SHORT COURSES
Lighting For Film And Video – Two-day course
This hands-on introductory course on film and video lighting includes:
- Basic lighting skills and terms including personnel, lantern types and accessories
- Plotting and rigging
- Production lighting techniques
- Lighting for blue/green-screen keying
- An understanding of lighting for multi-camera situations
- In front of camera and in-camera special effects
There are 6 places available on each course.
Please note: this course does not cover automated lighting and DMX systems
Course Dates:
Monday 11th & Tuesday 12th August 2008
Monday 8th & Tuesday 9th September 2008
Monday 13th & Tuesday 14th October 2008
Monday 10th & Tuesday 11th November 2008
Monday 8th & Tuesday 9th December 2008
Times: 10am – 6pm
Cost: £350
Digital Editing Using Final Cut Pro HD – Three-day course
The course will cover capturing footage, basic editing, adding transitions and effects, compositing, adding text and graphics, speed manipulation and audio editing, and will particularly emphasise the artistically valid editorial decisions of post production by using material generated by the students themselves. All courses are run using Apple Macintosh computers and are designed to meet the needs of beginners and more advanced users alike. A copy of ‘Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro HD’ by Diana Weyn will be given to all participants. There are 4 places available on each course.
Course Dates:
Monday 23rd – Wednesday 25th June 2008
Monday 18th – Wednesday 20th August 2008
Monday 22nd – Wednesday 24th September 2008
Monday 20th – Wednesday 22nd October 2008
Monday 24th – Wednesday 26th November 2008
Monday 15th – Wednesday 17th December 2008
Times: 10am – 6pm
Cost: £425
Advanced Compositing (Using Shake) – Three-day course
An introductory course on high-end compositing using the application ‘Shake’. This course is specifically aimed at first-time users who, although familiar with non-linear editing systems such as Final Cut Pro, wish to learn more about advanced compositing. The course covers:
- An overview of the User Interface
- The principles of nodal-based systems and layers including: colour correcting, keying, rotoscoping, plate-cleaning, tracking, stabilising, painting and warping
- Digital formats and proxies
A copy of the Apple Pro Training book ‘Shake 4’’ by Marco Paolini will be given to participants. There are four places available on each course.
Please note: this course is not aimed at compositors already familiar with equivalent workflows such as Nuke, Inferno etc. and does not cover Z-depth compositing.
Course Dates: This course will run on a monthly basis by arrangement; please get in touch for further information.
Cost: £500
Feedback from past participants:
‘Having never worked with digital editing software before I found the course an excellent introduction initially and it left me with a lot of techniques to make my work look professional etc. I thought the emphasis on creating one’s own work was perfectly balanced with more conventional show and repeat exercises. The organisation was smooth and totally unproblematic, the venue was inspiring and comfortable.’
‘The way it was taught was really easy to follow and went at a steady pace. I thought the tasks after each explanation were really useful.’
Who will run the courses: Robin Thorburn is an experienced lighting designer, cameraman and editor for over 25 years with credits as diverse as "TFI Friday" "Bremner, Bird & Fortune" and "Newsnight". He has been nominated twice for a BAFTA and won a Golden Rose of Montreux. He has had long experience in lighting and photography and digital and film post-production for Forkbeard shows.
Venue: Forkbeard’s creative base in Devon is fully equipped to accommodate people with disabilities.
Booking: For further information and application forms, please contact
Deborah Harrison
Administrator
Forkbeard Fantasy
PO Box 1241
Bristol BS99 2TG
Email: ff@forkbeardfantasy.co.uk
Tel: 0117 930 9933
Fax: 0117 930 9922
