Orientation to the Public Media Network
One session
FREE
Take your first step into the exciting worlds of television and radio at the Access Center’s free Orientation. You’ll get a look into the high-tech yet very accessible worlds of community radio and community television. It's here that you can determine which path you'd like to take - audio, visual or both.
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Basic Radio
One session
$15
You have an idea for a radio show. Find out what steps are needed to get approval to air it, as well as what equipment and software is available to you for production. Learn how fun and easy it is to use Garage Band and i-Tunes.
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Pre-Production Techniques
One session
$15
You’ve got the great idea for a program. But how do you get that idea from your head to the screen? Planning, planning, planning! Pre-production planning will get you started and help take the nervousness out of your production. As you learn the language of television, you’ll turn your idea into a script and plan your shoot with treatments, storyboards, and other planning tools. A must-take class for both new and veteran producers, this workshop is required before you are fully certified in Main Studio Production or Final Cut HD non-linear editing.
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Photoshop Elements
One session
$15
Learn how to manipulate photos and graphics to help "Brand" your show by creating logos, lower thirds, "bugs" and title pages that are positively unique.
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Mini-DV Camcorder Production
One session
$15
In this workshop you’ll learn about the specifics of using PMN's digital cameras and about using tripods, shot composition, and a little about location lighting and location audio.
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Tape-to-tape Editing
Two sessions
$30
Video shot on location is rarely ready to play “as-is.” Sometimes all a program needs are titles at the beginning and credits at the end. Other times more extensive editing is required to take things out or maybe add something new. These and other changes are done in post-production editing. In this two-evening workshop, you’ll learn to take your video footage, and by editing it from one tape to another, turn it into a finished, complete program.
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Final Cut Pro Express
Co-requisite: Pre-production Techniques
Unleash your creative spirit! Quick cuts and smooth transitions for hot video productions are now at your fingertips in the Final Cut Express digital editing suites. You’ll have more control over audio, video, text and graphics than you ever thought possible. Create different sequences at different times then combine them into a seamless whole.
Two Sessions $30
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Live Type
Prerequisite: FC Express
Enhance your Final Cut editing with professional graphics software. Using Live Type create eye-popping title pages, logos & animations.
One Session $15
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Robo-Studio Production
One session
$15
The Robo-Studio is the quickest, easiest way to get your "voice" on television. Control three cameras, add titles and graphics all from a single console. If you aspire to be the next Oprah or Leno, this is the place for you.
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Main Studio Production
Two sessions
$30
Co-requisites: Pre-production Techniques and Instant Studio
Whether you’re planning a talk show, a live call-in forum or a music performance, your training in camera use, lighting, audio, as well as directing, graphics and use of the teleprompter in the control room will set you on the road to producing your own program. We’ll help take the mystery out of the language and technology that makes this state-of-the-art studio run.
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