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MAPS Intro to Film at Blackfeet Community College

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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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Film: Creating a Music Video

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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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Film: Frame by Frame – Stop Motion Animation

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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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Design: Comic Book Cover Art

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In this 1 week summer class, students will learn industry standards of writing and creating comic books. Students will explore and review the fundamentals of design & comic cover layout by creating their own superhero themed comic book cover. In this one week class, students will Explore different types of comic book art, covers, and

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Music: A Week in the Studio

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Students will spend one week learning the ins and outs of working in a professional music studio environment. Whether students play a musical instrument, love to work with computer software, are master organizers, or have never even considered making music, they will all find themselves part of a team working towards a common goal –

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Tech: Sky Robots – Build Your Own RC Cargo Carrying Camera System

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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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Film: The Art of the Interview

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In this 3-day class, students will learn Interview techniques from professional filmmakers Interview best practice for subject research, question preparation and active listening skills; Basic interview principles: how to ask open-ended, closed ended and follow up questions; How to use camera, audio and lighting equipment; Crew roles and responsibilities Best practices for digital file maintenances

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Film: Creative Cinematography

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This class explores the fundamentals of cinematography as well as creative film making in general. We will focus on disciplined camera techniques and creative equipment implementation.  All skills learned in the class will be put to practical use as we create visual narratives through cinematic storytelling. In this 9 week class, students will Learn how

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Music: Bringing Music to Life

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Learning collaboration song creation and music video production. We’ll begin with the basic of audio production using programs like Pro Tools and Ableton. From there, we’ll be learning the basics of music recording, editing and mixing. Once the song is done, we’ll get the cameras out and learn basic camera recording techniques and compositions. And

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