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Putting together a good documentary (and getting it seen) is like
completing a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle the size of a basketball
court…and all the pieces are blue. This three-hour workshop, taught by award-winning documentary producer Abigail Wright, will cover
the basics of this demanding and underpaid art form, from the personal
to the practical.
Topics which will be addressed include: what defines
a “documentary,” finding a story, research, and finding your own voice
who does what and who pays for it preparing to shoot, interviews, and
B-roll working with others, organizing the mess logs, outlines, scripts
licensing music and footage new technologies to pay attention to and
funders, markets, and film festivals.
This class is a unique opportunity to learn from an expert, so you can avoid the pitfalls and mistakes common to documentary filmmaking!
Related Link: https://www.boulderdigitalarts.com/training/details.asp?offering=98
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This workshop on December 11 is designed for the video shooter who wants to increase
their skill level, make the images they're shooting look better, and
make the editing process smoother. We will set up and discuss lighting
- and audio - for shooting professional video in a variety of situations, including interior and
exterior scenarios, as well as good pre-production
techniques. We will also discuss a variety of field production tips and
tricks so your work looks and sounds more professional
This
three-hour workshop is specifically geared toward the independent
filmmaker! Topics will include composition, exposure,
color balance, interview lighting, microphone placement, on-location
lighting, using reflectors, and much more. This workshop is a great way to improve your
skills as a beginning and intermediate shooter!
Through hands-on
demonstrations, this fast-moving workshop will also take a hard look at
exactly what gear and production equipment today's independent
filmmaker needs to get the job done. The workshop will cover a lot of
ground in the hopes of giving independent filmmakers, and aspiring
filmmakers, plenty of information regarding using, renting, and
purchasing digital video equipment, including camera choices, renting
vs. buying, on-location lighting options for indoor and
outdoor shooting, microphone choices, common accessories needed, and
much more.
Please note that this is not a "beginning lighting" workshop, though beginners will gain lots of valuable information!
Bruce Borowsky, the instructor of the course, has worked as a producer at People Productions in
Boulder, Colorado for over eight years. He has worked on a wide variety
of projects for both corporate and commercial clientele, not only as
producer and director, but frequently also as cameraman and lighting
director. Bruce has been a professional videographer since
1988. Prior to joining People Productions, Bruce produced the national
television series "The Climbing Show." Bruce's award-winning 2003
documentary, "18 days, 16 hours," illustrates his vast experience
shooting in unlikely places, whether racing on a sailboat in the middle
of the Atlantic ocean, or hanging off a rock ledge in Yosemite.
Related Link: www.boulderdigitalarts.com/training/details.asp?offering=119
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This exciting workshop will teach you best practices when shooting greenscreen. The three-hour workshop on Monday November 24 will be split into two parts - the instructor
will actually be demonstrating these techniques live, not just talking about them! The first half of the evening will cover shooting and
lighting techniques when shooting HDV with a greenscreen background.
The second half of the evening will cover using and keying the
greenscreen in Final Cut Pro. You'll get to see how a proper
greenscreen shot is set up, lit, and videotaped as well as how it is
then imported into FCP, and then inserting a new background!
Related Link: http://www.boulderdigitalarts.com/training/details.asp?offering=151
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Join us for a new workshop that explores how to improve one's
work. To advance your art takes understanding and application of essential
principles of graphic design. In this three hour class, photographer
and designer Nathaniel Coalson will teach you how to compose still or
moving images that grab your audience and don't let go. You will learn what make strong images strong and weak ones weak. How
geometry and color affect the viewer's thought process and determine
their response. How proportion and dominance make or break an image.
And, yes, you will get a thorough refresher on the fundamentals of
composition.
For more complete details, please click here!
Related Link: http://www.boulderdigitalarts.com/training/details.asp?offering=214
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Social Media is a quickly-emerging form of online media that is
becoming just as important as advertising and public relations, if not
more so, for some niches and organizations. Social media is now
also a very critical component of SEO and web marketing campaigns.
Social media is also one of the last legitimate ways your business
website can get a massive amount of traffic and links without spending
a lot of money. Web marketers who use social media skillfully have a
massive competitive advantage over those who don't. Don't be left
in the dark! If you've been hearing a lot about social media (sites
like Wikipedia, Twitter, Digg or Facebook), and you want to understand
more about it before diving in deeper, this class is a perfect
introduction. It will cover the basics of social media from business /
marketing perspective - and it will leave you inspired and confident in
how to better use social media to promote your own brand or
organization.
Click the link below for a detailed list of what this exciting three-hour workshop will cover!
Related Link: http://www.boulderdigitalarts.com/training/details.asp?offering=207
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This 3-hour workshop will shed light on Garageband's interface and reveal it's
powerful editing tools so that you can manipulate sound, create music and much
more!
Half of your movie is sound, so why make it an after
thought? This workshop will show you how to polish your movie's score
to perfection. In the first hour we'll import a video and build a
soundtrack for it with the objective of burning it to DVD. Along the
way you'll learn how to add sound effects, voice overs, edit background
music, use loops, and make DVD Chapter Markers.
Also, learn how
to create a pod for the web and even enhance it with artwork. The
real focus of this portion is to go over voice enhancements and editing.
Then finally, we'll compose music. Here are the key points we’ll be discussing:
- Using Instruments with your Mac
- Using Software Instruments
- Multitake Recording
- Arrangement and mixing your song
- Key & Tempo
- Automating Effects
- Creating your own Loops
- Exporting to iTunes
Related Link: http://www.boulderdigitalarts.com/training/details.asp?offering=209
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BDA presents an exciting workshop on Adventure Filmmaking, taught by award-winning director & cameraman Michael Brown, owner of Serac Adventure Films! You'll learn how Michael and his crew are able to bring cameras to the top of Mount Everest, down wild rivers, and into humid jungles. Lots will be covered in this one-night workshop from 6pm to 9pm on October 20 this is a great opportunity to learn from one of the best adventure-cameramen in the business. Please check out the class listing for complete details.
The instructor, celebrated director Michael Brown, is a pioneer of adventure filmmaking
and has received over forty international film festival and industry
awards, including three national Emmys from five nominations. He
founded Serac Adventure Films in 1992.
Michael's tenacity and upbeat attitude has brought him
to the summit of Mount Everest four times from two different
routes—once while shooting and directing Farther Than the Eye Can See
about blind climber Erik Weihenmayer’s historic ascent. The acclaimed
film marked the first time a high-definition (HD) video camera was
brought to the mountain’s peak. His most recent summit in 2007 was to
co-direct MacGillivray Freeman Films' Return to Everest in 3D IMAX.
Outside the Himalaya, his experience ranges from making
first kayak descents of wild rivers in places like Bhutan and Chile to
bagging remote summits on all seven continents.
But for Michael, making films is about more than winning
awards and exploring uncharted territories. He is committed to “giving
back” to the people of the world. Whether documenting free
life-changing surgeries in Nepal, disabled athletes in Italy, or blind
children in Tibet, his films always include moving human stories that
highlight personal accomplishment.
Michael also lends his production and adventuring skills
to filmmakers like MacGillivray Freeman Films, for whom he acted as the
mountain unit Director of Photography on the soon to be released IMAX
film "Alps: Giants of Nature." He was also a specialty cameraman on the
critically acclaimed show "BlindSight," A& E’s "Touch the Top," and
on a number of feature films.
Though Michael has always loved telling stories (he grew
up in family of adventure filmmakers), his real passion is earth
science, with emphasis on weather foreing and climate. He studied
weather, climate, and geography at the University of Colorado in
Boulder while working at the National Snow and Ice Data Center and has
put that knowledge to use in productions for National Geographic
Television, NBC, CBS, ABC, ESPN, OLN the BBC, Rush HD, and the
Discovery Channel.
Related Link: http://www.boulderdigitalarts.com/training/details.asp?offering=192
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The Shoot Out 24 Hour Filmmaking Festival challenges
you to make a short film in 24 hours! The festival kicks off Friday night
at 6 PM in front of the Boulder County Courthouse on the Pearl Street
Mall. Over $6500 in prizes to be awarded this year! For more
information, visit http://www.theshootoutboulder.com
Related Link: http://www.theshootoutboulder.com
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Welcome to the 2nd annual Spirit of the Outdoors Film Festival, sponsored by REI and Boulder Digital Arts! Our objective for this exciting film festival is to encourage everyone and anyone to share their story, to tell us why they love the outdoors and the environment. Kids, teenagers, young adults, seniors everyone! And the best part: the entry fee is FREE!
The Spirit of the Outdoors Film Festival provides an outlet for all creative, talented, budding filmmakers. Even if you didn’t know you wanted to make films, especially if you didn’t know you wanted to make films, you now have the opportunity to do so and we’ll help you! Boulder Digital Arts provides the education necessary to help you produce your first (or one of many) films worthy of showing outside your home! If you’re looking for some help, Boulder Digital Arts (BDA) is teaching several short workshops to give you the tips and tricks necessary to create your own award-winning videos, providing instruction on shooting, editing, lighting, filming in extreme environments, and much more!(We'll have those classes listed here soon - be sure to get on our free email list!)
The Spirit of the Outdoors Film Festival wants to hear from you - We want to know what inspires you! Everyone is invited to participate in this fun and exciting way to learn to make videos about where you spend most of your time - outdoors!
REI is sponsoring this event to promote, encourage, and reward people with a zest for the outdoors. Are you environmentally conscious? Green-minded? Active? Energetic? Determined to make a difference in the world? Or just enjoying the living daylights out of it? Then, this festival is right up your alley! Be sure to get on our free email list to be notified when submissions are due. They'll be some fabulous prizes - and the cost to enter your video is FREE!
Related Link: http://www.boulderdigitalarts.com/events/details.asp?offering=213
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In this all-day, hands-on class, you'll learn the basics and beyond from a professional
designer and illustrator who has been using Photoshop since it's
introduction in 1986. Go beyond basic image adjustment and correction
to actual illustrative art and power-user techniques to add creative
value to your digital imaging products and services.
In our
6-hour class, we'll take a tour of the tools and palettes, and learn
about various image file formats and their uses in different media.
(There's an evolutionary hierarchy of image file formats, from
single-celled bit-maps to high-res intelligent, free-roaming vectors)
We'll learn the basics of how to craft the appropriate file formats for
all your various media requirements.
Image editing is only the
beginning. When you finish this course, you'll have all the skills you
need for competent color correcting and enhancing, retouching and
compositing.
Related Link: http://www.boulderdigitalarts.com/training/details.asp?offering=140
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