Animation Basics
In animation ‘tweening’ isn’t hanging out with your little sister and her friends at the mall – it’s short for inbeetweening. Marianna Shek will help you brush up on your lingo and introduce you to professional animating tools, After Effects and Flash to help you make pictures move without resorting to a dodgy flipbook.

When: 5:30-7:30pm, 11 Jan
Where: Lab 1, The Edge
Cost: Free
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Intro to Music Recording
Andrei will take participants through using Lab 3 for recording, editing and mixing over three consecutive workshops. The first week will concentrate on using The Edge’s recording facilities, working with an acoustic artist. Editing will be the focus of the second week, followed by mixing in the final session. Bookings are limited to eight participants.

When: 5.30-7.30pm, 12 Jan (recording), 5.30-7.30pm 19 Jan (editing), 3:30-5:30pm 26 Jan (mixing)
Where: Lab 3, The Edge
Cost: Free
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Bread and Butter: Comics Edition
Garnish your writing, design, illustration and character development skills with the help of the experts from Ashcan. This eight week course is free, but you’ll need to bring your own paper, pencils, x-ray specs* and super-hero costume*.
* X-ray specs and costume optional.

When: 1-3pm, second Sunday of each month
Where: Lab 1 and 2, The Edge (see weekly details below)
Cost: Free
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Week 6: Illustrating comics
Learn how to use the comic panel to convey meaning , being mindful of the gutter and negative space around the panels. Work through different panel transitions, how to use panel frequency and shape to create timing and pace and incorporate cinemative techniques ie: camera angles, shot types etc.

Facilitator: Darren Fisher
When: 1-3pm, 15 Jan
Where: Lab 2
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Intro to Interactive Graphics and Data Visualisation
Are you interested in creating interactive and dynamic graphics that respond to user interaction or reflect life data streams from the internet? Processing is a powerful open-source platform that is easy to learn. In this workshop you’ll learn the basics of programming, data visualisation and get acquainted with the Processing development environment.

When: 5:30-7:30pm, 17 Jan
Where: Lab 1, The Edge
Cost: Free
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Smartphone Journalism
Enabling revolutions and inspiring radical opportunities, smartphones open up instant pathways for sharing stories. In this session we look at the smart-phone as a powerful journalistic device, stepping through how to shoot an interview on a smartphone, record audio and upload geo-located content to the web.

When: 5:30-7:30pm, 24 Jan
Where: Lab 1, The Edge
Cost: Free
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Intro to Photography
Photography has come a long way since it began 185 years ago. Thoroughly modern Melly Niotakis will take participants through the basics of composition and lighting using point and shoot style digital cameras. In a second serve of basics for photography, Melly will show users the ins-and-outs of exposure, f-stop and focus for DSLR’s.

When: 3:30-5:30pm, 28 Jan
Where: Lab 1, The Edge
Cost: Free
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