CLASS DESCRIPTIONS
Orientation
Learn the basics about your public access channel and how you can best make use of it. This session is designed to answer your questions, explore what you'd like to do and help you get started. Includes signing up for classes and a tour of the facility. 1+ hour. Tuition: free and recommended for all users of public access Channels 27, 28, & 30.
Length: 1 hour
Class size: Unlimited
Tuition: Free
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Studio Production
Make Your Own TV Show.... or star in one! Learn producing,
directing, cameras, audio, graphics, and more! Get hands-on training in our
state-of-the-art television studio! Air your programs on our cable channels
to 30,000 households on the mid–peninsula! Make new friends as a studio crew volunteer. See the programs our students have made. You will too, at your final class date.
Length: 20 hours
Class size: 8 - 12
Tuition: $145
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Field Production
Learn how to operate video field production equipment (camcorders, mics, tripods, lights) and basic
production techniques. Includes one day of free camcorder after completing the class. Isn’t there an
event you want to record, or somebody you want to interview?
Length: 8 hours
Class size: 4 - 9
Tuition: $90
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Publish Your Media on the Web
Digitize, Compress, Publish, Promote. Learn the whole process from videotape to YouTube or Blip.TV etc.
Length: 2.5 hours
Class size: 3 - 4
Tuition: $45
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Taming the Deko: Basics
Graphic Potentials of our Control Room Titler. Learn how to get around the oddities of our graphics software to make cool titles for studio production. Includes login procedures, creating opening titles, lower thirds, credit rolls and more. Review of design tips, keyboard shortcuts and transitions.
Length: 3 hours
Class size: 3 - 4
Tuition: $35
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Commanding the Deko
Advanced levels of our Control Room Titler. Learn to import graphic images into Deko from the Media Center's art library or off the web. Manipulate imported graphics in Paint Shop Pro. Create multi-layer, multi-style designs. Animate your titles with wipes and reveals. Plumb Deko's depths.
Length: 3 hours
Class size: 3 - 4
Tuition: $35
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Multi-Camera on Location: Performance & Sports Coverage
Learn how to take a whole studio out into the field. Set up 3 cameras connected to a Director's station
with switcher, audio mixer, titler etc. This requires a team of three from a group that wants to do high
level coverage of their group's events.
Length: 4 hours
Class size: 3 - 9
Tuition: $75
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Advanced Final Cut Pro: Refining Your Vision
Get in deeper with our Mac-based video editing software. Opt to
fine-tune your project-in-progress, ask for help in a specific area,
or simply have fun learning new tricks. Investigate graphics, motion
effects and compression for making DVDs. Discover additional software
bundled with Final Cut, such as Live Type.
Bring 30 minutes of footage to work with, saved as .mov files on a
hard drive or flash memory.
Length: 9 hours
Class size: 3 - 8
Tuition: $160
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Editing with Apple Final Cut Pro
Start on the path to editing mastery. This class
offers a hands –on guide to the latest version of professional editing
software, Final Cut Pro from Apple. Digitize and assemble your material in any order.
Insert visuals over interviews. Add music and narration. Superimpose titles.
Length: 8 hours
Class size: 3 - 8
Tuition: $110
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Editing with Apple iMovie
Start on the path to editing mastery with the software that comes with every new Mac computer.
Digitize and assemble your material in any order.
Insert visuals over interviews. Add music and narration. Superimpose titles.
Length: 6 hours
Class size: 4 - 5
Tuition: $80
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How to edit a dazzling promo. Advanced Final Cut Pro (Mac software)
Learn to use motion effects, video filters, audio filters, as well as some related software such as Live Type for titling and Compressor for putting movies on the web.
Length: 9 hours
Class size: 3 - 4
Tuition: $180
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Podcasting
Get Your Digital Fix! In a production and performance environment, learn how to create, produce and deliver your own audio podcasts, and how to insert them into the mainstream real-life environment. Covers telephone interviews, equipment & software, basic audio editing with Audacity, publishing to the net, and RSS
Length: 3 sessions totaling 9 hours
Class size: 3 - 6
Tuition: $130
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Introduction to Digital Photography - Editing Photographs Digitally
Instructor is Godfrey DiGiorgi.
This workshop session is designed to provide a simple foundation of information and knowledge for the beginner and experienced photographer alike with respect to the editing and manipulation of digital photographs. In this session you will learn how applications for digital photography work and when to choose which. We'll also review simple computer setup for digital photography. In the hands-on we will spend plenty of time exploring the subject in conjunction, answering and asking questions that will give you a solid basis for understanding and working with your photographs. No pre-requisites.
Length: 3.5 hours
Class size: 3 - 8
Tuition: $55
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Introduction to Digital Photography - Understanding Digital Cameras"
Instructor is Godfrey DiGiorgi.
A small class focused on your needs and questions!
This workshop session is intended to enhance your knowledge and understanding of the digital camera. We will explore how digital cameras work and how that differs from film cameras ... and why it is significant. You'll bring your digital camera and its instruction manual: we'll look at a variety of the functions and features, explore how to choose options to use it best. We'll talk about how those functions and features apply to all digital cameras. Of course, well also talk about how to choose a digital camera! In the hands-on we will spend plenty of time experimenting with taking pictures, changing settings, and, as usual, asking and answering questions to allow you to exploit your camera better in making great photographs. No pre-requisites. Students are required to bring their digital cameras and instruction manuals.
Length: 3.5 hours
Class size: 3 - 8
Tuition: $55
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Digital photography for the Film Camera User
Instructor is Godfrey DiGiorgi.
Photographers love the look and feel of film images. The advent of digital photography has pushed film photography out of the center spot of photographys interest, but digital image processing and the use of the internet both stand to offer advantage to the use of film cameras and extend their capabilities in several ways. In this workshop session, we will look at film images and how to bring them into the digital domain via scanning or capture with a digital camera. We'll explore how working with the scanned film image in the digital domain can enhance it, and look at how it can be a benefit in printing and distributing those film qualities. In the hands-on time, we'll experiment with scanning and optical capture of film images. And of course there will be plenty of time to ask and answer questions in order that you can take away a solid understanding of how digital processing can enhance your film camera work. Pre-requisite: #1 or approval of instructor.
Length: 3.5 hours
Class size: 3 - 8
Tuition: $55
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Introduction to Lightroom - Essentials to Understanding and Use
Instructor is Godfrey DiGiorgi.
Recent years has seen the development of much better, more efficient tools that address in very powerful ways the specific needs of digital photography. Adobe's Photoshop Lightroom is a class-leading contender in this development arc, and has become the essential working tool of great numbers of photographers. In this workshop, we will explore the basics of using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom to manage and process your photographs. We'll explore the import process, add captions, titles, and other metadata to them, and then learn how to sort and pick images for adjustment. We will examine the flow of operations in Lightroom for adjusting color and tone, cropping and spot removal. And we'll look at how to export your finished photos to finished image files for use outside of Lightroom. In the hands-on time, you'll practice the techniques we've discussed with either your own photos or with a set of photos provided, and will have plenty of time to ask and answer questions, allowing you to take away the basic skills for working with your photographs using this specially-made for photography tool. Pre-requisite: #1 or approval of instructor.
Length: 3.5 hours
Class size: 3 - 8
Tuition: $55
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Introduction to Processing Photographs with Photoshop
Instructor is Godfrey DiGiorgi.
Long a staple of the digital photography community, Photoshop keeps getting better and more powerful. We'll start here with the basics: this workshop focuses on learning how just a few of Photoshop's many tools can achieve great results with your photographs. We will concentrate on working with layers and masks, learning how these can be used to adjust an image overall or selectively. You will analyze images, learning how to approach the editing process from a basis of that analysis and understanding. Well discuss sharpening fundamentals and how to apply them. In the hands-on time, you will work with several image files to practice the techniques and cement them in your hands and memory. And of course, there will be plenty of time to ask and answer questions allowing you to take away a solid foundation from which to go much further with Photoshop. Pre-requisite: #1 or approval of instructor.
Length: 3.5 hours
Class size: 3 - 8
Tuition: $55
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Organizing Your Digital Photography - Managing The Computer
Instructor is Godfrey DiGiorgi.
This workshop session is designed to provide you with a basis for how to consider your digital photography in terms of the computer and its environment. It is designed to explain and make clear what different kinds of image files are, how and why they differ. And then how to organize them to best advantage for editing and archiving in the computer file system. Fundamentals of metadata ... titles, captions and keyword schemes ... and how they are useful will be explained. In the hands-on time we will spend plenty of time for you to experiment with these concepts, answering and asking questions that will give you confidence and security when working with your computer to do photography. Pre-requisite: #1 or approval of instructor.
Length: 3.5 hours
Class size: 3 - 8
Tuition: $55
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Creating Black & White Photographs from Digital Images
Instructor is Godfrey DiGiorgi.
In this workshop, we will explore the fundamentals of making quality digital prints. From a discussion and demonstration of display calibration, we will explore the principles of color management and then delve into printing facilities with both Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom. We'll discuss how to prepare images for sending to a print service. And review principles of sharpening with respect to the printing process. In the hands-on time, you'll put the concepts we've discussed to use and expand on them with question and answer time. You will leave this system with the printing process concepts well in hand, ready for you to produce excellent prints. Pre-requisite: #1 or approval of instructor.
Class size: 3 - 8
Tuition: $55
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The Black & White image has been a staple of photography for two centuries. The advent of digital capture and image processing has not reduced its importance to photographers at all, in fact there has been a renaissance of interest in rendering Black & White in recent years. In this workshop, we will explore the process of creating B&W with digital cameras and image files. Using existing images as a starting point, we'll learn how to see the B&W opportunities and how to approach the rendering using Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop's tools. In the hands-on time, you'll take some of your own or supplied image files as a starting point and learn to apply these techniques, while asking and answering questions to give you a great starting point from which to explore Black & White photography in the digital domain. Pre-requisite: #1 or approval of instructor.
Digital Stories
In a supportive, creative setting, create an autobiographical story with narrative, images, & music, or a tribute to someone dear. The workshop
takes place over 3 days and two weekends. There is some preliminary brainstorming work and gathering of photos before the workshop. It's your option to publish
these keepsakes or not.
Length: 25 hours
Class size: 3 - 5
Tuition: $350
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Please feel free to call us at (650) 494-8686 x10 for more information
Fax: (650) 494-8386
Email: classes@midpenmedia.org |
