Course Description:

Adobe Photoshop is a powerful industry-standard photo editing software package. Whether you are working on a website, photo editing, retouching old photos, creating a Powerpoint presentation, or a document to be printed, Photoshop can be used to create, modify and enhance your images.
Participants will learn about image file types, cropping images, compositing (putting several images together), using layers, colour, creating masks, applying filters, and formatting text with bevels and other effects.
Requirements: Basic understanding of using a computer and a mouse. No software prerequisites.
Provided: Use of a PC with Adobe Photoshop in the computer lab. Handouts for weekly course objectives.

Software Training: Introduction to Adobe Illustrator
Instructor: Paul Evans
Ages : Adults, Mature Teenagers
When: Tuesdays from 8:00 - 9:00 for 10 weeks
Start Date: Thursday, January 26th
Introductory Price: $ 199.00

Course Description:

Adobe Illustrator is a powerful industry-standard vector drawing and page layout software package. Whether you are working on a logo, drawing, illustration, creating a website, poster, or a document to be printed, Illustrator can be used for a variety of uses in print and online.
Participants will learn about the tools and interface within Illustrator, file types, working with text, using layers and grids, colour use, drawing and painting, and applying filters, actions and other visual effects.
Requirements: Basic understanding of using a computer and a mouse. No software prerequisites.
Provided: Use of a PC with Adobe Illustrator in the computer lab. Handouts for weekly course objectives.

Basic Video Camera Training
Instructor: Jack Butler
Ages : Adults, Mature Teenagers
When: Thursdays from 6:00 - 8:00 for 7 weeks
Start Date: Thursday, January 26th
Cost: $ 150.00

Course Description:

This course is designed for anyone wishing to improve their overall video skills by learning the basics and develop an overall sense how to work with the medium.

Week 1 - Introduction to the video camera, tripod and lights and how they work. Handling the equipment will be part of this lecture
Week 2- Composition, framing, colour balance and lighting technique. 
Week 3 – Planning for a shoot. Each student will formulate a plan for the course project. The concept is a common theme but each student puts their own particular style to it.
Week 4- The first half is a discussion on working in the industry and what is expected. The second half would be interview and press conference shooting as well as news style shoots. The basics and importance of audio will be part of this.
Week 5-Field trip day, possibly a Saturday at the City Market. This would be the theme for the exercise and the chance to shoot footage.
Week 6-Editing and how that fits into video production. For this course the project will not be edited. We will discuss the role of editing the basic techniques one should know but the main idea is to work toward the process of shooting and not rely heavily editing. This is important as it gets the camera person thinking as to why they are shooting shots and how that will tell a story.
Week 7-Show and tell night, watching each other’s videos, lots of discussion and a coffee or so, that’s a wrap.

Intro to 3D
Instructors: Garth Drake and Karl Bauer
Ages: 14+
Wednesdays 5:00 - 7:00 for 6 weeks
Start Date: January 25th
Cost: 125.00 + tax

Course Description:

This course is an introduction to the basics of 3D animation. It is recommended for adults and mature teenagers that have an interest in 3D animation and potentially would like to take Atlantica's full-time diploma program. It includes introduction to Modeling, Texturing, Character Animation, and Lighting using Autodesk Maya. Students will gain the basic knowledge of Animation using keys and gestures, movement, flow, arcs, presentation and lighting, regardless of individual computer ability. Students will complete a project to take home during the course. Materials are included in the course fee.

Introduction to Urban Beat Making
Instructor: Craig Gower
Ages : 18 +
Length: 12 hours over 4 weeks
When: Mondays from 6:00 to 9:00
Start Date: January 23rd
Introductory Price: $ 125.00 + tax

Course Description:

This 4-week introduction course covers some of the key elements that will be included in our more in depth 11-week program.
In those 4 weeks you will be shown hands on music production focusing Hip Hop, Rap, RnB, Dance as well as other styles.

Participants will begin by learning how to create drum beats. Once the drum beats are created the bass line and other instruments will follow until the track starts to form a basic structure and has a catchy hook. The participants will then learn how to 'spice' a track up by drum breaks, intros, outros and other details that make a track more interesting and creative.

Urban Beat Making

Instructor: Craig Gower
Ages : 18 +
Length: 33 hours over 11 weeks
When: Wednesdays from 6:00 to 9:00
Start Date: January 25th
Introductory Price: $ 299.00 + tax

Course Description:

This course is designed for people that have had some experience in beat making either on their own or by taking the “Introduction to Urban Beat Making” course.

Participants will be shown some of the other steps it takes to make your own music, including the art of sampling, chopping up and arranging of samples and everything included in that process to put together a full composition.

Participants will work side by side with students, both in a classroom environment and one on one with the instructor. Not only will you benefit in this learning environment, you will be able to flourish around industry professionals who share in your passion for music.

Participants will learn skills on digital audio workstations and become well versed in the digital / analog world of music production. Learn hands on production instruction on state of the art technology including Propellerheads, Reason & Recycle ect.

Craig Gower, the instructor has years of experience working with people and is very skilled at breaking this complicated art form into bite sized chunks that are easy to understand for beginners and advanced students. Craig has a vast knowledge of the up to date music production programs and can produce some great results with the participants using a number of effects and equipment.

Overall, this course is creative, fun and brings a great sense of achievement once the participants get home and show off results to friends and family.