Online. 3 sessions: Mondays, July 10-24, 6:30-8:30 pm CDT This online course covers basic nonlinear editing with Premiere Pro through demonstrations and hands-on instruction using footage provided by the instructor. Topics include media management and archiving, editing vocabulary and concepts, importing and organizing your media, trimming clips and building your rough cut, using a variety of editing tools to fine-tune your edit, working with sound, applying transitions, adding titles, and exporting your project. The material covered is applicable to Premiere…

2 sessions: Tuesdays, July 11-18th, 6:30-9:30 pm This introductory workshop translates basic psychology concepts, research, and neuroscience into techniques for screenwriting, development, and production. The information and exercises serve as tools to expand ways of developing characters, creating new worlds, and increasing audience engagement.   These two sessions build a basic framework that expands filmmaker strategies for different formats, genres, and styles. By coupling current research with your instinct and personal journey, the workshop increases options that heighten dynamics of human…

In-person. 8 sessions: Mondays, July 17-September 11 (no class 9/4), 6:00-9:00 pm This on-camera acting course is designed for beginning and newer actors, plus stage actors looking to make the transition from stage to screen. Each participant will examine relationship, circumstance, and conflict with a scene partner, infusing a neutral text with stakes and intention. Using moment to moment work, we’ll analyze the essential and vital skills of powerful, confident acting, while applying it to the physical constraints and intimacy…