VIVO offers basic training in video production, editing, sound design, electronics and multi-media techniques, in a creative, supportive, artist-friendly environment. Most workshops are designed for hands-on, project-based learning. We keep our classes small in order to give all students enough attention. Our instructors are experienced and knowledgeable, and most of them are artists.
How to Register
Please call us at 604.872.8337/ext.1 or email education@vivomediaarts.com. All workshops should be registered and paid for at least one week in advance. Workshops may be canceled if not enough people register one week prior.
Note: As of Sept 2010, you cannot sign up for workshops without paying. We accept cash, cheques, debit cards and all credit cards. Credit card payments can be done over the phone: 604-872-8337/ext.1
CAMERA, LIGHTS & SOUND
2 sessions x 7 hours Sat/Sun September 25 & 26, 11 AM - 6 PM Sat/Sun October 30 & 31, 11 AM - 6 PM Sat/Sun December 4 & 5, 11 AM - 6 PM
Cost: $260 or $210 with Producer Membership
Instructors: Dinka Pignon and Asa Mori
To sign up email us at education@vivomediaarts.com or call 604.872.8337
This two-day workshop introduces students to the Sony PD-150 and the PD-170 digital camera packages. We will covers technical aspects of camera operation, sound recording, and basic lighting principles.
FINAL CUT PRO - INTRO 2 sessions x 4 hours Tue/Thu September 14 & 16, 6-10 PM Tue/Thu October 12 & 14, 6-10 PM Tue/Thu November 9 & 11, 6-10 PM Tue/Thu December 7 & 9, 6-10 PM
Cost: $200 or $160 with Producer Membership
Instructor: Mark Curry
To sign up email us at education@vivomediaarts.com or call 604.872.8337
This workshop provides an overview of Final Cut Pro 6 from capturing video to printing to tape. It covers all the basics including starting and organizing a project,
log and capture (DV), basic editing, trim editing, introduction to transitions and filters, titling, audio tools, and exporting to tape.
Prerequisite: Basic Mac literacy
FINAL CUT PRO - INTERMEDIATE: EDITING
1 sessions x 4 hours Tue September 21, 6-10 PM Tue October 19, 6-10 PM Tue November 16, 6-10 PM Tue December 14, 6-10 PM
Cost: $125 or $100 with Producer Membership
Instructor: Mark Curry
To sign up email us at education@vivomediaarts.com or call 604.872.8337
This course starts where the Beginner Final Cut Pro workshop ends, offering a more in-depth understanding of what is possible with the program. The course covers: capturing HDV and working with HDV formats; troubleshooting timecode capture issues; match frame edits; replace and fit to fill edits; trim edit window; nesting; importing and working with Photoshop layers; importing from audio CD; cutting to the beat and markers; keyboard shortcuts and the toolbar; workflow options; introduction to exporting to various QuickTime formats; introduction to exporting to web and DVD formats (H.264 and MPEG2) via Compressor; and media management.
Prerequisite: Basic competency with Final Cut Pro including capturing, timeline editing, and basic effects and transitions.
Prerequisite: Basic competency with Final Cut Pro including capturing, timeline editing, and basic effects and transitions.
FINAL CUT PRO - INTERMEDIATE: EFFECTS
1 sessions x 4 hours Tue September 28, 6-10 PM Tue October 26, 6-10 P Tue November 23, 6-10 PM Tue December 16, 6-10 PM
Cost: $125 or $100 with Producer Membership
Instructor: Mark Curry
To sign up email us at education@vivomediaarts.com or call 604.872.8337
This course starts where the Beginner Final Cut Pro workshop ends, offering a more in-depth understanding of what is possible with the program. The course covers: color correction, mattes, alpha channels & compositing; keying; cropping, sizing, motion graphics (motion paths) and keyframing; audio transitions, audio filters and fixing audio problems.
Prerequisite: Basic competency with Final Cut Pro including capturing, timeline editing, and basic effects and transitions.
AFTER EFFECTS 3 session x 3 hours Mon/Wed/Fri September 20, 22 & 24, 6:30 - 9:30 PM Mon/Wed/Fri October 25, 27 & 29, 6:30 - 9:30 PM Mon/Wed/Fri November 22, 24 & 26, 6:30 - 9:30 PM
Cost: $200 or $160 with Producer Membership
Instructor: Majid Bagheri
To sign up email us at education@vivomediaarts.com or call 604.872.8337
This workshop provides a fundamental understanding of post-production workflow in Adobe After Effects. It covers a range of subjects including compositing in 2d and 3d, working with video and graphics, titling, visual effects, keying, and animation. Lab handouts and exercise files will be provided.
Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of digital video and editing software (e.g. iMovie, Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Avid).
VJ: PERFORMANCE VIDEO 1 session x 7 hours Sun October 10, 11 AM - 6 PM Sun November 14, 11 AM - 6 PM
Cost: $150 or $120 with Producer Membership
Instructor: Julie Gendron
To sign up email us at education@vivomediaarts.com or call 604.872.8337
This workshop is being offered to video artists who would like to learn how to mix (edit) video live in order to work with musicians and/or sound artists in a performative setting. The course covers equipment set-up, editing video to create loops, and using hardware and software to mix different material sources and formats. A variety of scenarios are demonstrated and time for practice and experimentation is integrated into theory and history of video performance and manipulation.
Part 1: Equipment set-up (i.e. multiple display, live feed, creating feedback, connecting multiple sources), vj theory, hardware based mixing, sourcing materials and working with long form sources.
Part 2: Software mixing using Modul8, mixing with sound, vj theory involving digital and generative sources, working with short-form loops and how to make a gapless loop.
VIDEO PROJECT WORKSHOP 4 session x 3 hours Tue September 21 & 28 + October 5 & 12 , 7-10 PM
Cost: $220 or $180 with Producer Membership
Instructor: Flick Harrison
To sign up email us at education@vivomediaarts.com or call 604.872.8337
Bring Your Own Project for a push in the right direction! Whether you are a senior artist or just starting out, this supportive, challenging and creative workshop will help you focus your ideas or works-in-progress and take them from one step to the next. Bring jumbled notes, rough sketches, video clips in quicktime format, technical questions, aesthetic dilemmas, rough edits on DVD or FCP project files, pie-in-the-sky – everything is possible! Be prepared to react honestly to other people's work, and hear honest feedback on your own.
Workshop leader Flick Harrison has taught media arts for 10 years and made video for even longer.
VIDEO JOURNALISM BASICS - Part 1: Basic Doc Production Gear and Craft 1 session x 4 hours Sat October 2, 1-5 PM
Cost: $100 or $80 with Producer Membership
Package cost for Part 1 + Part 2: $250 or $200 with Producer Membership
Instructor: Flick Harrison
To sign up email us at education@vivomediaarts.com or call 604.872.8337
Note: For the person with enough tech skills to bring home good sound and picture (or planning to work with skilled technicians), take only workshop Part 2: Pro J-Skills. Package price for both Part 1 + Part 2 is $250 or $200 with Producer Membership.
Make docs that ring true and bring the best low-budget production values.
For the aspiring journalist with less production experience in video, this session will explore basic production skills for documentary: camera tech, sound capture, lighting kits, etc.
Workshop leader Flick Harrison was one of Canada's first television videographers and has degrees in film production and journalism.
VIDEO JOURNALISM BASICS - Part 2: Pro J-Skills 2 session x 5 hours Sun October 3 & 10, 12-5 PM
Cost: $200 or $160 with Producer Membership
Package cost for Part 1 + Part 2: $250 or $200 with Producer Membership
Instructor: Flick Harrison
To sign up email us at education@vivomediaarts.com or call 604.872.8337
Note: For the person with enough tech skills to bring home good sound and picture (or planning to work with skilled technicians), it is not necessary to take workshop Part 1: Basic Doc Production Gear and Craft. Package price for both Part 1 + Part 2 is $250 or $200 with Producer Membership.
Make docs that ring true and bring the best low-budget production values.
Learn on-camera reporting, off-camera interview skills, documentary shooting techniques and polished journalistic writing. Participants will come up with a documentary concept (or bring one you have in mind) and shoot footage that will be analyzed and edited the following week.
Bring your own camera, or plan to borrow or rent one for between-class shooting assignments.
Workshop leader Flick Harrison was one of Canada's first television videographers and has degrees in film production and journalism.
INTRO TO SOUND 1 session x 4 hours Discontinued, to return in 2011
Cost: $100 or $80 with Producer Membership
Instructor: Carey Dodge
To sign up email us at education@vivomediaarts.com or call 604.872.8337
Description: Audio Hardware for sound artists: Let's get busy. What's an XLR cable? What's a frequency response curve? $10 000 for a microphone! WTF!!!
Together we'll try and make sense of a pile of speakers, amps, mics, cables, circuits, boxes with holes, and other gadgetry we can use to play with sound. The physical stuff of sound production will be the focus of this workshop. Do I need/want to purchase/rent a fancy speaker or can I get away with a cheap disassembled computer speaker? Why use a dynamic mic as opposed to a condenser mic? These questions and more will be discussed and applied. Learn how to make good decisions about hardware for Sound Art.
ABLETON LIVE - INTRO 2 sessions x 3 hours
Mon/Tue October 4 & 5, 6-9 PM Mon/Tue November 15 & 16, 6-9 PM
Cost: $150 or $120 with Producer Membership
Instructor: Ross Birdwise
To sign up email us at education@vivomediaarts.com or call 604.872.8337
This is a two-part introductory workshop to the Ableton Live audio software with special emphasis on its uses for sound art and experimental music. Ableton Live is a non-linear realtime audio sequencing and manipulation software (www.ableton.com). In the first part, we will go over all the main functions of Ableton Live: playing and manipulating clips, midi functions, effects and Ableton Live's powerful realtime functions. In the second part, we will explore various ways to interface with Ableton Live as well as its more experimental uses, such as for installations, connecting with other software (i.e. PD, Max/MSP, other).
Prerequisites: An interest in sound or art or both. A basic knowledge of recording and editing digital audio would be beneficial.
What you need to bring: Ideally participants should bring their laptops with Ableton Live installed. There is a free demo version available for download on their website: www.ableton.com. For the second part, bring any interfaces you may have (i.e. Midi keyboard, drum machine with usb or midi connection, home-made contraption with some form of midi connection, joystick, other)
ABLETON LIVE - INTERMEDIATE 2 sessions x 3 hours
Mon/Tue October 18 & 19, 6-9 PM Mon/Tue November 29 & 30, 6-9 PM
Cost: $150 or $120 with Producer Membership
Instructor: Ross Birdwise
To sign up email us at education@vivomediaarts.com or call 604.872.8337
For this two-part workshop we will venture into the meat of Ableton Live. We will integrate the basic concepts introduced in the previous Ableton Live workshop and create more complex Ableton Live Sets. We will also explore the performative aspects of Live. It is strongly recommended that participants come with Ableton Live Sets that they are currently working on.
The first session will present a more complicated Ableton Live Set and introduce performance techniques. The second session will focus on participants' projects and/or specialized aspects of Ableton Live such as 'Max for Live'.
Prerequisites: Intro to Ableton Live workshop or basic knowledge of Ableton Live.
What you need to bring: Ideally participants should bring their laptops with Ableton Live installed. There is a free demo version available for download on their website: www.ableton.com.
In this workshop we will learn how to generate and manipulate sound using graphical programming language Plogue Bidule. It is similar to Max/Msp but cheaper and easier to learn. It allows you to visually patch together "objects" in a virtual sound studio and use the resulting patches for music/sound composition or live performance.
The workshop will cover the basics of working with Bidule, including patching, routing, mixing, tone generators and sample players, different kinds of inputs and outputs (audio, MIDI, spectral), making your own objects, and using VST and AU plugins in Bidule. The workshop will be part lecture, part lab with practical examples. Those who bring their Mac or Windows laptop will receive a special demo version of Bidule. Previous sound experience is an asset but not required.
LIGHTROOM
1 session x 4 hours Sat September 18, 1-5 PM Sat October 16, 1-5 PM
Cost: $100 or $80 with Producer Membership
Instructor: Majid Bagheri
To sign up email us at education@vivomediaarts.com or call 604.872.8337
Adobe Lightroom supports a very easy and intuitive workflow compared to Photoshop. It also contains unique tools for image management and organization which come very useful while dealing with a large number of pictures. This intensive workshop provides an in-depth understanding of Lightroom. It covers all modules and tools available in the program including catalogues and collections, rating and filtering, non-destructive editing, working with camera raw files, and exporting for print and web (flash).
Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of digital photography. Students are encouraged to bring their own pictures to develop.
DVD AUTHORING
Custom workshop, one-on-one.
Cost: $40 per hour
Instructor: Mark Curry
Please call 604.872.8337 or email education@vivomediaarts.com to schedule
This workshop provides an overview of Apple's DVD Studio Pro from exporting from Final Cut Pro to burning DVD's. The course includes creating optimal quality video and audio (for standard-definition DVD), using Apple's Compressor, creating interactive still menus using Photoshop, creating interactive moving (motion) menus, creating slide shows, chapter markers, testing and burning.
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY Custom workshop, one-on-one.
Cost: $40 per hour
Instructor: Byron Dauncey
Please call 604.872.8337 or email education@vivomediaarts.com to schedule
The irony of digital photography is that it is now so easy and convenient to take good pictures, yet people are too overwhelmed by these advances to take advantage of them. In this workshop participants will learn how to manipulate ISO settings (sensitivity of "film"), when to use spot metering or regular metering, how to use aparture priority and shutter priority, how to set white balance, and how to do post processing. The workshop will be hands-on, with an extensive question and answer session.
The intention of this workshop is to introduce artists to the creative possibilities of Flash. In Flash, one can create animated movies from scratch, or import graphics, photos, video, and audio created with other programs and use Flash to animate them. The participants will learn about Flash painting and drawing tools (and how they differ from other programs), creating symbols (the three types, and their characteristics), interactivity (including an intro to Actionscript, Flash's programming language), publishing for web, and more.
Many filmmakers and video artists put a lot of effort in creating work that only gets seen by a few. After one or two screenings the films get shelved never to be seen in public again. Enter the age of web video where low budget films have the potential to be seen by thousands if not millions.
But what happens when my film is out there? If I put my film on YouTube do I still own it? Can I generate income from my creations? How can I protect my creations?
In this workshop we will examine the "Terms of Use" agreements of popular sites such as YouTube, and I-Film, sites that profit share with creators such as Revver and MetaCafe, sites that offer free hosting of high quality video like Archive.org and OurMedia.org, and new technologies like video podcasts and internet tv.
HTML & WEB DESIGN Custom workshop, one-on-one.
Cost: $40 per hour
Instructor: Julie Gendron
Please call 604.872.8337 or email education@vivomediaarts.com to schedule
Learn the basics of interactive design, html and css to promote yourself and your work. You will be taught the structure of web design, domain purchasing and hosting, and bring in your own designs to receive individual instructions on what works and what doesn't. Understanding of Photoshop or a similar graphics program is required for this course.
A base knowledge of electronics gives the artist the opportunity to introduce electronic circuitry into a variety of media including sculpture, sound, and light-based works. This course will cover some basic theory of electronic principals that is essential for beginning to work with this medium. From there we will look at some of the components that make up simple circuits and that create the building blocks for more complex circuits. Students will learn some of the basic skills needed for electronic work such as soldering, breadboarding, and reading a schematic. These skills will be used to build a simple audio amplifier. We will experiment with different inputs such as contact microphones and how to modify the sound output from the speaker.
The cost of materials that you take home with you ($10-15) is included in the workshop fee.
CIRCUIT BENDING 2 sessions x 3.5 hours Mon/Wed September 27 & 29, 6-9:30 PM Mon/Wed October 25 & 27, 6-9:30 PM Mon/Tue November 29 & 30, 6-9:30 PM
Circuit bending enables artists to work with complex circuitry without any prior knowledge of electronics in order to create works spanning a variety of artistic media. By adding new variables we can transform and customize circuits that would be too complex for most of us to build from the ground up. We will cover all aspects to get you started with circuit bending, from prying open your first case to putting the knobs on a completed project. Bring 1 or 2 circuits to bend and any parts or modifying elements that you would like to use (we will have some modifiers on hand). Here are some ideas for circuit bending starting points: keyboards, radios, answering machines, portable televisions and tape decks. Don't let that limit you though. It's going to be exciting.
The cost of materials that you take home with you ($10-15) is included in the workshop fee.
KINETIC MEDIA & ELECTRONICS 2 sessions x 3.5 hours Mon/Wed October 11 & 13, 6-9:30 PM Mon/Wed November 8 & 10, 6-9:30 PM
Cost: $150 or $120 with Producer Membership
Instructor: Rob Symmers
To sign up email us at education@vivomediaarts.com or call 604.872.8337
A course to “make your art move”, intended for those interested in kinetic sculpture, robotics and sensor technology. You will learn how to use electric motors with microcontrollers and how to build your own creative circuitry with components such as switches, resistors, LEDs, photo transistors, relays, hall effect sensors, timing circuits, transistors, and their types.
This is a hands-on workshop, focused on participants’ individual projects. Students are
encouraged to have a project in mind or bring one to work with. Students without anything specific will be given a small electronic project by the
instructor on the second day.
SLAB
The SLAB is a Studio LAB for electronic media artists, technology enthusiasts and people who like to tinker. SLAB offers workshops and facilitates collaborative projects, providing artists with peer support, mentorship and technical assistance. The projects conclude in public exhibitions and events (e.g. Votes for Sleepwalkers).
