This class was quite easy and fun, most homework involved watching good movies and answering simple questions about them. The lectures were interesting and well-done. My TA didn't like my screenplay but you get the points for trying so it was okay :-)

Even though the class is about five hours long, Professor Huang doesn't make it feel that way. He's an industry professional who knows his craft and knows it well; enough to easily convey as much to his students. I never felt like the lectures dragged on for too long (and they're uploaded to Canvas anyway) and movies made up the bulk of our class time. Just be sure you attend your discussions and prepare for the weekly quizzes, which are open-book and taken within the discussion period. Super easy to get 100% on all of them. The midterm paper is fun frame analysis that discusses mis-en-scene, and our final is a multiple choice, take-home exam through Canvas too. My TA was also Niall and he was SO informative, chill, and made for a great learning environment. Would definitely take a class with this professor again!

Professor Huang’s class is a really enjoyable experience. You only meet up once a week to watch a movie and discuss the art techniques used in those movies. His class is a must-take GE if you are taking other hard classes. However, one thing I’m not a fan about in this class is the weekly quizzes. They are worth 50% of your grade and more than the midterm (20%) and the final (30%). It is very easy to miss questions on these quizzes if you do not do the readings or attend the lectures. I missed a question on the quizzes once in a while because some questions are nit-picky on various concepts discussed in the class. But, the quizzes are relatively easy and you should get 7/7 on the majority of them. For the other assignments, our midterm was an essay about frame analysis- which I found fun to write- and our final was a 30 MCQ take-home exam. Note-taking is not necessary at lectures, because he posts his lectures on Bruinlearn. However, take down notes if he gives you a hint on a quiz question or if a guest speaker comes in because 5 questions on our final were on a guest speaker’s presentation, and a lot of people missed those questions. If you get Niall as your TA, he is fantastic and makes discussions so entertaining. Overall, it is a pretty easy class if you put in the work. Just make sure to engage with the material and you will get an A.

It's a fun class! The lectures could be shorter but the content itself is interesting.

TAKE THIS CLASS! I took FilmTV33 over the summer asynchronously (A-sesh), and the course was perfectly paced and easy to manage. Professor George Huang was an amazing, funny, and knowledgable lecturer whose passion for screenwriting was infectious. He incorporated its expertise into the course material, given that he was the writer and director of famous films like Swimming with Sharks. The lectures were chronologically-ordered to ease a general audience into the steps of screenwriting - something I was unfamiliar with prior to this class. By the end of this class, you will have written 10 pages of an original screenplay (or you can optionally write your entire screenplay to be reviewed by Professor Huang). It was so fun to get creative and write my own storyline that could be transformed into a movie! Besides the screenplay, this course had weekly quizzes which are super manageable if you watch the lectures and do the assigned readings - so definitely take ample notes on his lectures and do the readings! The lowest quiz score out of the six quizzes is dropped. Also, there is a weekly discussion board where students answer a prompt set by a TA. Besides the weekly quiz and discussion board, there is also a weekly assignment that varies by week. The course load was very manageable, and the feedback you get from your TA and Professor Huang himself is invaluable.

Super fun class. Lecture was pretty long, he could've skimmed it down from 5 hours to 3.5, but still engaging and interesting. I had a great TA too who was super funny. Definitely recommend.

Taking this class inspired me to consider being a film major! Professor George Huang knows what he's talking about from his first-hand industry experience, but is able to make the information land in a way that is understandable & equally interesting. We watched thought-provoking seminal films all connected by the theme of "heist" movies, which ultimately we discovered doubled as a metaphor for film-making, since making a movie in itself is a heist. Huang brought in accomplished actors as guest speakers, and made sure to give us a break between the lecture and the movie each class. Lectures were both clear and engaging and he would often reference relevant media to break up the talking. Slides weren't text heavy, and were accessible on BruinLearn. To be transparent, while we didn't have much weekly reading, I didn't do it until we started writing our final papers. We had weekly Canvas quizzes which were 10 questions (9 MC based on the slides, 1 short answer based on the movie-just to prove you watched it) which on average took 5-10 minutes to complete on your own time, which fulfilled the participation requirement. There was a final on BruinLearn which was about 30 MC questions, and most people passed with flying colors. I reccomend this class to everyone- great way to knock off a GE & get some dinner table conversation topics under your belt!

FILM TV 4 was an excellent and engaging class. It appeals to all levels of interest in film, from those who are not accustomed to film to those who are blossoming auteurs. The films which we watched all had artistic merit and a reason for being shown, and every film was engaging and very fun to write about. George Huang did an incredible job at emphasizing the concepts taught in the class and, while the difficulty of the class sometimes left something to be desired, I had an excellent understanding of the material and find myself applying it within my moviegoing experience all the time. It is an excellent GE that I advertise to anybody who has the attention span to watch a movie, and George Huang was an incredibly friendly and engaging professor with industry experience.

Professor Huang is amazing. When I took this class, he decided to center the films we would watch around "heists". Due to this theme, the movies we watched were super fun and engaging. Some include: Ocean's 11, Set It Off, Dog Day Afternoon, Bad Genius. I would recommend this class to anyone because you learn a lot of technical terms and tools to analyze film in a low-key environment.

- We watched one film each week and had a discussion section once a week that included a short quiz. Super chill as long as you do the reading/watch the film and take some notes.
- There wasn't any homework besides the reading and then 2 papers (midterm, final). I ended up having to take an at home multiple choice final test (instead of the final paper) due to the TA strike but even that was manageable with the notes I collected from lecture and readings.
- discussion is mandatory or else you get points off your quiz
- class meets once a week and is 5 hours... but you get breaks and prof Huang divides it well

Prof Huang is super chill/funny and knows interesting people in the film industry that he invites in to class to speak. (One time my TA took points off of my quiz because she thought I was absent, and I just went to Huang and told him it was a mistake (which it was) and he immediately changed my grade. :) ofc i emailed my ta and she also was willing to correct her mistake but Huang had already done it haha)