information about course material, it was not necessary for the homework and there were no tests on the material, so it was skippable (minus the initial required attendance). Overall this class was a little boring, but pretty straightforward.

This class is a good intro to the industry and the assignments were relatively straightforward. The T.A.'s give good feedback and the professor brings in industry professionals to talk to us every class time. Lecture is really long since we only met once a week but it was enlightening nonetheless. He's a really chill lecturer and he presents facts with humor sprinkled in. Be careful with the group assignments though, people here can be lazy as hell. I had to carry my group several times.

Chill dude, keeps it nice and simple.