In this class, students will explore the world of art and technology through the lens of comic art. Students will learn tips and tricks for creating, drawing, and writing characters into a story. This class will provide many opportunities for beginning artists and artists looking to take their skills to a professional level! In these […]
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Future Readiness: What the Heck Does This Mean? In order to best prepare for the future you want to create for yourself, MAPS curates Future Readiness into our classes and workshops. Topics may include: Learning Objectives
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Students will explore the fundamental tool bar in Photoshop and its brushes. Using the provided images, students will explore how to mask out a background and clip an image in. Students will explore using different Photoshop brushes and opacity levels to create depth and texture on their scene. Students will explore and discuss the fundamentals
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Learn how to create songs from scratch! In this class, students will learn the basics of song creation and music production. Students will focus on writing, recording, producing, and releasing during the session. Learning these skills will allow students to create as they would in a professional music studio. In this 11 week class, students
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Students will learn to build and fly a variety of drones while learning the laws and regulations surrounding them. They will explore flight simulators, learn from advanced drone pilots, and fly drones with different styles of controllers ranging from traditional ones to using just their hand gestures to control the drones. Camera systems will be
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Learning about film and video production by creating. This class is designed to show students how to operate video cameras, audio equipment and all the tools of filmmaking to create. From conceptualization to production, we will learn how to use all the filmmaking tools and exercises to make a completed video. The students will have
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WORKSHOP SCHEDULE DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 DAY 4 DAY 5 MORNING Introductions Screening and Discussion“Our Last Refuge” Screening: TBD Screening: TBD Screening: TBD MORNING 1895-1896 Agreement Screening and Discussion“Our Last Refuge” “1895 Disagreement” Script Read Production Etiquette Create Best Practices for Analyzing Film MORNING “Who Are You” “The Making of Meaning” “Critical Discourse
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Learning collaborative music video production. Using a pre-recorded song, we’ll get the cameras out and learn basic camera recording techniques and compositions. And finally, we’ll film a music video based on the song, bring it back into the classroom and learn how to edit the footage using Adobe Premiere software. In this one week class,
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This 1-week course will introduce students to the basic tools, skills, and history of stop motion animation. From puppets to pixels, almost any inanimate material can be brought to life with stop motion filmmaking. Students will practice many of the aspects of this animation technique including story and character development, scriptwriting, storyboarding, building props and
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