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** NEW DESIGN COURSES **
Design For Web
3 Days
This three-day course will see students use Adobe Creative Suite to design and implement a cool, clean, contemporary website. While the course will focus primarily on design, students will learn basics skills in Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Flash to create a standards compliant two columned layout with the following elements:
- Masthead (banner graphic) and footer
- Internal and external links
- Email links
- Images
- Animation and video
Course topics include:
- Introduction to Web Design
- Graphic Design Layout (Introduction to Photoshop)
- Typography: Fonts and the internet
- Introduction to HTML
- Building a simple site (Introduction to Dreamweaver)
- CSS: Seperate Style and Content
- Animated Graphics (Introduction to Flash)
- Putting it all together and publishing the site
Cost: €420 member / €450 non-member
Dates: 12 - 14 Feb
Trainer: Ciarán Maher
Design For Print
3 Days
This three-day course will cover all the stages involved in creating a piece of designed, printed material from inception to delivery of the finished product. Using a combination of Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator, the following areas of Design will be covered:
- Areas of print design; brochures, magazines, book covers, typesetting, packaging, display design
- Sourcing images; legality
- Resolution and colour space: CMYK & RGB
- Discussion of styles/design solutions
- Print options - what paper stock
- Manipulation and combining images and prepping for use in layout (Photoshop)
- Receiving copy
- Discussion of basics of typography - font usage, margins and gutter, use of images, paragraph options etc.
- Creating basic document layouts (InDesign)
- Creation of any illustrative or diagramatic elements (Illustrator); also touching on logo design
- Combining elements on final print ready document
- Creation of low resolution proofs for client
- Implementation of final changes - client sign off
- Creation of high resolution PDFs to send to print
- Roundup discussion of best practices
Cost: €420 member / €450 non-member
Dates: 6 - 8 May
Broadcast Animation Production
8 Evenings
Using a model Flash animated film, the students will be brought through the logical order of an animation production pipeline using the following applications: Adobe's Flash, After Effects, and Apple's Final Cut Pro editing software, (including audio dialog recording). Students will start with basic story principles, and script writing for animation. They will progress to storyboarding their script, designing characters and backgrounds, and creating an animatic. They will finish their film with animating and lip synching their characters, performing camera moves, and polishing their film with special effects.
In conjunction with the animation theory, the students will be creating their own animated short film. The course will culminate with a showing of their films to fellow students, friends and family.
Along with the development of student's animated short films, topics include:
- An introduction to the Broadcast Flash production pipeline and Flash interface
- Story elements and creating characters
- Animation techniques
- Story scripts and storyboarding using Flash templates
- Recording audio dialog and lip synching
- Introduction to animatic building using Final Cut Pro
- Digital layouts including camera movements
- Introduction to After Effects and final editing
Trainer: Clifford Parrot
Cliff is co-author of 'Hollywood 2D Digital Animation' which is the industry standard for Flash based animation production and is used as a text book for many art schools. For Cliff's online portfolio, click here.
Cost: €400 member / €425 non-member
Deposit: €200
Dates: 6 - 29 aPR
Time: 7pm - 10pm
ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS
Adobe After Effects - Level 1
3 Days
Adobe After Effects is an industry leading programme for adding effects and titles to film and video. This hands-on course will introduce students to all the essential features of After Effects.
Within the first day, participants will become familiar with the After Effects interface and its connections to other programmes such as Adobe Photoshop and Final Cut Pro. Over the next two days, students will gain hands on experience of 2D and 3D compositing techniques, animation, titles, graphic overlays, masking and colour correction by completing a bluescreen project.
Course topics include:
- Importing footage into Final Cut Pro, then into After Effects
- Create and adjust layers
- Editing keyframes
- Applying knowledge to video: Colour correction, Masking, and Animating Effects
- Shooting and preparing footage for bluescreen
PROJECT: Recreating the iPod commercial
Cost: €420 member / €450 non-member
Dates: TBC
Adobe After Effects - Level 2
3 Days
In this three-day course, students will gain hands on experience of advanced 3D compositing techniques through the creation of a digital cutout animation. Other topics in this course include motion tracking and stabilizing, linking and expressions as well as learning about alternative uses of After Effects.
Course topics include:
- 3D in After Effects
- Creating a journey through a city in 3D
- Creating a character for digitial cut-out animation
- Using Lights: Negative Lighting, Target Lights, Dynamic Lighting
- After Effects as a special effects tool
- Camera Tricks
- Expressions and their importance
Cost: €420 member / €450 non-member
Dates: Subject to demand
To register your interest in this course, email alessandro@filmbase.ie
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
Adobe Photoshop - Level 1
1 Weekend (also evening course, see below)
Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard software for editing digital images, used throughout the print, internet and multimedia industries. This course will benefit anyone needing a good grounding from which to develop highly effective Photoshop skills. The course content will introduce participants to the basics of selecting and modifying images, creating and manipulating layers, editing and exporting files, and learning techniques for creating original artwork.
Upon completion of this Photoshop training course, participants will be able to use Photoshop to:
- Retouch and balance digital photographs
- Produce multi-layered creative compositions
- Apply shapes, text and effects to artwork
- Optimise and output files for both web and print
Course material and files are provided.
Cost: €275 member / €300 non-member
Dates: 13 & 14 Mar
Adobe Photoshop - Level 1
6 Tuesday & Thursday Evenings
(also weekend course, see above)
Cost: €300 member / €325 non-member
Dates: Subject to demand
Adobe Photoshop - Level 2
1 Weekend
Suited for those who already have a basic understanding of the program. The Intermediate Photoshop Course builds upon the techniques already explored to provide solutions for more challenging Image Editing tasks. The course will examine Photoshop tools, shortcuts and techniques, which will maximise productivity and expand creative possibilities.
Upon completion of this Photoshop training course, participants will be able use Photoshop to:
- Understand Colour Management
- Use Advanced Layer Effects and Blending
- Explore Advanced Painting, Retouching and Editing Techniques
- Utilise Channels
- Incorporate Paths and Vector objects
- Effectively use the new features in CS2 and CS3
Course material and files are provided.
Cost: €275 member / €300 non-member
Dates: 10 & 11 Apr
ADOBE FLASH
Adobe Flash - Level 1
Interactive Media Design with Flash CS3
1 Weekend (also evening course, see below)
Flash is acknowledged to be the industry leading standard for online delivery of vector graphics, animation, multimedia and interactive content. Flash addresses the needs not only of designers who want to create artwork and animation, but also developers who want to create robust multimedia applications for the internet and CD-ROM and mobile devices.
This two-day, hands-on course is an introduction to the primary features and interface of working with Flash and is suitable for beginners.
Course topics include:
- Drawing in Flash
- Creating and manipulating timelines
- Basic animation techniques
- Tweened animation
- Colour effects including opacity etc.
- Publishing
- Basic timeline navigation
- Overview of advanced features (importing video, audio and other media, action scripting, integrating flash into standard web pages)
Cost: €275 member / €300 non-member
Dates: 23 & 24 Jan
Adobe Flash - Level 1
Interactive Media Design with Flash CS3
6 Tuesday & Thursday Evenings
(also weekend course, see above)
Cost: €300 member / €325 non-members
Dates: Subject to demand
ADOBE DREAMWEAVER
Adobe Dreamweaver - Level 1
Fundamentals of web design with Dreamweaver CS3
1 Weekend
This course is specifically designed for filmmakers and artists who wish to create and maintain their own web content.
This two-day, hands-on course provides a comprehensive introduction to web development using Dreamweaver, the industry leading standard package. The course will also show participants how to integrate Flash elements into standard web pages for rich media effect.
Course topics include:
- Introduction to the principles of good web design
- Overview of HTML
- Creating web pages
- Creating web and email links
- Working with graphics in Dreamweaver
- Image optimisation for the web
- Page Layout/Design
- Working with layers
- JavaScript Behaviours
Cost: €275 member / €300 non-member
Dates: 6 & 7 Mar
Adobe Dreamweaver - Level 2
1 Weekend
Take your Dreamweaver skills to the next level with CSS layouts and content styling, video encoding, Spry (Ajax) Effects and Navigation, Forms, Templates, Snippets and Library items.
Course topics include:
- HTML Review and CSS Review
- CSS Layout: Build your page layouts using Cascading Style Sheets
- CSS Content Styling: Style your page content using Cascading Style Sheets
- Information Architecture and Navigation
- CSS Navigation Bars: Build Nav Bars by styling unordered lists
- Snippets Panel
- Javascript Beaviors
- Forms (PHP)
- Video in Dreamweaver (including .flv encoding)
- SPRY overview: (Spry is Dreamweaver's implementation of AJAX)
- Spry Navigation Bars (flyout and dropdown)
- Spry Widgets: Spry effects such as fade, grow etc.
- Hacks and fixes for Internet Explorer
Cost: €275 member / €300 non-member
Dates: Subject to demand
To register your interest in this course, email alessandro@filmbase.ie
ADOBE INDESIGN
Introduction to Adobe InDesign
6 Tuesday & Thursday Evenings
Adobe InDesign is the industry standard page layout and design application. This course will take place over six evenings and will cover the basic skills needed to plan and produce a variety of professional pages with InDesign.
Topics in this course include learning the InDesign layout, basic design techniques, working with text, graphics and layers, utilizing colours, swatches and gradients to create simple vector based graphics, as well as exporting Acrobat PDF files for printing.
Cost: €300 member / €325 non-member
Dates: Subject to demand
To register your interest in this course, email alessandro@filmbase.ie
ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
Introduction to Adobe Illustrator
6 Tuesday & Thursday Evenings
Adobe Illustrator is the industry leading software for the creation of logos, graphic illustrations and technical drawings for print and screen. This course will introduce beginners to the basics of Illustrator with respect to object based illustration, logo creation, and typographic manipulation. Participants will learn how to go about creating polished, professional looking logos, stylised illustrations and technical drawings.
Participants will learn how to:
- Manipulate and combine objects to create original logotypes
- Trace from photographs using the pen tool to illustrative effect
- Modify text for creative branding solutions
- Apply effects to create complex stylistic designs
Cost: €300 member / €325 non-member
Dates: Subject to demand
Times: 7 - 10pm
Payment/Booking:
VISA, MasterCard, Laser, company or personal cheque, cash (all in Euros) are all acceptable terms of payment.
To book a place on any of these courses please contact Filmbase reception in person or call on 01 679 6716.
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