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DCTV is a non-profit media arts center in NYC that offers affordable workshops, production equipment, and space rentals for independent filmmakers. They provide a variety of hands-on digital filmmaking and media arts workshops in a convenient and accessible training facility.
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DaVinci Resolve: Color
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Unlock the full potential of your footage with DaVinci Resolve's advanced color correction techniques. From mastering color balance to shot matching, this online workshop at DCTV will equip you with the expertise to transform your visuals and enhance your hues. Take your grading and color correction skills to the next level with this comprehensive course.
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Premiere
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Learn the art of multimedia video editing with a versatile and comprehensive course at DCTV. Discover how to seamlessly integrate Adobe programs like After Effects and Photoshop for optimal motion graphic workflows. Unlock your creative potential with this hands-on training.
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Camera Fundamentals
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Learning digital video production is vital for independent filmmakers and for anyone interested in harnessing the power of media. Camera Fundamentals is accessible and easy-to-learn, teaching you basic concepts and technical skills applicable to any camera. In this online version of a classic DCTV Workshop, learn about focus, exposure, white balance, and composition. A perfect introduction! This is an online Production workshop at the Fundamentals...
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Pro Tools (Online)
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As the adage goes, without sound, you have no image. See why Pro Tools is the celebrated audio editing platform that can optimize your audio material for radio, film, music and web media. Learn how to clean up background noise with room tones, bring atmosphere and texture to your tracks, and transition between different takes for professional-quality continuity. This is a Post-Production workshop at the Fundamentals level....
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Documentary Theory
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Explore the evolution of documentary filmmaking and its impact on contemporary cinema at DCTV. Immerse yourself in pivotal works, learn from the innovators, and discover the approaches and ethics that continue to shape this influential genre. Gain a deeper understanding of the documentary craft and its relevance to your practice.
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Third Cinema: Films of Resistance
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Explore the revolutionary impact of Third Cinema, a movement born from the desire to challenge traditional filmmaking and empower marginalized voices. Delve into its origins in 1960s Latin America, its global influence, and its role in decolonizing film through narrative, documentary, and hybrid forms. Discover how this dynamic approach continues to shape cinema today.
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Documentary Budgeting
DCTV See all classes by this school @ 87 Lafayette St, New York, NY
What are the standard costs for making a documentary film? Have we considered all of our potential line items? There’s only so long that you can guess at your numbers. Learn how to create a realistic and professional budget catered to your film’s needs and scope that will secure funding and keep your project on track! Topics include: Budget Formats Anatomy of a Budget Categories Line items How to Determine Rates Materials: All you...
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$60
Unearthing the Media Archives
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When your story includes a past account or needs context, you can find useful material and records in cultural, stock, and historical collections. Prepare to embark on the archival research process by learning how to search through rich troves of media and license that media for use in your project. Topics include: Types of Archives The Process of Archival Research Digital and Physical Archives When to Hire an Archivist Introduction to...
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$65
Mobile Filmmaking
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From video diaries to feature films, your light, mobile, and quite powerful smartphone can be used to create your next project. Explore techniques, strategies, and tools, including additional accessories and apps that liberate your production by keeping costs low and your shoots inventive. There will be an independent exercise assigned between sessions of this workshop. Topics include: When to Shoot Vertical Video Lens and Stability Accessories...
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Developing Your Story
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You have a great idea for a documentary, and maybe even some great footage. But how does it fit together? Are you telling a clear or most impactful story? Explore different ways of shaping documentary films, including three-act structure, theme, plot, and character arcs, using specific films as case studies. You will then have up to 15 minutes each to discuss your own documentary stories in development or early production and solicit feedback from...
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Documentary Cinematography (Online)
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There are endless ways to capture a story. How do you know the best way to shoot yours? In this workshop, examine various modes and styles in documentary cinematography. From handheld verité to the Interrotron and high production value, explore the myriad of ways a cinematographer can change the look and feel of any shoot on site and in frame. There will be indepedent readings and screenings assigned between sessions of this workshop. ...
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Art of the Interview
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Learn the art of conducting powerful and engaging interviews in this workshop at DCTV. Gain the skills to navigate ethical considerations, build connections with interviewees, and capture candid responses. Perfect for aspiring podcasters and journalists looking to take their interviewing skills to the next level.
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Get Your Film Into Festivals
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Discover the key strategies and insights to navigate the competitive film festival circuit and maximize the potential of your film. Uncover the secrets to researching festivals, crafting successful applications, and making the most of each festival experience in this industry-focused course at DCTV.
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$110
Audio Storytelling
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What better time than now to try your hand at non-fiction audio! Audio storytelling can take on different exciting formats, from journalism to documentary, and podcasts to experimental sound collage. In this workshop, building from your foundation of audio production and post-production skills, plan, record/source and edit aural material from interviews, field recordings and sound effects, to make your own imageless story. In this workshop, you...
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$250
Reviews of DCTV
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Camera Fundamentals
Great teacher, well formatted and hands on experience!!! -
Camera Fundamentals
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Unearthing the Media Archives
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Digital Cinematography: Lighting
This is a great course to learn about the technical and the artistic elements of film lighting. I'm very happy I took the class, and Patrick is a great instructor. -
Camera Fundamentals
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Audio Fundamentals
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After Effects
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After Effects
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Unearthing the Media Archives
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Digital Cinematography: Camera
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Digital Cinematography: Camera
I loved my Cinematography class! Patrick was very knowledgeable and answered all questions everyone had - and there were many! I definitely will take more film classes with DCTV. -
Mobile Filmmaking
CLASS WAS CANCELED AND NO REFUND -
After Effects
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Audio Fundamentals
Very informative. I would have liked even more sessions. Instructor was very good about answering questions and steering the talk to our areas of interest. -
Online Workshop: After Effects: Titles and Infographics
Was hoping that it would focus on title design for film opening/end credits or for animating text on screen in videos and focus on infographics such as bar graphs, pie charts and data driven graphics like number counters, HUD displays and such. But his focus was scattered across showing as many project files as he could and skimming over steps while telling stories or making jokes. This course would be better titled as After Effects Tips and Tricks. A lot of time was wasted waiting for his computer to render the video in the app in order to see the animations. He should have rendered a .mp4 video of the animation before the workshop for us to open alongside the project so that we could preview what the animation will look like before he started diving into a project and showing us his steps. Sometimes we would open a project, follow him as he pointed out certain steps and then eventually we would see the end result and I thought the payoff was not worth all the time spent going over it. Some of the tips/tricks he mentioned were good to know, but you could learn those shortcuts/hot keys in an AE Fundamentals course. It felt like he focused on showing tricks as he showed his previous work and it could have been better if he chose a few really cool infographic or title styles and did a whole session on mastering that style/animation and then moving on to the next. -
Camera Fundamentals
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Camera Fundamentals
One of the best workshops I have done! -
Photoshop
Tom was very knowledgeable and patient when you had questions or made a mistake. He even took the time to see if we had questions on anything he didn't cover but we wanted to know more about. The only downside to the class was that he didn't have any notes or handouts to give up of his own knowledge or shortcuts he spoke about in class. They were very helpful and I wish we had his "cliff notes". I took an Excel workshop before and they handed out a packet like this. He did give us some printouts of shortcuts that he found online for us. But besides that, great class! -
Avid
I left the class early after the lunch break and didn't return the second day. I don't know if it was for me and I felt like it might have been for people who had a baseline understanding of video editing. -
Production Week
