NEW handmadevideo
classes ....
In September we will begin offering group
lessons and seminars designed to improve your personal, corporate and
creative projects.
Topics include Camera Discipline, Creative Lighting, and Script Writing.
Classes in Adobe After Effects and Video for the Web are available as
well.
Private lessons are available.
We are in the planning stage for the following classes to be held at a well known location in the Midway area of Saint Paul starting in early September.
Five
Simple Ways to Improve your Video Quality- One
2.5 hour session $44.00
A quick
look at the simplest ways to improve video quality. If you have a camera
and some editing software but aren't always thrilled with the results
consider this short seminar that hits all the important points. Topics
include Production Planning: the what, where, who and
how of it all; Managing Creativity: keeping the ball
rolling with creative script writing; A Theory of Film:
how to keep your audience involved and needing more; Camera Discipline:
cameras are not extensions of the eyes- here's why. Fix your
approach so it looks and is good. Includes POV, shot selection, avoiding
the "mom and pop" angles. Finally a word or two on Sound
and Lighting concepts that can save your good production from
disaster!
Introduction
to Adobe After Effects
Six 2 hour
sessions: Download a demo copy from Adobe and Bring you Laptop! $249
A
very inexpensive but thorough introduction to the most fundamental do-it-all
video tool around. Learn to build
video in layers; learn animation techniques and basic approaches to creating
transparencies, begin to animate text designs and titles. Apply and animate
effects and learn the fundamentals of color correction and keying green
screen shots.
Community
Video Project Six 2 hour sessions:
$249
This innovative offering follows
the idea of community theater. Our initial project will be the production
of scenes from "The
Liar," a short story by Tobias Wolff. Six 2 hour sessions
will cover a complete production and post cycle finishing selected scenes
from the short story about a boy's inability to stop telling bizarre and
morbid lies. Used with the author's permission.
Compressing
and Uploading Video for the Web One Two Hour
session: $39.00
Once your production is complete
you'll want to compress it and upload it to your web page, to youtube,
myspace, facebook, googlevideo and other, very cool places to showcase
video on the net. Embed video from other sites directly on your own site
as well. Quicktime Pro oriented.
If you have an interest in attending these classes please let us know as it will help in planning the schedule. Thanks.