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Two-day course: 10.00 - 16.30 each day

Aim

The use of video in education has ceased to be an occasional occurrence, but the quality of videos has not kept pace with their popularity. This course is intended to instil basic competence in the many areas of knowledge that are needed to produce good video work. A hands-on approach is taken, such that during the two days of learning about video techniques the participants will actually produce two short videos. All equipment and facilities will be supplied.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a two-day course. Course fees are as follows:

• £275 for participants from UK Higher or Further Education
• £325 for participants from government, charities, libraries, galleries or museums
• Prices for all other participants are available on request
  

Audience

Anyone wishing to create videos or to supervise the creation of videos. This workshop assumes no prior experience, although knowledge of camcorders, audio recording and video editing is useful.

Content

• Introduction and overview to video
• When to use video and when to use audio
• Equipment
• Video workflow
• Planning the video
• Camera techniques
• Microphone techniques
• Lighting techniques
• Getting the most out of the subject
• Shooting a lecture
• Shooting an interview
• Shooting a monitor
• Basic editing techniques
• Finishing and delivery

Learning objectives

By the end of the course attendees should be able to:

• Plan a video project
• Competently use a video camera
• Understand the fundamentals of lighting for video
• Understand the fundamentals of audio recording for video
• Understand the fundamentals of editing digital video
• Create and deliver a video of a lecture
• Carry out an interview and create and deliver a video of it

Workshop dates and locations

• Wednesday 13 October 2010 and 14 October 2010
  Two-day course: 10.00 - 16.30 each day
  ILRT, 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol, BS8 1HH
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• Tuesday 16 November 2010 and 17 November 2010
  Two-day course: 10.00 - 16.30 each day
  ILRT, 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol, BS8 1HH
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Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30

Aim

Analogue media deteriorates at an alarming rate and few digitisation projects can hope to retrieve great signals from aged collections. In order to archive maximum usefulness some basic digital remastering is often required. Fortunately, today's digital tools mean we can easily remove unwanted 'defects' whether hisses and scratches from shellac discs or the distorted colours of old videotapes

N.B. This course covers digital restoration of audio-visual resources only. It does not cover restoration of still images

Audience

This course is aimed at digitisation departments and specially funded digitisation projects. It is expected that attendees will have collection management or technical backgrounds although the content has many other potential applications.

Content

• Introduction to digital restoration
• The anatomy of analogue media
• Examples of common analogue 'defects'
• Practical restoration tasks
• To restore or not to restore?
• Remastering in the digitisation workflow

Workshop dates and locations

• Thursday 16 December 2010
  Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30
  ILRT, 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol, BS8 1HH
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Tags: analogue collections | digitisation | restoration | sound recordings | video

Essential Photoshop Skills

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Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30

Aim

This course will get you up and running with Adobe Photoshop. You will learn key concepts and skills to enable you to understand and start using this exciting application with confidence.

Audience

This workshop is aimed at those who require basic image manipulation and optimisation techniques for editing images. It is assumed that attendees have no prior understanding or experience of digital imaging or image editing applications and it is therefore a good choice for people starting out with Photoshop.

Content

• Basic digital imaging theory and terminology
• Introduction to Photoshop's interface, toolbox and palettes
• Create and save documents choosing appropriate file formats
• Utilising Photoshop's image management features
• Working with layers
• Creating and transforming graphics
• Understanding Photoshop's selection tools
• Combining multiple images
• Text features
• Basic colour correction

Workshop dates and locations

• Tuesday 23 November 2010
  Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30
  ILRT, 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol, BS8 1HH
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Tags: image editing | photoshop | software | training

Digital Photography - Taking Control of your SLR

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Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30

Aim

This action packed course looks in depth at using a digital SLR's creative controls to put you in charge of your photography. You will also have plenty of hands-on practice with the camera and be shown how to effectively illuminate 2D and 3D objects using tungsten and fluorescent studio lighting.

Audience

This course is aimed at anyone who wishes to build on basic or existing digital photography skills and knowledge.

Content

• Using the aperture and shutter controls of a digital SLR to improve your photography
• Understanding white balance
• Colour management
• Camera file formats, including RAW
• Lighting small 2D and 3D objects
• Identifying and resolving image quality issues

Workshop dates and locations

• Friday 05 November 2010
  Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30
  ILRT, 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol, BS8 1HH
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Tags: cameras | colour management | photography | training

Colour Management

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Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30

Aim

Effective colour management is vital within the digital workflow and anyone working with digital images should understand and be employing the core principles. This training course introduces colour management theory and ‘good practice’ to ensure that you understand how to achieve consistent and accurate colour between applications, platforms, and devices.

Audience

Anyone needing to know how to achieve and maintain colour consistency between devices. This workshop uses Adobe Photoshop and some previous experience in capturing digital images and using image editors is recommended.

Content

• Introduction and overview to digital colour
• Describing colour - colour spaces and colour gamut
• Open loop and closed loop colour management
• Using ICC device profiles
• Calibration and characterisation with ICC profiles
• Colour transformations and rendering intents
• Assigning new ICC profiles to imported images
• Using profiles to soft-proof images for printing
• Colour calibration on the Web
• Other approaches to consistent colour

Workshop dates and locations

• Tuesday 02 November 2010
  Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30
  ILRT, 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol, BS8 1HH
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Tags: colour management | image editing | photography | training | workflow

Digital Photography - Getting Started with your SLR

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Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30

Aim

This entry level course will provide you with an understanding of the techniques and skills needed to produce great quality images from a digital SLR camera with ease. Some illuminating background theory will be supported by hands-on practical exercises in photography.

Audience

Anyone new to or wanting to familiarise themselves with a digital SLR camera. No prior experience is required. The workshop uses Adobe Photoshop and cameras will be provided.

Content

• How a digital camera works
• Problems and work-arounds with the digital camera
• Introduction to colour, calibration and white balance
• Basic camera skills - photographing people, places and objects
• Essential lighting skills
• Storing images in the camera and transferring them to a computer
• Introduction to image optimisation
• Working with image tagging (metadata)
• Choosing the right camera - feature guide and comparison
• Extending the functionality - video and panorama

Workshop dates and locations

• Tuesday 26 October 2010
  Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30
  ILRT, 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol, BS8 1HH
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Tags: cameras | photography | training

Building a Departmental Image Collection

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Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30

Aim

This course will provide you with a hands-on experience of creating, managing and delivering a departmental image collection. You will acquire the foundation knowledge required to make well informed decisions about building an image library. You will also have the opportunity to discuss and share information with people from the HE/FE/Cultural sector facing similar issues in order to help you develop practical solutions.

Audience

This workshop is aimed at those considering building an image collection, especially academics, librarians or technicians. You will not need any prior experience of building image collections but some reading and research prior to the workshop will be required.

Content

• Planning a departmental image collection
• Preparing your images for inclusion in the collection
• Metadata: methods and standards for describing images
• File management considerations
• Using a system to manage and deliver your collection (Extensis Portfolio 8.5 will be used as an example)

Workshop dates and locations

• Tuesday 19 October 2010
  Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30
  ILRT, 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol, BS8 1HH
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Tags: digital collections | metadata | software | training

Copyright and Digital Media

Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30

Aim

This informative and stimulating course is run by a leading expert in copyright. It looks in-depth at how copyright and other legal issues impact upon digital media and it will enable you to develop practical approaches to clearing and managing those rights within your own collections.

Audience

Relevant for both owners and users of copyright-protected digital media. It will suit those involved with managing or clearing rights within a digital media workflow, learning and teaching applications, or administrative and marketing purposes. Also relevant for individuals who simply want to learn about copyright and digital media in general.

Content

• Overview of the legal landscape
• Nature of digital media and why copyright is important
• Relevance of digital licensing schemes (e.g. CLA, DACS, PRS and Creative Commons)
• How copyright fits within a digitisation workflow
• Strategies for clearing rights in digital media, including using the Internet
• Documenting and communicating digital rights
• Practical exercises using basic technology to protect and manage rights
• Pragmatic, risk-managed approach to making digital media available

Workshop dates and locations

• New dates to be confirmed. Please contact us to express an interest in future dates.

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Tags: copyright | cla | training | workflow

Advanced Techniques in Digital Image Capture

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Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30

Aim

This course looks at the technical background behind, and procedures for, image capture and optimisation delivered through hands-on activities. This workshop will teach you how to produce the correct end product for your intended purpose and teach you the easy 'science' of scanning to remove the guesswork from your image capture.

Audience

Those with some basic experience and knowledge of digital capture. Particularly aimed at those involved at the front line of digitisation projects and to teaching and research staff who wish to improve the quality of their captured images. This workshop uses scanners, digital SLR cameras and Adobe Photoshop as an image editor.

Content

• Calibration in practice
• Handling analogue originals
• Review of capture devices including cameras and scanners
• Getting the best out of your scanning software
• Line art, greyscale and colour scanning
• Image resolution and calculating scanning resolution
• The challenge of good colour management
• Image optimisation - correcting and resizing images
• Appropriate image processing for the purpose
• Speeding up your system

Workshop dates and locations

• Thursday 07 October 2010
  Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30
  ILRT, 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol, BS8 1HH
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Tags: cameras | colour management | digitisation | image editing | photography | photoshop | scanning | training

Essential Techniques in Digital Image Capture

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Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30

Aim

This entry level course provides an easy to understand theoretical overview of digital images and image capture combined with practical exercises using both a scanner and digital SLR camera for those getting started with creating digital images.

Audience

Anyone needing the foundation skills to undertake basic scanning and digital imaging. This workshop uses Adobe Photoshop as an image editor.

Content

• Investigating the digital image
• Handling originals safely
• Measuring image size
• Scanning photographs and graphics
• Introduction to scanners and digital cameras
• The need for calibration
• Basic image optimisation
• File formats
• Saving and naming your file

Workshop dates and locations

• Wednesday 06 October 2010
  Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30
  ILRT, 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol, BS8 1HH
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Tags: cameras | digitisation | image editing | photography | photoshop | scanning | training

Introduction to Image Metadata

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Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30

Aim

This course is designed specifically to help you consider how to effectively incorporate metadata into the fabric of your image collection, through explanation, discussion and practical activities.

Audience

Anyone new to describing and cataloguing images. Some previous knowledge of metadata will be useful but not essential.

Content

• Importance of metadata for image collections
• Choosing appropriate standards for your collection
• Metadata for different communities (e.g. museums, libraries, archives)
• Metadata for different purposes (e.g. retrieval, administration, preservation)
• Different types of metadata (e.g. categories, controlled vocabularies, subject classifications)
• Introduction to storing image metadata (e.g. databases, image tagging, XML)
• Introduction to some alternative approaches (e.g. content-based retrieval, user-created metadata)
• Critical review of real world examples

Workshop dates and locations

• Tuesday 05 October 2010
  Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30
  ILRT, 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol, BS8 1HH
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• Tuesday 07 December 2010
  Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30
  ILRT, 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol, BS8 1HH
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Tags: digital collections | digital preservation | metadata | training

Digitising Analogue Audio

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Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30

Aim

To meet the skills required by libraries, archives and institutions to digitise their existing analogue collections, this course aims to provide a complete introduction to the theory and practicalities of successfully digitising analogue audio resources. The workshop will provide hands-on tuition alongside presenting theoretical knowledge with group discussions of topics surrounding the digital lifecycle, in a digitisation project based context. The workshop has been designed as a precursor for our more technical, media specific training modules. The practical elements will involve digitising audiocassette tapes as example media.

Audience

This course is aimed at those wishing to embark on digitising their audio, including librarians, archivists, and support staff. The course is also aimed at project managers wishing to understand the technical aspects of digitisation. It is aimed at those with little or no previous knowledge of the subject area, however a good general understanding of IT is required.

Content

• Theory of analogue and digital audio
• Selection and identification of media
• Equipping and preparing a digitisation system
• Digital capture and basic editing techniques
• Quality control issues, metadata and standards
• Considerations for delivery

Workshop dates and locations

• Wednesday 22 September 2010
  Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30
  ILRT, 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol, BS8 1HH
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Tags: analogue collections | audio editing | digitisation

Audio Production: Recording Lectures, Seminars, Interviews and Podcasts

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Full-day course: 10.00 - 17.00

Aim

This course will provide you with the knowledge and skills to record and produce recordings of spoken word audio, with specific emphasis being placed upon the recording of lectures, seminars and events. You will learn the basic concepts of recording technologies and through practical exercises you will learn how to confidently apply these to practical situations. The workshop will also introduce you to ideas for delivering new media such as podcasting, and suggest methods for managing your digital recordings.

Audience

This workshop is for those with an interest in producing audio resources along with staff embarking on recording projects, and non-technical staff who wish to gain knowledge in order to oversee recording projects. The workshop assumes no previous knowledge of recording systems or audio theory some basic IT understanding is desired as the workshop will go into some technical depth.

Content

• Basic principles of digital audio and terminology
• Introduction and set up of basic recording systems
• Troubleshoot basic common technical issues
• Digital audio capture
• Production techniques
• Basic software editing functions
• Delivery of media
• Creation of 'podcast ready' material
• Creating simple technical metadata records

Workshop dates and locations

• Tuesday 21 September 2010
  Full-day course: 10.00 - 17.00
  ILRT, 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol, BS8 1HH
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Tags: audio editing | podcasts | software | sound recordings | training

Building Effective Screencasts

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Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30

Aim

Screencasting - publishing and sharing recordings of on-screen computer activity, coupled with other media (voice-over, video etc) - continues to increase in popularity. Whether you want to narrate a presentation, demonstrate the use of software, or record and share your screen for any other reason, a screencast may be the answer.

This practical one-day workshop provides an opportunity to learn how to maximise the value of screencasting in presentation, demonstration and digital storytelling for teaching and learning. Screencasts are flexible tools suitable for a range of learning scenarios and digital media types. They can provide a sophisticated learning experience, incorporating slides, images, video, audio, screen annotation, subtitles, interactive quizzes and more.

Audience

The workshop is designed for up to 10 people. Previous experience of screencasting is not necessary, just an interest in developing new skills and techniques for creating teaching and learning resources.

Content

Covering the essentials of the screencast production workflow, workshop participants will learn

• Techniques to identify where screencast use is appropriate
• How to plan for production and use
• Screencast design
• Practical skills in how to produce effective and engaging screencasts
• How to package screencasts in formats suitable for their audience

Workshop dates and locations

• Tuesday 12 October 2010
  Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30
  ILRT, 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol, BS8 1HH
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• Thursday 02 December 2010
  Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30
  ILRT, 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol, BS8 1HH
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• Please note the course on 16 Sep 2010 is now full. Places available on 12 Oct 2010 or 02 Dec 2010

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Tags: screen capture | screencast | teaching | training | video

Digitising Analogue Video Recordings

Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30

Aim

Over the past fifty years the videotape has grown from an obscure television production tool into a vibrant and vital social document. But videotape has proved to be a fragile long-term medium and its contents are at risk. This risk can only be mitigated through careful planning. This workshop will investigate the challenges associated with the preservation of videotapes. Through practical exercises, we will look at how digitising materials to archival standards can both safeguard and help develop a collection. We will also look at the challenge of creating a sustainable digital collection. Quality assurance procedures and best practice will be referred to throughout.

Audience

The workshop is targeted at the non-specialist with some understanding of IT but little audiovisual experience. Attendees may be caretakers to a small number of videos or may be involved in larger, specially funded projects. Attendees may also be wishing to gain an overview of the process prior to outsourcing video digitisation work.

Content

• What is a video tape and how does it work?
• What is a digital video file?
• What can go wrong when digitising video?
• Quality control measures
• Identification and assessment of videotapes
• Selecting digitisation equipment
• Everyday calibration of equipment
• Optimising tape playback
• Digital capture of videos
• Creating a simple technical metadata record
• The challenges of digital preservation

Workshop dates and locations

• New dates to be confirmed. Please contact us to express an interest in future dates.

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Tags: analogue collections | digital preservation | digitisation | training | video

Scanning with the CLA Licence

Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30

Aim

This course provides a thorough practical overview of how to digitise images and text from print-based materials. You will use a desktop scanner and related technology to effectively enable you to leverage the rights granted to you by the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) scanning licence.

Audience

This course is particularly aimed at those with little or no digitisation skills in order to prepare them for implementing the CLA scanning licence. However, this workshop will be relevant for anyone requiring fundamental skills in capturing text and images using a scanner and using OCR technology.

Content

• What is the CLA scanning licence?
• What you can and can't do under the CLA licence
• Buying a scanner - what to look for
• Scanning basics - understanding how your scanner works
• Creating PDFs
• Using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software
• Isolating images from text based materials
• Optimising scanned images for use on the web or in presentation software

Workshop dates and locations

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Tags: copyright | cla | optical character recognition | scanning | training

Digitising Grooved Discs and Open Reel Audio

Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30

Aim

This course is designed to meet the requirements of staff in libraries, archives and other related institutions needing to digitise existing analogue collections. The course builds on our Digitising Analogue Audio workshop, by introducing a range of legacy audio media and examining them in more detail.

The workshop will provide the opportunity to both handle these media and configure the equipment needed for their successful playback. A recommended, pragmatic workflow will be followed.

Essential theoretical and interesting historical information is included which together contribute to understanding: the development of audio recording technologies; how to handle and best reproduce each medium; how to digitise each medium to archival standard.

Audience

This course is aimed at those digitising audio collections - including librarians, archivists, and support staff - who wish to gain more media-specific audio knowledge. It will be of interest to those involved in digitising all types of acoustic and magnetic media, including tapes and grooved discs, and those with an interest in audio recording history. It will also help project designers identify the scope of their audio digitisation workflow.

Content

• History of Recorded Sound
• Reel-to-reel tape - Identification, care and playback
• Grooved Media - Identification, care and playback
• Example workflows - creating Digital Objects from Analogue Artefacts
• Introduction to digital restoration

Workshop dates and locations

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Tags: analogue collections | digitisation | restoration

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