VIVO offers basic training in video production, editing, sound design and multi-media techniques in a creative, supportive, artist friendly environment. Workshops are designed for hands-on project-based learning with experienced artists and editors. Upon the completion of the workshops, VIVO members can rent our production equipment and edit suites.
How to Register
To register, please call us at 604.872.8337 or email education@vivomediaarts.com All workshops must be registered and paid for at least 3 days in advance.
HIGH DEFINITION CAMERA: JVC HD100U 1 session x 3 hours
Sun May 11, 1-4 PM Sun June 22, 1-4 PM
Cost: $30 or $25 with Producer Membership
This workshop will cover the basics of operating the JVC HD100U HDV camera. Designed for VIVO members who have completed
CLS workshop or have been granted camera access through other means. (Pre-req: Camera, Lights and Sound workshop).
CAMERA LIGHTS AND SOUND
2 sessions x 7 hours Sat/Sun June 7 & 8, 11 AM-6 PM
Cost: $245 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.
VIDEO EDITING with FINAL CUT PRO
2 sessions x 4 hours Tue/Thu May 13 & 15, 6-10 PM Tue/Thu June 24 & 26, 6-10 PM
Cost: $185 or $155 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 5.1 from logging and capturing to printing to tape. It covers all the basics including editing, transitions and filters, titling, audio tools, and media management.
INTRO TO AFTER EFFECTS 2 sessions x 3 hours Please call for dates: 604.872.8337
Cost: $150 or $130 with Producer Membership
Instructor: Julie Saragosa
To sign up email us at education@vivomediaarts.com or call 604.872.8337
This two-night workshop provides an introduction to Adobe After Effects. It will cover some basic instruction to the tools used in animating video and photoshop-layered files, including super-imposing, compositing, using mattes, transparencies, text, and various effects.
VJ: PERFORMANCE VIDEO 1 session x 7 hours Sun June 15, 11 AM-6 PM
Cost: $160 or $130 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.
AUDIO POST-PRODUCTION with PRO TOOLS 2 sessions x 4 hours Please call for dates: 604.872.8337
Cost: $185 or $155 with Producer Membership
Instructors: Emma Hendrix, Julie Saragosa
To sign up email us at education@vivomediaarts.com or call 604.872.8337
This two-day workshop provides an overview on post-production sound editing for video using Pro Tools 7.1 LE and DV Toolkit 2. It will cover the basics of audio and hearing, importing your edited sound from Final Cut Pro, cleaning up the audio that accompanies picture, recording voice-over, dialogue replacement, adding sound effects, track layout, doing a simple mix-down, and then re-importing back to Final Cut Pro.
DIGITAL SOUND: COMPOSITION & PERFORMANCE
1 session x 4 hours Please call for dates: 604.872.8337
Cost: $80 or $65 with Producer Membership
Instructor: Phil Thomson
To sign up email us at education@vivomediaarts.com or call 604.872.8337
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.
DVD AUTHORING WITH DVD STUDIO 4
1 session x 5 hours Sun June 1, 1-6 PM
Cost: $130 or $100 with Producer Membership
Instructor: Mark Curry
To sign up email us at education@vivomediaarts.com or call 604.872.8337
DVD SP 4 offers the ability to create a DVD for independent video distribution, presentation and installation. This course includes DVD authoring, encoding from current and historic sources, and interactive menus. Topics include quality encoding, the Compressor interface for Final Cut Pro and optimal output.
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY WITH CAMERAMAN
2 sessions x 3.5 hours Thu/Fri May 22 & 23, 6-9:30 PM Thu/Fri June 19 & 20, 6-9:30 PM
Cost: $75 or $60 with Producer Membership
Instructor: Byron Dauncey
To sign up email us at education@vivomediaarts.com or call 604.872.8337
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.
FLASH
2 sessions x 3.5 hours Tue/Wed May 20 & 21, 6-9:30 PM
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.
ONLINE VIDEO 1 session x 2 hours Thurs June 5, 6-8 PM
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 2 sessions x 4 hours Mondays May 26 & June 2, 6-10 PM
Cost: $185 or $155 with Producer Membership
Instructor: Julie Gendron
To sign up email us at education@vivomediaarts.com or call 604.872.8337
Learn the basics of interactive design, html and css to promote yourself and your work. The first class will teach the structure of web design, domain purchasing and hosting, preparing you for the second class where you bring in your own designs and receive individual instructions on what works and what doesn't. Understanding of Photoshop or a similar graphics program is required for this course.
SLAB ELECTRONIC MEDIA
SLAB ELECTRONIC MEDIA INTERACTIVE ART • REAL-TIME • SENSORS • ELECTRONICS
MAKING THINGS - THAT DO THINGS
The SLAB (Studio LAB) is the only open lab in Vancouver that offers workshops in visual multimedia programming, real-time
media manipuluation, circuit bending, physical computing, and all you need to know to get your art to move.
We’re not maxing, we’re relaxing with a free open source media tool called Pure-Data (PD). It is LEGO for digital media and you can do anything with it!
DISTRACT AN ARTIST! GET HELP WITH YOUR PROJECT!
Cost: $2 per Question / Hard Questions: $5
Saturday May 24, 1-5 PM
Come and interrupt our Artist in Residence / Slab Instructor at large - ask her questions, slow down her process and speed up
yours. Brady Marks will be tuning her machines of desire, with or without your hindrance. This is an opportunity for anyone exploring digital media or contemplating the SLAB to chat about it and get help with their projects. (Subsidized assistance through VIVO)
MAKE YOUR OWN SLAB
Combine workshop into your own package: take PD BASICS and any other Slab workshop(s) of your choice: Visual Media,
Sonic Media, or Media Integration & Interfacing.
For more information about SLAB workshops and the schedule, please go to SLAB Workshop Page.
BEGINNER ELECTRONICS & ROBOTICS
CIRCUIT BUILDING 2 sessions x 3 hours Tue/Wed May 6 & 7, 6-9 PM Tue/Wed June 3 & 4, 6-9 PM
A base knowledge of electronics gives the artist the opportunity to introduce electronic circuitry into a variety of mediums 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.
CIRCUIT BENDING 2 sessions x 3 hours Tue/Wed May 20 & 21, 6-9 PM Tue/Wed June 10 & 11, 6-9 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 mediums. 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.
KINETIC MEDIA & ELECTRONICS 2 sessions x 3.5 hours Mondays June 9 & 16, 6-9:30 pm
Cost: $160 or $130 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 but you don’t have to have a project to attend it.
