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This is your chance to take all those hours of holiday footage and turn them into a keepsake that is inspirational and interesting! Through a combination of hands-on tutorials, this course will give you the basic knowledge required to complete your own short, edited video. Whilst we can provide stock footage to work on, you are encouraged to bring in your own whether it is for home or a corporate video.

By the end of the course, using Adobe Premiere Elements software, you will understand how to transfer footage from your camcorder to your hard disk and import it into the editing package. You will be able to shape those clips into a film using the editing package’s timeline, add transitions, effects, titles plus sound and finally export your completed movie for fascinating viewing.

Entry Requirements

Applicants must have basic computer skills

Student Instructions

Please bring a pen and paper, your own digital movie footage to work on (optional), a memory stick/USB flash drive for saving and taking your work home, plus your own headphones.

Topics

• Introduction to course + what we hope to achieve
• How to import video
• Common sources of media files
• File types you can import
• Adding files from DVDs, digital cameras, mobile phones, non-tape camcorders, and other devices
• How to edit clips
• The Preview window
• To zoom into or out of the Timeline
• About trimming clips
• About previewing and trimming in the Preview window
• Trimming a clip in the Preview window
• Zooming in and out in the Preview window
• Trimming a clip in the Monitor panel
• Removing frames from the middle of a clip in the Sceneline
• About editing clips on the Timeline
• About splitting clips
• Splitting a clip
• How to add transitions
• Where to access transitions
• transition appearance in the Sceneline and the Timeline
• To preview a transition prior to applying it
• Controls and options for adjusting transitions
• How to add titles
• About titles, templates, styles, formatting, colours, shadows, rolls and crawls
• How to import audio
• Keeping audio synced with video
• How to export your final film
• Students work on their own movie.

Career Prospects

Not applicable

Delivery Style

Hands-on on TAFE computers

Outcomes

At the end of this course students should be able to bring footage into Adobe Premiere Elements and edit it, add transitions to their timeline, add titles and audio to their movie and complete their own movie, then export it for viewing.

Students will gain a basic understanding of the Illustrator CS5 vector drawing software package, and some experience to create professionally designed illustrations.

Entry Requirements

This course requires a solid understanding of computers, importing, locating and opening files on a PC platform. It is also required that students have a working knowledge of the internet. Some sort of illustration/drawing ability is also a plus.

Student Instructions

Students are required to bring a notepad, pen and pencil. A memory stick/USB flash drive for saving and storing your work to take saved files between home and the course.

Topics

• File structure and its importance.
• Design principles and elements.
• The program/software design workspace/layout.
• Working with the program drawing tools and controls.
• The importance of using layers.
• Creating/saving industry standard documents.
• Placing/importing the various content into illustrator.
• Using both the pen and paint brush tools to create illustrations.
• Selecting and manipulating objects.
• Understanding colour
• Exporting/ outputting pages to multiple media. (Web and Print)

Career Prospects

Not applicable.

Delivery Style

This course is designed to cater to the individual learners need. It is predominantly self-paced with hands on facilitator instruction and assistance.

Outcomes

Students will gain a basic understanding of the Illustrator CS5 vector drawing software package. This course is an introductory course, aimed at the introductory level user, which will give you a sound understanding of the software and provide you with the relevant experience to create professionally designed illustrations.

This course is aimed at the introductory level, which will give you a sound understanding of the software used within the graphic design/advertising industry and also provide you with the relevant experience to create professionally designed multi-page documents for both print and web.

Entry Requirements

This course requires a solid understanding of computers, importing, locating and opening files on a PC platform. It is also required that students have a working knowledge of the internet.

Student Instructions

Students are required to bring a notepad, pen and pencil. A memory stick/USB flash drive for saving and storing your work to take saved files between home and the course.

Topics

• File structure and its importance.
• Design principles and elements.
• The program/software design workspace/layout.
• Working with the program tools and the importance of layers
• Creating/saving industry standard multi-page documents.
• Placing/importing the various file types.
• Effective page layout principles
• Understanding colour
• Setting character/paragraph styles for formatting text
• Exporting/ outputs pages to multiple media. (Web and Print)

Career Prospects

Not applicable.

Delivery Style

This course is designed to cater to the individual learners need. It is predominantly self-paced with hands on facilitator instruction and assistance.

Outcomes

Students will gain a basic understanding of the Indesign CS3 page layout software package and gain knowledge in prepress print requirements, correct file size and formats, as well as good graphic design elements and principles. This course is an introductory course, aimed at the introductory level, which will give you a sound understanding of the software used within the graphic design/advertising industry and also provide you with the relevant experience to create professionally designed multi-page documents for both print and web.

This Photoshop CS4 advanced course gives you a sound understanding on how to manipulate layers and images to an advanced stage of design. A basic, sound knowledge of computers is essential.

Entry Requirements

This course requires that you have completed the Photoshop CS4 introductory course OR have a sound basic knowledge of Photoshop CS4.

Student Instructions

Student to bring a pen and paper. You can also bring images from a digital camera, CD/DVD or USB drive. A Memory stick/USB flash drive for saving your work and taking your files home.

Topics

• Using repairing, painting and restoring tools.
• Pens, Paths, Shapes and Vectors.
• Constructing layer effects using blending modes, layer effects/styles and filters.
• Using masks.
• Automate functions using the actions palette.

Career Prospects

Not applicable

Delivery Style

This course is information based and designed to cater to a wide range of learner needs. It is predominantly self-paced with facilitator assistance.

Outcomes

Students will gain a more advanced knowledge of Photoshop CS4 functions and techniques. This advanced course will give you a sound understanding on how to manipulate layers and images to an advanced stage of design.

A student quote . . . It was the perfect level to enter at with the knowledge I already had so it was easier to progress. The content was well thought out and covers a wide range of applications - especially suited to my work. – L. Hoppe

Students will gain basic knowledge of Photoshop CS5 functions and understand the correct file types needed for email, printing and the web. This is an introductory course and will give you basic ground knowledge in the use of layers and basic image enhancing and photo colour correction to help you progress to more advanced Photoshop CS5 and multimedia courses. Learning Photoshop CS5 would also help you to understand lesser digital imaging software such as Adobe elements. This is an introductory course to Photoshop CS5 NOT on how to use a computer; a basic sound knowledge of computers is a requirement for entry into this course.

Entry Requirements

This course requires a solid understanding of computers, importing, locating and opening image files.

Student Instructions

Student to bring a pen and paper. You can also bring images from a digital camera, CD/DVD or USB drive. A Memory stick/USB flash drive for saving your work and taking your files home.

Topics

• What Photoshop CS5 is used for and what the software actually does.
• Digitising and importing images into Photoshop CS5 using a choice of methods such as scanners, downloading from the web and copying from a CD/USB pens.
• Orientation and understanding the Photoshop CS5 work space.
• Understanding an image’s file format, size and resolution and how to alter this in relation to its output destination (i.e. saving images for web or print).
• Using the selection, move tool and transform options.
• Working with layers.
• Manipulate images by adjusting levels, contrast, brightness, hue and saturation and cloning tool.

Career Prospects

Not applicable

Delivery Style

This course is information based and designed to cater to a wide range of learner needs. It is predominantly self-paced with facilitator assistance.

Outcomes

Students will gain basic knowledge of Photoshop CS5 functions and understand the correct file types needed for email, printing and the web. This is an introductory course and will give you basic ground knowledge in the use of layers, basic image enhancing and photo colour correction to help you progress to more advanced Photoshop CS5 and multimedia courses.

The hottest new marketing tool is social networking. It is available to everyone, but how do you use it? This overview gives you the opportunity to analyse what web technologies are available, how they can benefit your organisation and which direction you want to go with them. Topics include the business potential of blogs, wikis and twitter and how to set them up. This course will give you the knowledge to enable you to diversify your web strategies and use social networking, helping make the internet really work for your business.

To make use of social networks you do not need to be an experienced writer or to know the intricacies of Microsoft Office. One of the delights of social networking (and of blogging) is that they are tools that almost anyone can use.

Entry Requirements

This module assumes you have basic computer skills including access to the internet and keyboard use.

Student instructions

Classes will start promptly at the designated time. Please bring a notebook and pen to the class.

Topics

• How in recent years the concept of social networking has changed to the point that for many people it has become synonymous with the Internet
• The new “hot” sites and how people are using them
• How you can use social networking sites to tell your own story or deliver your message
• Simple blogging and how to determine whether blogging is for you
• Collaborative environments and
• How local businesses and community organisations are making use of social networks

Career prospects

Increasingly, potential employers are looking at social networking sites in their efforts to profile potential employees. Social networking skills can be used purely to keep in contact with friends and acquaintances although increasingly, they are being used to grow business networks and develop sales leads.

Presentation

Classroom delivery with presentation and hand-outs. Tutor’s computer is connected to the Internet to provide real life examples. Presentation is complemented with discussion and exercises plus an opportunity to explore different aspects of social networking. Course participants will have password access to tutor’s own learning website where they can download further course notes and continue the learning process.

Outcomes

Participants will gain a broad understanding of the use and abuse of online social networking and how such networks can be used to enhance personal and business engagement. You will also learn some of the pitfalls to avoid.

Don’t use a blog to sell products – use it to sell it yourself. That’s just the first of many tips and techniques you’ll learn in this fast moving session on the latest way to keep your business in front of potential customers. Just one element in social networking, it is arguably the most important, yet one of the hardest to implement with real effect. We’ll show you how.

To start blogging you do not need to be an experienced writer or to know the intricacies of Microsoft Office although if you are a Word 2007 user, it may give you additional options for writing and posting your blogs. One of the delights of social networking and of blogging is that they are tools that almost anyone can use.

This course will be of special interest to those who need to develop online information and marketing skills for themselves, as a member of an organisation or for their own business.

Entry requirements

This module assumes you have basic computer skills including access to the internet and keyboard use. It also assumes you have a basic knowledge of social networking as applied to the Internet.

Student Instructions

Classes will start promptly at the designated time. Please bring a notebook and pen to the class.

Topics

• We look at the phenomenon of blogging as part of your online promotional strategy (either self or business) and the key principles you need to keep in mind when setting up a blog
• We will discuss how you should organise your blogging activity and how you can use blogging for profit
• We look at the top blogging sites and in detail at Blogger and WordPress
• We will demonstrate how to set up and manage a blog using Word, Blogger and WordPress.
• Finally we look at how local businesses and community organisations are making use of blogs

Career prospects

Increasingly, potential employers are looking at blogging as part of the customer relations management (CRM) strategy. Internally, blogs on the corporate website are a means of informing and training staff. An ability to understand blogging will be an added skill to anyone in business dealing with clients and customers (and isn’t that just about everyone?). SO if you are in CRM or HR then chances are that blogging skills will soon become an essential part of your skill set.

Presentation

Classroom delivery with presentation and hand-outs. Tutor’s computer is connected to the Internet to provide real life examples. Presentation is complemented with discussion and exercises plus an opportunity to explore different aspects of social networking. Course participants will have password access to tutor’s own learning website where they can download further course notes and continue the learning process.

Outcomes

Participants will gain a broad understanding of the use of blogging with special emphasis on a business environment. Real life examples will give you ideas for your own business.

This course is designed to add to the skills gained in the introductory course and will provide opportunities to create professional illustrations for both print and web.
You will learn to work with advanced drawing tools and filters. You will also create brushes, learn transformation tools, create gradients and blends, work with compound paths and explore masking techniques, you must be confident with document creation, using the pen tool, creating and manipulating shapes.

Entry Requirements

Illustrator basic knowledge is required.

Student Instructions

Students are required to bring a notepad, pen and pencil. A memory stick/USB flash drive for saving and storing your work to take saved files between home and the course.

Topics

• to be advised

Career Prospects

Not applicable.

Delivery Style

This course is designed to cater to the individual learners need. It is predominantly self-paced with hands on facilitator instruction and assistance.

Outcomes

Students will gain a basic understanding of the Illustrator CS5 vector drawing software package. This course will give you a sound understanding of the software and provide you with the relevant experience to create professionally designed illustrations.

InDesign Intermediate course builds on the InDesign Introduction course and includes more complex page layout and formatting techniques to allow you to become more efficient with your document building. The course would be ideal for people working in an industry environment or freelancing from home.

Entry Requirements

This course requires a solid understanding of computers, importing, locating and opening files on a PC platform and a basic knowledge of the InDesign software. It is also required that students have a working knowledge of the internet.

This course would be suitable for students who have completed a beginner course in Indesign or have previous knowledge of the Indesign Program.

Student Instructions

Students are required to bring a notepad, pen and pencil. A memory stick/USB flash drive for saving and storing your work to take saved files between home and the course.

Topics

• detailed page layout and formatting techniques

Career Prospects

Not applicable.

Delivery Style

This course is designed to cater to the individual learners need. It is predominantly self-paced with hands on facilitator instruction and assistance.

Indesign runs almost identically on Mac or PC platform, however it is not compulsory for you have the program to complete this course.

Outcomes

Students will gain a solid understanding of the InDesign CS5 page layout software package and gain knowledge in prepress print requirements, correct file size and formats, as well as good graphic design elements and principles. This course is an introductory course, aimed at the introductory level, which will give you a sound understanding of the software used within the graphic design/advertising industry