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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Digital 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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Digital 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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Adobe Photoshop for Photographers: A Simple Approach
Instructor is Godfrey DiGiorgi.
Lab time throughout to practice techniques. Learn the best professional software program to process your digital photos straight from your camera or scanner. This two-session workshop focuses on learning how to get the most from just a few of Photoshop's tools to achieve great results: Levels, Curves, Layers and Masks. In both lecture and lab time, we will examine organizing your files and how to work efficiently. You'll be introduced to methods and concepts for sharpening and printing. No prior Photoshop experience required.
Length: 7 hours
Class size: 3 - 8
Tuition: $135
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Adobe Lightroom: "Starting In The Middle"
Instructor is Godfrey DiGiorgi.
A small class focused on your needs and questions!
A two-session workshop for photographers interested to learn how to use Adobe Lightroom. No prerequisites, some familiarity with Photoshop and image processing workflow is helpful. Students are welcome to bring a library of their own work, either on external hard drive or laptop.
Learn how to transition your work from Photoshop into Lightroom, or start from scratch with Lightroom as the principal tool for your image processing workflow. Explore how to organize your work in order to use the Lightroom Library, Import and image processing tools efficiently. Learn how to integrate with Photoshop seamlessly. Examine and understand the use of templates in the Lightroom modules to make your work faster, easier and more consistent. Learn how to use Export as well as the Slideshow, Printing and Web modules to output finished photographs. There will be time given throughout the session for hands-on and Q&A.
Length: 7 hours
Class size: 3 - 8
Tuition: $135
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Creating B&W Photographs: A Digital Approach
Instructor is Godfrey DiGiorgi.
A two-day (9 hrs. total), hands-on workshop exploring the creation and rendering of black and white photographs using digital means. Learn techniques for shooting with your digital camera as well as how to scan B&W or Color negatives and render them into presentation quality B&W photographs. Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom image processing applications will be used. You will be guided through a variety of different rendering approaches and printing techniques. The class will focus on doing, be prepared to bring your own photographs to work on! No prerequisites required, some background in using Photoshop or Lightroom is helpful.
Length: 9 hours
Class size: 3 - 8
Tuition: $135
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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 |
