Animatography 101 -- Storytelling in the Digital Age

Animatography 101 — Storytelling in the Digital Age

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Next Run:	Oct 30 & 31, 2010
Where:	Best Western Coquitlam Inn
Cost:	$75 Cdn per session, or $115 for both, plus HST

Why take this course?

With the explosion of digital photography in the past decade, everyone wants to share the images they've been creating. While scrapbooking is still popular, and there are many online photo sharing sites, more and more people want to share their images in some form of multimedia presentation, whether it be on a DVD, or streaming web video on popular online sites like YouTube.

Can you spare a few hours on a Saturday? Learn animatography! the new way of sharing your photos with family and friends (or what some will call digital slideshows)

Digital slideshows can be a dramatic and impressive way of sharing your photography with family, friends, clubs, and the workplace using home made DVDs, PC video and even with global audiences via such websites as YouTube. Slideshows are no longer static images flashing up on the wall. Today's shows add motion and visual effects to your images, and combined with music and sound effects, they become an entertaining production.

There are many courses available on how to use a particular software application, but this course is a little different. Not only do you learn how to use software, we also help improve your story telling skills using your own photographs. You learn to engage your audience's minds as well as their eyes.

This course provides you with "tools" needed to create great shows, to put the "story" in your presentations. We use techniques adapted from screen and play writing traditions for assembling your story. You learn to understand the effect your image and sound treatments have on your audience.

The course is broken into 2 days.

Day 1: Slide show physiology -- learn the mechanics of putting a slideshow together. This session is about workflow and learning to use the slide show software (Photodex's ProShow Gold)

Day 2: Slide show psychology -- learn the psychological side of creating a slideshow. This session is more about story telling and how you treat your images can affect your audience. We also discuss some of the various ways you can share your shows and how that affects your show's content.

For a more detailed topic list, read the course outline.

If you have questions about this course, contact the instructor: derek@derekcarlin.ca

Note: don't already own ProShow? No problem! Photodex has agreed to give students of this course a 20% discount. On arrival to your course, you will receive a promotional code to use when ordering ProsShow.

Local Photoclubs: Try before you buy!!!

The instructor is available to give (free of charge!) a 30 minute sample presentation of material from this course at local photography clubs (or other interested groups). If you are interested in booking a presentation for your club, contact the instructor at: derek@derekcarlin.ca.

Our next presentation:

September 22: Pacific Digital Photography Club

Click to read some comments from former students

I had used ProShow Gold to create photo slideshows before taking Mr Carlin's class, but wow, I had only touched the surface. I didn't put any thought into the story I wanted to tell. I also could just use the basic functions of ProShow.

After Mr Carlin's course, I'm better at selecting images for a slideshow, selecting appropriate music and telling a story that works for my audience! I also know many additional tips and tricks in ProShow that I use to create my shows.

- David E

Derek introduced me to the world of AV-show-crafting through a seminar he ran last winter, and I couldn't be more pleased. He started with the very important concept of "story-telling with images". That session has been, perhaps the most important to me. He provided tools, guidance and encouragement ... to get us to think about the story we wanted to tell with our images, before we so much as opened a software package. Probably the most important concept of the whole seminar.
Derek also provided a great overview of the use of Pro-Show Gold, ... information and hints about the use of music and other sound, and guidance for turning our shows into files or DVDs to share. All in all it was a very useful and creatively stimulating seminar. And, it was fun!

- Nancy M

As a person who has never put a slideshow together I found Derek's classes to be very informative. He really loves what he teaches and he teaches with care, catering to every learning level. Not only did Derek teach us how to create a slideshow but he also taught about work flow, the amazing task of sorting your abundance of photos is just the start of what you will learn in the work flow part. My first slideshow was for my husband of our honeymoon and he loved it. So whether you want to share your photos of a special day in your life with your family and friends or from an amazing two month trip through Europe, you will find Derek's course to be extremely helpful. You will find that at the end of showing your newly formed slide show you will have captivated your audience. Derek's class is interactive and informative - I highly recommend it!!

- Leigh F

I dreamed to have my own slide show, but I had no idea of how to create it. Thanks Derek to show me how to use Proshow. I learned a lot of useful tools to make my own slide show. I also learned how to organize my photos and chose music to be coordinate with the show. Derek is ... detailed oriented, well knowledged, a lot of creative ideas and very very patient...

- Belinda H