55932 Cinematography II: Lights, Camera, Action!
This hands-on action-packed course gives participants the feeling of what it’s like to work on an actual film
or television production. In this follow-up to Cinematography Basics: Lights, Camera, Action!, students
participate in realistic production scenarios in a working motion picture studio. Production simulations include lighting and shooting dolly and jib shots, multicamera entertainment, and “poor man’s process” or creating the illusion of a moving vehicle inside the controlled environment of a film studio. Prerequisite: 55931 or 23473.
Tuition: $259
For: 12 hours
FQA: Nov 7-8 Sa Su 9:00am-4:00pm
Note: Class meets at Rio Grande Studios. A $75 studio
fee will be collected the first day of class, payable to the
instructor.
Learn the techniques of creating a strong sense of depth in your photos by utilizing in-camera controls and making the most of photographic opportunities. Topics include the use of aperture and focal length to control depth of field and a comprehensive understanding of how light, background and textures can be used to make your images pop! Prerequisite: 55801/3, must have a digital camera with manual capabilities.
Achieve satisfying and professional-looking footage using your personal digital video camera by applying basic skills and shooting techniques. Emphasis is on hands-on training and video exercises. Topics include camera movement and composition, types of shots that make up a scene, basic lighting setups, microphones and audio, and how to shoot with editing in mind. Prerequisite: 55911, must have a digital video camera.
Develop materials to promote yourself, your business and/or your art online and offline. From media kits to promotional calendars, your view of self-marketing will move forward exponentially as a result of this content-packed, practical class. Artists, designers and other professionals will plan and execute publicity tactics with confidence as a result.
Come experience the 22nd Annual Festival of the Cranes at Bosque del Apache and the Holiday Festival of the Cranes Crafts Show in Socorro. This is the largest event held in Socorro County each year and UNM Continuing Education has organized a trip on Saturday, November 21, 2009 from 8am-7pm to experience it. An $82 course fee includes a boxed lunch, tour guide (expert, Steve Cox), and transportation. Come prepared to do some holiday shopping bring your cameras to capture the cranes.
Many contemporary websites are built on content management systems (CMS). These prebuilt frameworks let developers create customized, database-driven websites in days instead of months. Learn to choose, install and configure a CMS, and build a project site on your server or ours. Prerequisites: 58111, 58117, and 58121/31.
Contemporary documentary filmmakers are showcasing environmental issues more frequently. Illegal oil drilling in Alaska or the successful reintroduction of an endangered species into the wild can become the subject of a compelling documentary. In this class, students work on a short environmental film, taking a project from initial idea through script development and shooting to postproduction. We also discuss ways to develop an outreach campaign.
Online advertising budgets now rival or surpass traditional advertising budgets in many industries, including the Entertainment industry. Individual freelancers, small boutiques and large companies take on more and more projects each year to satisfy the increasing demand of online advertising needs by studios, independent filmmakers and other clients. Learn what the four key ingredients are to successfully creating online advertising in the form of websites, banner campaigns, email marketing, social media and more. Join Sony Pictures ImageWorks Interactive Executive Director Tyler Lee to find out about the possibilities of a career in web production and get a clear idea of four critical areas in which you might specialize.
The UNM Provost’s Office is hosting the third and final lecture of its fall lecture series with a theme of Mexican relations and immigration. This lecture is free and open to the public. Renowned Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes will present his lecture on Friday, October 30, from 6:00pm to 7:30pm, with a book signing afterward. Mr. Fuentes will be speaking on “Mexico in a Nutshell,” featuring a panoramic vision concentrated on Mexico (culture, history, society, etc.) from the pre-Hispanic epoch to the present. His lecture will be held at the UNM Student Union Building (SUB) in the Ballroom located on the main floor. The UNM SUB is located on the UNM campus just two blocks north of the UNM Bookstore.
Meet Windows 7, the newest operating system from Microsoft! Learn how to customize your Win7 setup, and to create and work with shortcuts. Practice the use of the taskbar, Windows Explorer, Control Panel, file management, Accessories, the Search utility, and on-line Help. This course is for those with only limited previous Windows experience. Prerequisite: Basic computer knowledge.
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