GO GO VIDEO!
w/ Mike Nourse

TIME: Mondays 7-10 PM
COST: $100/month
STARTS: Monday Feb. 6th
EXHIBTION: Friday, May 12th

SIGN UP & QUESTIONS: email mike

CLASS DESCRIPTION
Since we started CAD, there has been much interest in specifically learning video editing and production. Unfortunately none of our offerings have been specifically designed to teach video editing, although we have touched on it a little bit in all three of our programs to date (Love it or Leave it, Man vs. Machine, and recently completed Street Studies). So as a result I have decided to start a video editing/production workshop/class.

The idea here is to guide people through a learning process each week, and give you excercises to practice and learn from, along with readings and screenings, critique sessions and maybe a visiting speaker or two somewhere down the road. The hope here is for a small group to learn and develop video editing skills as well as video production experience.
Because it would be a small group setting, I imagine people would all learn from me directly and indirectly from each other. I believe our new space is set up very well for this type of offering, especially for a small group of around 5-6 students. We have 5 great workstations as well as wireless airport for those who have wireless-enabled laptops.

We will be primarily learning and working with Apple's Final Cut Pro, although we will also at some point touch on other programs such as Apple's iDVD and iMovie, Adobe's Photoshop and Illustrator, Arkaos Vj, and maybe even Digidesign's Protools (bridging the gap between sound and video). We also have nice cameras, lights, tripods, video mixers, microphones, and other toys to play with. And as a final bonus, we have a great courtyard in back, which allows for the occasional spontaneous BBQ (and everyone loves a bbq!).

So we are looking at having the weekly sessions meet Mondays from 7-10PM. There would probably be open studio time either before or after. This way people would get a mix of formal and informal videowork. The class would meet each week for a price of $100 month. July for example has 5 Saturdays, so that would mean each session would cost only 20 bucks. Not bad if you ask me. The class would be ongoing, with scheduled breaks for holidays and the like.

If you don't manage to get into this specific workshop don't worry. If there is enough interest I would be happy to start a 2nd, separate section. But I do feel strongly about keeping the groups small. Just from my experience it makes for learning software and production more efficient.