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DIR 488 — DIRECTING ACTORS FOR THE CAMERA (FORMERLY FILM 488) (CUR-258)

Summary 🟢 ✓

  • Resource type: course
  • Owner Unit: Film and Television Directing
  • College/School: Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media
  • Curriculum section: Art, Media, and Design
  • Catalog: DIR 488
  • Last Verified: 2026-07-01

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

Catalog description

MFA Directors from SCA and acting students from TTS explore unique challenges and opportunities of collaboration between film directors, cinematographers, and theater actors. As preparation for their thesis film, emphasis will be placed on collaboration, with the director facilitating the relationship between camera and performer along with visual storytelling, blocking, and onset logistical considerations. Through a series of in-class exercises students will rehearse and film scenes for 2 - 3 actors.

Hardware relevance

Discovery pass: harvest include: signals: camera(?:s)?\b, cinematograph

Notes

Catalog course key: DIR 488.

Provenance (promotion record)

  • Promotion date: 2026-07-01
  • Promotion batch: catalog-course-promotion-2026-06-30
  • Provenance kernel:
  • depaul/XTR-000197 ← depaul/SRC-000651 (catalog_description)
  • Extraction status: linked
  • Evidence packets:
  • 2026-06-30-resource-map-catalog-related-courses
  • Schedule (capture): Not offered in queried registrar terms
  • Evidence captures:
  • Catalog: sources/inbox/2026-06-30-resource-map-catalog-related-courses/source_snapshot/captured/catalog-search-DIR-488.html
  • Schedule: sources/inbox/2026-06-30-resource-map-catalog-related-courses/source_snapshot/captured/schedule-DIR-488.json
  • Notes: Promoted from catalog discovery evidence packets; XTR/SRC linkage to be completed in forthcoming provenance refactor.