Name of Workshop: Story Telling with Smart Phones (Video)

Workshop Description: Video is an essential vehicle for communication in the creative industry. This workshop explores the art of visual storytelling and provides an overview of the technical foundation in how to effectively use a smart phone like a camera and use other tools like lighting

Name of Workshop: Story Telling with Smart Phones (Video)

Workshop Description: Video is an essential vehicle for communication in the creative industry. This workshop explores the art of visual storytelling and provides an overview of the technical foundation in how to effectively use a smart phone like a camera and use other tools like lighting to convey the story being told. The workshop also examines the art of photography and visual media, and how the art form as evolved into the smartphone. The students will learn technical skills to create images and videos with current technology.

Workshop Learning Outcomes:

Success completion on this workshop will enable the student to:

• Understand how to produce a video or short film
• Tell a story visually
• Employ camera work creatively
• Employ basic lighting to set a mood within a story
• Prepare video footage for editing

Name of Workshop: The Fundamentals of DJ'ing

Total Hours: 1 hour

Workshop Description: This fundamental workshop delivers an applied and hands-on approach to Djing and music creation relevant to the current music marketplace. The students will learn to construct and perform a variety of DJ “sets” and techniques using popular music and platforms

Name of Workshop: The Fundamentals of DJ'ing

Total Hours: 1 hour

Workshop Description: This fundamental workshop delivers an applied and hands-on approach to Djing and music creation relevant to the current music marketplace. The students will learn to construct and perform a variety of DJ “sets” and techniques using popular music and platforms such as Spotify, Soundcloud, Apple Music and Youtube. This workshop will explain the essential components of a “set” that include beat matching, rhythms, sampling, groove looping and audio effects by analyzing both classic rhythmic and music theory and DJ programing exercises. Students will also become familiar with creating and manipulating DJ “sets” with digital software DJ platforms and instruments within an iphone/smart phone and iPad/tablet.

Workshop Outcomes:

Successful completion of this workshop will enable the student to:

-Describe beat matching, programing, looping, audio effects and sampling. -Explain and illustrate the fundamental elements of contemporary DJ theory and composition. -Compose and arrange DJ “sets” with a smart phone, iPad, laptop computers, software instruments and IOS applications.

Name of Workshop: Expanding Creativity - Through Improvisational Music

Total Hours: 2

Workshop Description: This appreciation workshop uses a practical approach to teaching improvisational music. Students “Do Not Need To Be Musicians” to take this workshop. The basic concepts that will be explored are: improvising grooves as a group, improvising

Name of Workshop: Expanding Creativity - Through Improvisational Music

Total Hours: 2

Workshop Description: This appreciation workshop uses a practical approach to teaching improvisational music. Students “Do Not Need To Be Musicians” to take this workshop. The basic concepts that will be explored are: improvising grooves as a group, improvising melodies and harmony, soloing, conducting improvisations, exploration of musical parameters (rhythm, dynamics, textural improvisation, articulation and harmony) and improvisation from non-musical sources (words, visual cues, emotions, movement). Each individual workshop is improvised based on the needs of the group and the lessons that spontaneously occur. The students will use these concepts to analyze and focus on their relationships to work, art and everyday life to recognize their own creativity. The students will perform evaluations and apply constructive criticism. (This workshop is a four part series offering)

Workshop Learning Outcomes:

Successful completion of this workshop will enable the student to:

• Discover and strengthen awareness of improvisational impulses and expand knowledge of how to express them.
• Analyze and examine fundamental aspects of music, art and improvisation.
• Employee and create individual/group awareness in improvisational and musical possibilities.
• Discuss and develop a basic common musical and verbal language.
• Demonstrate the skills necessary to use all of the above in the spontaneous creation of music, art, work and life skills.

Name of Workshop: Foundations in Record Making

Total Hours: 2

Workshop Description: This foundation workshop explains how to make a modern record from beginning to end and illustrates current and creative “DIY” audio production techniques based on traditional recording theory and practices. This workshop provides the students with an opportunity to

Name of Workshop: Foundations in Record Making

Total Hours: 2

Workshop Description: This foundation workshop explains how to make a modern record from beginning to end and illustrates current and creative “DIY” audio production techniques based on traditional recording theory and practices. This workshop provides the students with an opportunity to observe a professional in the field in the art of record making. The students will focus on the key elements in how music is recorded, mixed, mastered, produced and delivered to market. A brief history of record making and music production will be examined as well. The 3 hour workshsp goal is for the students to observe the instructor in making a digital modern record.

Workshop Learning Outcomes:

Successful completion of this workshop will enable the student to:

• Analyze The Essential Elements In The Record Making Process.
• Identify Key Production Techniques: Recording, Overdubbing, Mixing, Mastering And Delivering To Market.
• Discover Musical And Emotional Performance Techniques And What Makes Recordings Stand Out Among Others.
• Discover And Analyze The Current Music Industry Landscape
• Identify Marketing And Fan Base Building With Social Media