CAMERA, LIGHTS & SOUND - Vancouver

CAMERA, LIGHTS & SOUND
2 sessions x 7 hours
Sat/Sun September 25 & 26, 11 AM - 6 PM

Cost: $260 or $210 with Producer Membership
Instructors: Dinka Pignon and Asa Mori

This two-day workshop introduces students to the Sony PD-150 and the PD-170 digital camera packages, as well as Sony HVR-Z5U high definition camera. We will covers technical aspects of camera operation, sound recording, and basic lighting principles.

FINAL CUT PRO - INTRO
2 sessions x 4 hours
Tue/Thu September 14 & 16, 6-10 PM

Cost: $200 or $160 with Producer Membership
Instructor: Mark Curry

This workshop provides an overview of Final Cut Pro 6 from capturing video to printing to tape. It covers all the basics including starting and organizing a project, log and capture (DV), basic editing, trim editing, introduction to transitions and filters, titling, audio tools, and exporting to tape.

Prerequisite: Basic Mac literacy

FINAL CUT PRO - INTERMEDIATE: EDITING
1 sessions x 4 hours
Tue September 21, 6-10 PM

Cost: $125 or $100 with Producer Membership
Instructor: Mark Curry

This course starts where the Beginner Final Cut Pro workshop ends, offering a more in-depth understanding of what is possible with the program. The course covers: capturing HDV and working with HDV formats; troubleshooting timecode capture issues; match frame edits; replace and fit to fill edits; trim edit window; nesting; importing and working with Photoshop layers; importing from audio CD; cutting to the beat and markers; keyboard shortcuts and the toolbar; workflow options; introduction to exporting to various QuickTime formats; introduction to exporting to web and DVD formats (H.264 and MPEG2) via Compressor; and media management. Prerequisite: Basic competency with Final Cut Pro including capturing, timeline editing, and basic effects and transitions.

Prerequisite: Basic competency with Final Cut Pro including capturing, timeline editing, and basic effects and transitions.

FINAL CUT PRO - INTERMEDIATE: EFFECTS
1 sessions x 4 hours
Tue September 28, 6-10 PM

Cost: $125 or $100 with Producer Membership
Instructor: Mark Curry

This course starts where the Beginner Final Cut Pro workshop ends, offering a more in-depth understanding of what is possible with the program. The course covers: color correction, mattes, alpha channels & compositing; keying; cropping, sizing, motion graphics (motion paths) and keyframing; audio transitions, audio filters and fixing audio problems.

Prerequisite: Basic competency with Final Cut Pro including capturing, timeline editing, and basic effects and transitions.

AFTER EFFECTS
3 session x 3 hours
Mon/Wed/Fri September 20, 22 & 24, 6 - 9 PM

Cost: $200 or $160 with Producer Membership
Instructor: Majid Bagheri

This workshop provides a fundamental understanding of post-production workflow in Adobe After Effects. It covers a range of subjects including compositing in 2d and 3d, working with video and graphics, titling, visual effects, keying, and animation. Lab handouts and exercise files will be provided.

Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of digital video and editing software (e.g. iMovie, Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Avid).

VIDEO PROJECT WORKSHOP
4 session x 3 hours
Tue September 21 & 28 + October 5 & 12 , 7-10 PM

Cost: $220 or $180 with Producer Membership
Instructor: Flick Harrison

Bring Your Own Project for a push in the right direction! Whether you are a senior artist or just starting out, this supportive, challenging and creative workshop will help you focus your ideas or works-in-progress and take them from one step to the next. Bring jumbled notes, rough sketches, video clips in quicktime format, technical questions, aesthetic dilemmas, rough edits on DVD or FCP project files, pie-in-the-sky – everything is possible! Be prepared to react honestly to other people's work, and hear honest feedback on your own.

Workshop leader Flick Harrison has taught media arts for 10 years and made video for even longer.

LIGHTROOM
1 session x 4 hours
Sat September 18, 1-5 PM

Cost: $100 or $80 with Producer Membership
Instructor: Majid Bagheri

Adobe Lightroom supports a very easy and intuitive workflow compared to Photoshop. It also contains unique tools for image management and organization which come very useful while dealing with a large number of pictures. This intensive workshop provides an in-depth understanding of Lightroom. It covers all modules and tools available in the program including catalogues and collections, rating and filtering, non-destructive editing, working with camera raw files, and exporting for print and web (flash).

Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of digital photography. Students are encouraged to bring their own pictures to develop.

CIRCUIT BUILDING
2 sessions x 3.5 hours
Mon/Wed September 20 & 22 , 6-9:30 PM

Cost: $150 or $120 with Producer Membership
Instructor: David Leith

A base knowledge of electronics gives the artist the opportunity to introduce electronic circuitry into a variety of media including sculpture, sound, and light-based works. This course will cover some basic theory of electronic principals that is essential for beginning to work with this medium. From there we will look at some of the components that make up simple circuits and that create the building blocks for more complex circuits. Students will learn some of the basic skills needed for electronic work such as soldering, breadboarding, and reading a schematic. These skills will be used to build a simple audio amplifier. We will experiment with different inputs such as contact microphones and how to modify the sound output from the speaker.

The cost of materials that you take home with you ($10-15) is included in the workshop fee.

CIRCUIT BENDING
2 sessions x 3.5 hours
Mon/Wed September 27 & 29, 6-9:30 PM

Cost: $150 or $120 with Producer Membership
Instructor: David Leith

Circuit bending enables artists to work with complex circuitry without any prior knowledge of electronics in order to create works spanning a variety of artistic media. By adding new variables we can transform and customize circuits that would be too complex for most of us to build from the ground up. We will cover all aspects to get you started with circuit bending, from prying open your first case to putting the knobs on a completed project. Bring 1 or 2 circuits to bend and any parts or modifying elements that you would like to use (we will have some modifiers on hand). Here are some ideas for circuit bending starting points: keyboards, radios, answering machines, portable televisions and tape decks. Don't let that limit you though. It's going to be exciting.

The cost of materials that you take home with you ($10-15) is included in the workshop fee.

VIVO Media Arts Centre
1965 Main Street, Vancouver BC
vivomediaarts.com
604.872.8337