Bread and Butter
Bread and Butter workshops help to get you on your way to making gourmet digital sandwiches (taking the metaphor too far?). Designed to cover off on the basics, these workshops will provide you with the skills and understanding to start tackling your creative projects, whether they be music creation, video editing, animation, graphic design, photography, website building, basic app creation or blogging.
Courses will focus on a range of professional and open source platforms, including Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Final Cut Pro and WordPress and AppInventor. Places are limited and do fill up quickly. New dates are annouced in the last week of each month.
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UPCOMING SESSIONS: FULLY BOOKED
Stop Motion Animation Workshop
Revisit your child-like creative side. Get down and dirty with play dough, recycled cardboard and found objects to create a backdrop for your animation ala Wallace and Gromit, Jason and the Argonauts and Gumby. No previous knowledge required, just a decent dose of imagination.
When:3-5pm, 12 May
Where: Lab 1, The Edge
Cost: Free
Bookings: Email book.it@edgeqld.org.au with your name and contact phone number
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DIY High Speed Photography
Ever wanted to capture an image of very fast moving objects and phenomena like smashing a window, exploding a water balloon or throwing a tomato? If you’re nodding your head, then this workshop is for you. High-speed photography is a technique used to take pictures that are usually too fast to be visible to the human eye. Learn the basics of this lower cost set-up, and maybe smash a tomato or two!
When: 5:30-7:30pm, 22 May
Where: Level 0 (aka the basement)
Cost: Free
Bookings: Email book.it@edgeqld.org.au with your name and contact phone number.
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Intro to FreeCAD
To print in 3D, you must first be able to articulate your design in 3D. This workshop will introduce you into the world of Computer Aided Design. Using FreeCAD, open source software similar to SolidWorks and AutoCAD, you will learn how to apply Constructive Solid Geometry to create your own 3D designs. Edge Catalyst, Clinton Freeman, will take you through the step-by-step process, catering for beginners.
When: 5:30-7:30pm, 29 May
Where: Lab 1, The Edge
Cost: Free
Bookings: Email book.it@edgeqld.org.au with your name and contact phone number.
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Graphic Design Essentials (InDesign)
Graphic designers use Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign to make pretty pictures, pretty logos and pretty layouts. But just as you wouldn’t use a paintbrush to change a lightbulb, each piece of design software has strengths that make it better at completing certain design tasks.
Learn to select the right tool for the job, the basics of how to use the software and where to go for more information. Each session will focus on one of the following design tools:
Illustrator – basics of creating and editing vector graphics such as logos
Photoshop – basics of working with photo based materials
InDesign – basics of creating layouts for documents such as business cards, flyers and posters
When: 12:30-2:30pm, 13 May
Where: Lab 1, The Edge
Cost: Free
Bookings: This session is fully booked
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Video Editing 101
Final Cut Pro is a powerful video editing tool, but it can also be a maze of confusion if you don’t know your way around. Ben Carr, Edge VSO and filmmaker, knows this first hand, as he’s the one that gets to field all the questions from our Lab 1 users. In this workshop Ben will be showing you the basics of setting up a project. He’ll be talking codecs, aspect ratios, HD footage and all the nitty gritty of getting footage in, cutting it and getting footage out the other end.
When: 5:30-7:30pm, 2 May
Where: Lab 1, The Edge
Cost: Free
Bookings: This session is fully booked
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Shaping content for the web
What does it take to stand out on the internet? Promoting events, a business, or yourself online has advantages; a potentially enormous audience, a multitude of free channels and the ability to share not only words, but images, video and sound.
In this series of two workshops, we will reveal some of the untapped opportunities the online world can provide for you and your work. Work through which platforms to use, how to find and build audiences and keep your content relevant. This will be a practical session with tips and resources for you to take away.
When: 5:30-7:30pm, 17 May
Where: Lab 2, The Edge
Cost: Free
Bookings: Email book.it@edgeqld.org.au with your name and contact phone number
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COMING UP IN JUNE
Intro to Interactive Graphics and Data Visualisation
Video Editing 101
Graphic Design Essentials (Photoshop)
Shaping Content for the Web
Intro to FreeCAD
DIY Highspeed Photography
