DIGITAL VIDEO WORKSHOP


Next workshop: TBA
One-day seminar: Selected Saturdays, 12 noon to 6.30pm.

With Youtube, online video, and low-cost HD video gear, a production and distribution dream has come true for independent filmmakers, artists, and anyone who has ever wanted to express their own vision through moving images. Focused on how to achieve professional looking and sounding video on a low budget, this extraordinarily comprehensive, down-to-earth class is loaded with practical and personalized advice. If you're thinking of buying or renting equipment, or have just purchased something and don't fully understand how to use it, this is the class for you. It provides both the "big picture" overview and the practical, budget-focused tips that can help you get started, nudge a project along, or decide which avenues of further study are right for you.

TOPICS INCLUDE

  • Production Strategies
  • Camcorders: differences, HD vs. SD, Buying vs. Renting, Fundamentals and Basic Shooting Technique, Accessories: Tripod, Microphones, Lights, Pro vs. Consumer
  • Formats: MiniDV, HDV, DigiBeta, Hard Disk, and Solid State Memory Options and Trade-offs
  • Computers for Video Editing (Mac and Windows)
  • IEEE-1394 (Firewire), USB, and other video/audio connections
  • Editing Software: (Final Cut, Avid, iMovie, Movie Maker, etc.)
  • Lighting Basics
  • Editing Techniques Crash Course
  • Distribution for Independent Filmmakers: Theatrical, DVD/Blu-ray, Cable/Satellite, YouTube and Internet
Instructor: CLIFF ROTH
Cliff Roth, an independent filmmaker, has taught video production at the School of Visual Arts, and audio production at the Institute for Audio Research. He has written extensively about video for a variety of publications (including The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNET, Videomaker, and Rolling Stone) and has authored two books, "The Low Budget Video Bible," and "Mobile Computing for Dummies." For five years he has been the editor of Video/Imaging DesignLine, covering developments in video technology. The Stoned Channel, Roth's first feature, combines 16mm and video filmmaking. The Reagans Speak Out On Drugs, Roth's hilarious short, has screened at many festivals and on USA network cable-TV, and was created at the Millennium Film Workshop, where Roth has taught since 1986.

Workshop Fee: $90
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