Our Courses — Filmmaking, Photography & Software Skills for Schools
Discover a suite of creative media courses designed to engage students, build technical skills, and spark imaginative storytelling. Each course is available as an incursion (we bring the workshop to you) or excursion (your students visit our studio) — whichever fits your school’s schedule and resources.
Courses on Video
Video and Film In Practice with classroom exercises
This is a hands-on workshop that gives teachers the opportunity to shoot their own short film and edit it. In the workshop, we will use a range of cameras from Smartphone, DSLRs to RED 8K Cinema cameras. We will cover Lighting, Audio and limited editing using Adobe Premiere Rush.
1-Day Short Film Workshop: Filmmaking in 6 Scenes
In this one-day workshop, students learn the fundamentals of visual storytelling by creating a short film in just six scenes. They’ll explore composition, editing, and camera movement step-by-step, gaining practical filmmaking skills and producing a finished project by the end of the day.
Courses on Photography
Photography Fundamentals with classroom exercises
Design for anyone wanting to know how you can control the look of your images. We cover camera setting, understanding exposure, how setting effect the focus & movement as well as lighting. We will be taking images in a studio with both flash and continuous lighting. we do also cover some editing in Adobe Lightroom. This is a course for beginners starting with a DSLR and wanting to know how to get the best results.
Photography & Lighting: In the Studio
This workshop introduces students to the fundamentals of studio lighting. Whether for portrait or still life, in the studio, students will learn how to manipulate light and mood to create the desired effect. In-class demonstrations cover the unique properties and use of strobe equipment and continuous light sources, such as tungsten and LED lighting, as well as diffusers, specialized reflectors, focusing elements, and light shapers. Students learn to consider the direction of light, proper exposure, and lighting’s effect on contrast and colour balance. We also examine the properties of various lighting conditions and colour temperature, including mixing daylight with artificial lighting. There will also be Classroom excesses to take back to your school for both still life and portrait photography.
Still Life Photography with classroom activities
This course is for anyone looking to photograph objects. This can be photographing art like paintings & sculptures, Food and products or fleeting reactions like ink in a fish tank. these are some of the things we will learn in this course. We will look at using an iPhone and DSLR, how lenses affect the image, difference in lighting options and how to control it all to get the image. This will all be broken down into projects to take back to your classroom.
Courses on Software
Learn Photoshop for Photographers with classroom exercises
This course is for beginners. You do not need any previous knowledge of Photoshop, photography or design. We will start right at the beginning and work our way through step by step.
This is a course that teaches you how to edit your digital images and produce creative images. It is intended for photographers who wish to take the editing of their images to the next level using industry-standard software. Adobe Photoshop will be the photo editing software used in this course to editing original images and for producing creative effects to achieve maximum impact. Students will discover the scope of creative possibilities offered by Photoshop.
Learning and Teaching Adobe Lightroom with classroom exercises
This course unlocks the power of Lightroom as a teaching tool. Lightroom is part of the Creative Cloud package that is often overlooked and undervalued. Lightroom is much more than another version of Photoshop, it is a real Digital Darkroom that is both intuitive and responsive. Learning and Teaching Adobe lightroom takes you through the fundamentals of digital photography and gives you the skills and experience to use Lightroom to Manage Manipulate and Share all your photos. The course is focussed on teaching and learning so the workshop is also crammed full of programming ideas and resources to incorporate Lightroom into your teaching.
On-Line Learning how to Edit Videos in Adobe Premiere Rush
Learn how to use Adobe Premiere Rush — Video Editor. ... Arrange video, audio, graphics, and photos by dragging and dropping. Intuitive tools let you trim and crop videos, adjust audio, enhance colour, and add video effects, titles, transitions, voiceovers, and more.