Workshops at ACMi provide a great opportunity to learn basic video and television production skills from the staff at Arlington’s community television station. ACMi offers its workshops to ACMi members for $20, and for $40 to non-members, to encourage members to learn to produce their own programs for cablecast on our channels. Below are workshops currently offered by ACMi Staff. View the most current workshop schedule here.
Orientation Workshop:
Sign up for the Orientation Workshop here. Free
Visit us at Arlington Community Media Inc. and learn how you can be involved in community-produced television. Join us for this free orientation and learn everything you need to know to get started at ACMi. We’ll show you how to become a member, take training workshops, use our equipment, produce TV shows, or help others produce theirs. Join the digital communications revolution and learn a marketable skill in the process.
Field Camera Operation & Shot Composition:
Sign up for the Field Camera Operation & Shot Composition Workshop here.
This workshop gives ACMI members a basic understanding of how to set up and operate our portable production camcorders. It gives the participant a basic understanding of how our Sony Z1U and C9 portable cameras operate and how they may be customized to match particular personal preferences. This workshop also teaches the basics of proper shot composition and audio recording and affords participants an opportunity to operate the camera with staff guidance.
(Prerequisite: Orientation).
Adobe Premiere Pro Basic Digital Editing:
Sign up for the Premiere Workshop here.
This workshop introduces a new ACMI member to the Adobe Premiere Elements digital video editing software. This software is a PC-based and is considered industry standard in video editing on the PC platform. Participants learn how the software’s user-interface is used to capture video to a computer’s hard drive for editing, and then to finalize it on a DVD.
(Prerequisite: Orientation and Field Camera)
Final Cut Pro Basic Digital Editing:
Sign up for the Final Cut Workshop here.
(two 3-hour sessions)
This two-session workshop guides participants through the basic and intermediate operations of Apple’s Final Cut Pro, from an introduction to the FCP interface, through editing and output. This workshop is designed for those that prefer to work with the Macintosh operating system. Topics include video capture and logging, editing, trimming and fine tuning, adding transitions and effects, audio editing, and basic graphics creation. Final Cut Pro is the industry standard for creating and editing media on the Macintosh OS platform.
(Prerequisite: Orientation)
Studio Operations:
Sign up for the Studio Operations Workshop here.
(One 3-hour session)
The Studio Operations workshop is designed to give participants a beginners overview of the in-studio process for LIVE and live-to-tape TV productions. Students will learn the required tasks for each of the crew positions, including: camera operator, floor manager, audio board operator, graphics operator, teleprompter operator, technical director, and director. Pre- and post-production set-up of the studio will also be covered, as well as set design and placement, microphone set-up, and studio lighting.
(Prerequisites: Orientation and Field Cam Op & Shot Comp)
Graphic Design – Intro to Photoshop:
Sign up for the Intro to Photoshop Workshop here.
(One 2-hour session)
Learn the basics of good image composition and develop an understanding of effective design. Learn the interface Photoshop and become comfortable with its basic tools and concepts, particularly layers.
Graphic Design – Intro to Illustrator:
Sign up for the Intro to Illustrator Workshop here.
(One 2-hour session)
Learn the basics of good image composition and develop an understanding of effective design. Learn the interface Illustrator and become comfortable with its basic tools and concepts, particularly layers.
