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Open-i Media,
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| Instructor David McManus has created a variety of Web-based video classes for Open-i's Designing for Broadband Certificate Program. |
This three-year-old computer graphics training company is also a design services firm that offers students internships and has created an incubator environment for a handful of startups in a large Tribeca loft. The school will double its classroom capacity in December and offer a variety of classes in multimedia and print-based media on both the Macintosh and PC platforms. Contact: Dana Story or Danielle Navarria, Open-i Media, 73 Franklin Street (between Church and Broadway), New York, NY 10012, 212-343-2510. Hours: 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. M-F and 12:00 - 6:00 p.m. Sat and Sun.
School of Visual
Arts, New York, New York
Founded in 1947, the School of Visual Arts has pioneered the use of
full-time working professionals as instructors, bringing working artists
into the classroom. Today, more than 700 award winning designers,
photographers, video and filmmakers, exhibiting artists, critics,
scholars, poets, playwrights and philosophers comprise the college's
faculty. Digital video-related courses may be found in the Computer
Art as well as Film and Video departments and students have the option
of selecting courses in BFA, MFA or Continuing Ed programs. Premiere,
After Effects and Avid video editing are course selections in the
Computer art department and courses such as broadcast design, video
production, directing and lighting may be found in the Film and Video
department. School of Visual Arts 209 East 23rd Street New York, NY
10010-3994 Phone: 212-592-2011 Fax: 212-592-2012 Contact Person: Stuart
Ginsberg E-mail Address: sginsberg@adm.schoolofvisualarts.edu
Borough of
Manhattan Community College, New York, New York
Offering a two-year Associate and Applied Science degree that can
be fully appropriated toward a 4-year degree at New York University's
Communication and Media Ecology program, BMCC students have two optional
tracks that offer students courses in traditional video production.
The Corporate Cable Communications program emphasizes non-broadcasting
design for teleconferencing applications and the Multimedia Production
Programs emphasize graphic arts, programming or video. Each program
is 60 credits and credits are $110. The school's 10-station networked
Avid facility is also available to Continuing Education students who
pay a very reasonable $300 for 5 weeks. Although the school does not
yet offer a convergence curriculum, the school has purchased a video
server and will offer Webcasting in the near future. Borough of Manhattan
Community College, 199 Chamber Street, New York, NY. Contacts: Suzanne
Schick, Corporate Cable Communications Program, 212-346-8745; Ann
Hjelle, Multimedia Production Program, 212-346-8169; Continuing Education,
212-346-8245.
Pasadena City
College, Pasadena, California
This two-year community college has a highly successful television
production and television operations curriculum. With course content
that is usually only available on-the-job, the school averages a 99%
placement rate. Course credits are $13. Pasadena City College, 1570
Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena, California, 626-585-7123 Contact: Michael
Bloebaum, Director, Communications Division, email: lmbloebaum@paccd.cc.ca.us
Creative Computer
Workshop, Mountain View, California
This Silicon Valley-based training company is an Adobe Authorized
Training Center that offers Adobe Premiere training as well as a wide
variety of other computer graphics courses. The school attracts students
from out-of-town and has discovered an increased demand for Adobe
Premiere training in the past two years. Depending on a candidate's
technical background, Premiere training is offered in 3, 9 or 12 hour
modules and sessions are scheduled with Cyn Breon, the company's resident
trainer who specializes in digital video. Classes are scheduled one-on-one
with one student per class. Evening and weekend sessions are available
and the school can advise out-of-town visitors about overnight accommodations
in the surrounding area. Contact: Cyn
Breon, Creative Computer Workshop, 340 Pioneer Way, Mountain View,
California, 94941, 650-625-8190
Full
Sail, Winter Park (Orlando), Florida
This "media arts" school was founded twenty years ago in the back
room of a Chicago recording studio and now offers an accelerated accredited
associates degree or the equivalent of two years of education in 16
months. To accomplish this, the school is open 7 days a week, 24 hours
a day. What began as a high-end audio production program has expanded
to include separate film and video, digital media (including streaming
technology), animation and gaming programs. Because the school emphasizes
a "real world education," class curriculum is very project-oriented
with a heavy emphasis on project planning, testing and debugging.
School faculty are working professionals and the school has developed
relationships with high-end equipment manufacturers to keep the school's
36 studios and 3 sound stages up-to-date.
Strategically, faculty members have integrated Web-specific media assets and production techniques into their existing curriculum and teach students to "design for broadcast" and then "optimize" data for others mediums such as Web and CD-ROM. Other interesting school resources include a live show production facility and a venue called "Full Sail Live" where industry professional's lectures are Webcast and archived in a Web-based video-on-demand reference library, an Avid 9000 system and resources that allow students to shoot on 35 mm film and cut on digital beta, animation facilities that include Softimage, Maya, Alias Wavefront, an SSL 9000 system with over 100 tracks for mixing sound, Sonic Foundry's Sound Forge, Acid and Vegas for streaming or broadcast sound design and blue screen editing. Full Sail, 3300 University Blvd., Winter Park, Florida 32792, 407-679-0100, Contacts: Mac Rutan, Course Director for Digital Media Assembly; Admissions, 1-800-226-7625 or see the school's Web site.
Columbia College,
Chicago, Illinois
Columbia College is both an undergraduate and graduate college with
a comprehensive educational program in the arts, media, and communications.
The school's Television Department offers the most extensive selection
of classes in the Midwest. There are 66 television courses in total
and examples include Interactive Television: Games, the Web and TV,
Interactive Television Production, Digital Editing, Screenwriting,
Producing a Television Talk Show, Special Effects, Video Techniques
I, II and III and Television Career Strategies. The school's Interactive
Multimedia program includes Video Multimedia Production, Adobe After
Effects, Macromedia Director and Web Site Design. Columbia also offers
continuing education courses with a Computer Photocommunications and
Digital Imaging for Graphic Design track. Columbia College, Chicago,
600 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60605 312-663-1600. Contact:
Dr. Barbara Iverson.
Trade Shows
Digital Video Conference and Exposition www.dvexpo.com
SIGGRAPH2000 www.siggraph.org
NAB (National Association of Broadcasters, www.nab.org
MultiMediaCom www.bcr.com/confer/mmcom99f
VideoMaker trade shows, East and West Coasts www.videomaker.com
SMPTE Technical Conference www.smpte.org
Streaming Media East and West www.streamingmedia.com
Web Sites
Veon, Inc, www.veon.com
AudioWorld Online www.audioworld.com
Mandy's International Film ad Television Production Directory www.mandy.com
Real Networks www.real.com
Streaming Media World www.streamingmediaworld.com
StreamingMedia Newsletter, Subscription
StreamingMedia.com www.streamingmedia.com
WindowsMedia.com www.windowsmedia.com
Globix streaming.globix.com
Streaming Media discussion list recommended by Dan Rayburn, earthweb.com
European Streaming Media Union, www.europeanstreamingmedia.com
Digital Coast Weekly, www.digitalcoastweekly.com
Mary Jo Fahey is the author of several computer books, including the Web Publisher's Design Guides (Coriolis Group) and Web Advertising and Marketing By Design (Microsoft Press). She may be contacted at mjfahey@interport.net