FILM 359 — VISUAL EFFECTS CINEMATOGRAPHY (CUR-083)

Summary 🟢 ✓

• Resource type: course
• Owner Unit: Film and Television Production
• College/School: Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media
• Curriculum section: Art, Media, and Design
• Catalog: FILM 359
• Last Verified: 2026-05-28

Course access

• Level: green (Open Enrollment)
• Rationale: No formal prerequisites listed in catalog description; open to any student meeting university registration rules.
• Prerequisites: None listed in catalog description

Verification

• Status: verified_catalog_course (✓)
• Rationale: Appears in the current official DePaul course catalog search.
• Source URL: catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/film
• Last verified: 2026-05-28

Catalog description

This course examines both traditional "in-camera" and contemporary digital visual effects techniques and the tools used to create them from a cinematographer's vantage point. Students will develop a sense of when to use each technique to achieve a specific visual task. FILM 350 and ( FILM 155 or FILM 355 ) are prerequisitesfor this class.

Hardware relevance

Hands-on labs, fabrication, instrumentation, or physical production technology described in the official catalog course description.

Notes

Catalog course key: FILM 359. Course offerings and schedules are not verified in this pass.