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Dibs Fall 2026

FILM TV 4

Introduction to Art and Technique of Filmmaking

Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Students acquire understanding of practical and aesthetic challenges undertaken by artists and professionals in making of motion pictures and television. Examination of film as both art and industry: storytelling, sound and visual design, casting and performance, editing, finance, advertising, and distribution. Exploration of American and world cinema from filmmaker's perspective. Honing of analytical skills and development of critical vocabulary for study of filmmaking as technical, artistic, and cultural phenomenon. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.80
n = 3,178 · 12 terms · ± 0.010
A range
88%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
4%
91% of those passed
D / F / W
1.6%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Sections offered, with live enrollment and predicted GPA
Section Status Enrolled Seat risk Meets Instructor Predicted GPA
Lec 1 Open
113 of 120
94% full
 fills Time TBA The Staff
3.80n=3,178 · course average

Enrollment history

Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.

  • 23321F
  • 25022F
  • 23523W
  • 11323S
  • 26723F
  • 24124W
  • 22824S
  • 21224F
  • 21325S
Enrolment by term: 21F 233, 22F 250, 23W 235, 23S 113, 23F 267, 24W 241, 24S 228, 24F 212, 25S 213
Peak 267 Most recent 213 in 25S 9 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 1,170 · 35.3%
  • A 1,332 · 40.2%
  • A- 289 · 8.7%
  • B+ 120 · 3.6%
  • B 100 · 3.0%
  • B- 53 · 1.6%
  • C+ 20 · 0.6%
  • C 28 · 0.8%
  • C- 14 · 0.4%
  • D+ 9 · 0.3%
  • D 9 · 0.3%
  • D- 4 · 0.1%
  • F 30 · 0.9%
  • P 118 · 3.6%
  • NP 12 · 0.4%
  • S 2 · 0.1%
  • I 2 · 0.1%

Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.

By instructor

Instructor Predicted Raw n Terms A range
TRICE, JASMINE NADUA 3.75 3.75 1,802 6 85%
HUANG, GEORGE J 3.83 3.83 474 2 88%
WAGMISTER, CARLOS 3.98 3.99 436 2 100%
MAQUILING, DAVID MARK 3.84 3.84 222 1 90%
RAVETTO, KRISTINE SUZANNE 3.78 3.78 212 1 88%
GREENE, SHELLEEN MAISHA 3.25 3.03 32 2 53%

“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department — so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.

By term