Friday, February 8, 2008

New Classes coming to WYOU


NEW CLASSES OFFERED:

INTRO TO GREEN/BLUE SCREEN TECHNIQUES:
Monday, March 3rd
6-8pm

(1-session course -- $15)
Learn to use chroma key techniques in your video work. "Keying" is a term used for when a background is removed from a subject. This allows a weatherman to be superimposed on animated maps or Frodo to appear in lava-filled Mount Doom. This tutorial will take you all the way from a studio shoot to final compositing (merging background and subject) on Final Cut Pro.

TITLING 101:
Monday, March 19th
6-8pm

(1-session course -- $15)
Easily learn to use Apple's LiveType to spice up your titles, credits, lower thirds and more! This tutorial will introduce you to the library of backgrounds and animated fonts available within LiveType. We'll then take these component pieces and put them together within Final Cut Pro to make truly professional-level credits and titles.

STUDIO MICROPHONES 101:
Coming Soon
6-8pm

(1-session course -- $15)
Become familiar with and learn to properly use the wide variety of microphones available at the WYOU studio in your video work. From hand-helds, lavalieres, and shotguns, to boom poles, phantom power, gain, EQ, and feedback. MMMM...Feedback.

COLOR CORRECTION:
Coming Soon
6-8pm

(1-session course -- $15)
From our manual camera controller units in our control room to light settings on our checkout Canon GL1 cameras, there are many ways to go right and wrong. Learn to get good color the first time in this tutorial of this equipment. Then Learn to use post-production techniques in Final Cut Pro to get your recorded color (good OR bad) to truly professional (or, at least acceptable) balance.

ADVANCED GREEN SCREEN IN
AFTER EFFECTS :
Coming Soon
6-8pm

(1-session course -- $15)
Take your green screen editing techniques to a new level using the dynamite program Adobe After Effects.

MOBILE MIXING 101:
Coming Soon
6-8pm

(1-session course -- $15)
Learn to use our mobile mixing unit (available for checkout ONLY to certified producers) to produce real-time mixes with multiple cameras. Mix rockin' band concerts, nerdy lectures, or exciting sporting events all in real-time, cutting the need for post-production beyond adding titles.

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