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.
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.
Register to take your Apple Certified Pro Exam for Final Cut Pro End User, Level One. Individual dates and tmes for exams are also availabe. Prerequisite: FCP 101, 200, 250, or equivalent experience. Suggested: Practice exam available on Apple’s website; Practice and Review for FCP 101 (57911P). Notes: Exams are non-refundable. See 57990V to customize your exam schedule.
Now, more than ever before, documentary filmmakers are bringing controversial topics about the environment out into the open. See and discuss film excerpts from some of the latest films in this fascinating area of documentary. Join Documentary Filmmaker Reinhard Lorenz to learn about the making of environmental documentaries and discuss New Mexico’s initiative to make feature film productions more environmentally conscious.
Explore the relationships between nature’s patterns and shapes and effectively designed visual communications. We will deconstruct the underlying principles of successful visual communications and how they relate to the natural world with exercises and experiments to increase the student’s facility with more effective and aesthetic design. The student will apply what they learn to a personal design project that develops skills in self-expression, design aesthetics and understanding principles of nature’s process. A field trip and guest demonstrations by designers and artists are included. Equipment and materials cost about $25. A materials list wil be available the first day of class. Prerequisite: 55101. Suggested: 55105 or 55201.
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