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Below is a master list of classes that BMC offers on a regular and custom basis. Please check current schedule.
First Mondays: Orientation to Community Media
Do you want to host our own TV show? Want to document community events? Would you like to make media on issues that affect you and your community? Are you interested in volunteering on a program already in production? Or do you just want to find our more about BMC? Then come to one of the next First Monday and learn how you can become a BMC member, take classes, use our equipment & facilities, find out about policies, and learn the many ways you can be involved at BMC and how your involvement can benefit you, your organization, your school, and your community. Orientation is a requirement for anyone wishing to join the BMC.
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Field Video Production: Beginner
This 4-hour course will introduce you to the camcorders BMC has to offer. The first session will introduce the equipment and cover basic on-location production techniques including: site evaluation, tripod use, Hand-held camera techniques, shot composition, amera movement, audio, lighting. We will work through typical filming scenarios to prepare members for their own productions. Members have the option of bringing their own camcorders for use with hands-on assignments. In the follow-up session students will bring in their own work to discuss technique and related issues.
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Advanced Field Production: Lighting
This 2 session, 4-hour course will focus on lighting. Students bring in their own work to discuss lighting and related issues. We will work through typical filming scenarios to prepare members for their own productions. Other basic on-location production techniques including, site evaluation, tripod use, hand-held camera techniques, shot composition, camera movement, and audio will also be addressed. Members have the option of bringing their own camcorders for use with hands-on assignments.
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Photoshop Elements for Video
Learn how to use Photoshop Elements to work with images and graphics for video projects in iMovie or Final Cut Express. Topics covered include sizing down images to render them in JPEG format. Learn how to cut out backgrounds to create seamless transparency for logos and lower thirds.
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Make a Movie in a Day
One of BMC's most popular classes for youths of all ages, "Make a Movie in One Day" classes are usually offered during school vacations and in the summer. In this fast-paced challenge class, small crews of kids learn how to structure a short movie, then then write a script, shoot, act, direct and finally edit the shots into a finished movie for screening all in the course of one fun day.
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Editing w/ Final Cut Express: Beginner Techniques
In 3 sessions you will learn everything from properly setting up Final Cut Express for video format and organizing your files on the hard drive to transitions, filters, and integrating Photoshop images on the timeline.
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Final Cut Express: Intermediate
(Pre-req: Final Cut Express: Beginner Techniques)
This course will introduce you to advanced features and tools in Final Cut Express to create animated titles, motion graphics, and filter effects. You will learn helpful techniques such as color correction, audio sweetening, and still photo animation. Create and work with multiple sequences within one project. Learn how to control key frames in Final Cut to add animation to video, filters, still images, and layered sequence compositions. Work with advanced titling techniques and composition. Control the flow of rendered files and render preview optimization. Particular emphasis will be placed on integrating exercises for practical application.
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TVKraft: Youth Video Club
Create and produce content for TV Kraft, the BMC series produced and directed by teens. Kids will help design the format for the show, learn the technical aspect of production, plan and begin creating independently produced videos as part of this new monthly show that will air on Belmont Cable and on the web.
Shooting in Studio A: Mutli-Camera Video Production
Using the Broadcast Pix
Shooting in Studio B & Tricaster