Introduction to Art and Technique of Filmmaking

Grades

3.79

Average grade awarded in FILM TV 4. Not a rating: this is what the grades were. i The mean of every letter grade the registrar has published for this course, pooled across every instructor who has taught it. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were. It is not shrunk toward anything, because a course average cannot be pulled toward itself. Standard error 0.010.

The registrar's own records: 3,564 grades over 14 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025, summer excluded. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 14 terms ran 3.64 to 4.00.

By instructor

“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.

dibs measures outcomes: grades, seats, how fast a class fills. For what a class is like to sit in, BruinWalk has the reviews.

Reviews for FILM TV 4 ↗

In Falls

Ran in 5 of the last 5 Falls.

From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.

From the registrar's catalog

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.

Sections in Fall 2026

You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.

Seat counts as of 02 Sep 02:41: the oldest of these 11 readings. The registrar publishes hourly and dibs reads what it can each hour, so a row can be older than that.

• Lec 1 Time TBA

  Open

  Mooney, L.J., Carswell, J.P., and Mohan, P. and an unnamed TA

  3.79

  course average · 3,564 grades

  5 seats left. 115 of 120 enrolled high risk i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  10 discussions, 1 open: Dis 1A, R 9:00am-9:50am.

  › Every discussion, with its time and seats (10)

  • Dis 1A

    R 9:00am-9:50am · Melnitz Hall 2586B

    limited limited to: First-Year Freshmen Only, and Film and Television Majors: restrictions read 0 minutes ago
    Open

    5 seats left.

    15 of 20 enrolled

  • Dis 1B

    Time TBA · Online - Asynchronous

    Closed

    10 of 10 enrolled

  • Dis 1C

    Time TBA · Online - Asynchronous

    Closed

    10 of 10 enrolled

  • Dis 1D

    Time TBA · Online - Asynchronous

    Closed

    10 of 10 enrolled

  • Dis 1E

    Time TBA · Online - Asynchronous

    Closed

    10 of 10 enrolled

  • Dis 1F

    Time TBA · Online - Asynchronous

    Closed

    10 of 10 enrolled

  • Dis 1G

    Time TBA · Online - Asynchronous

    Closed

    10 of 10 enrolled

  • Dis 1H

    Time TBA · Online - Asynchronous

    Closed

    10 of 10 enrolled

  • Dis 1I

    Time TBA · Online - Asynchronous

    Closed

    20 of 20 enrolled

  • Dis 1J

    Time TBA · Online - Asynchronous

    Closed

    10 of 10 enrolled

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 113 and 267 a term over 10 terms, summer excluded, most recently 198 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.