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Visualizing Music with Motion Graphics
29 May & 05 June
Length: 2 day workshop (2 consecutive Saturdays)
Times: 10am - 5pm
At: Lighthouse, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton BN1 4AJ
Tutor: Giles Thacker
Using: Adobe After Effects, Photoshop,
Premiere + various realtime/VJ applications
Level: Intermediate
Cost: £200/£170(concs*)
"Giles is an expert, his teaching methods and presentation are top rate"
"Teaching was clear and easy to follow and delivered with a sound working knowledge and enthusiasm"
 
At the core of virtually all moving image design are two fundamental components - image and sound. This course examines the magic that happens when they meet. Investigate the tools and techniques used to synthesize the two, from mapping audio dynamics and building music-led narratives to creating audio-triggered graphics using expressions. Deconstruct working examples, experiment with advanced tools including expressions and scripts, and also look at some of the real-time/live mix software and hardware tools used to combine audio and visuals, including Isadora and Modul8.
This course is a rare opportunity to explore this area and gain creative insights into processes that have a wide range of applications, from ident design to video art installations.
This course covers:
- seeing music: music visualization, audio analysis and mapping
- working with narrative, storyboards and animatics
- generating content from scratch - animation assistants, expressions, scripts
- effects central: 3rd party plugins and animation presets
- making graphics and characters dance - parenting, puppet tool, expressions
- Premiere/After Effects edit workflow
- compositing graphics with footage, inc rotoscope and greenscreen techniques
General info:
- All courses are demonstrated with Adobe CS4 but the topics covered are appropriate for Adobe CS3 unless specified.
- You are welcome to bring laptops, especially if you use CS3.
- Participants taking the Photoshop and Visualizing Music courses will be expected to have a good working knowledge of Photoshop and After Effects and be comfortable with the concepts covered in the Motion Graphics Fundamentals course.
- After completing the course participants are given listings of relevant resources and reference material.
 
About the tutor:
Giles Thacker set out as one of the original VJs in the late 1980s, then worked as video designer for electronic band Orbital for 10 years, raising the bar for video projection at live events,
performing over 200 shows around the world.
GIles now creates motion graphics for broadcast, corporate presentations and live events, working with
Nike, JCB, 2020 Cricket, the Verve, BBC, Canal +, Nickelodeon, Edinburgh Hogmanay, MTV, Keane,
Turin Brakes, the Princes Trust.
He has tutored several university courses in Animation and Digital Design, has been an Adobe freelance Instructor and is an Adobe Certified Expert in After Effects. His website: ultrascope.co.uk
HOW TO BOOK
You can book your place online or by post.
The courses are filled on a first come first served basis.
* Please note - due to the small class size there is only one place per course at the concessionary rate.
BY POST :
Download a booking form here (pdf)
Print out the form, complete and send in the post to: Lighthouse, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton, BN1 4AJ with a cheque for the course fees to confirm your place.
You will receive an email confirming your place once the form is received.
ONLINE:
Download an online booking form here (word form)
Complete the online form and email to emma@lighthouse.org.uk.
You will then receive an email confirming your place.
Once you have received the confirmation email you can pay your course fees online through Paypal (below).
Do not pay for your course online without receieving the confirmation email from Emma.
If you have any questions or have difficulty downloading
the forms please contact
Emma on 01273 647197 or emma@lighthouse.org.uk
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