UBC Continuing Studies
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Flash for the Web

This course introduces the basic skills required to build animated graphical content for the Web. Beginning with an overview of the interface and tools of Flash, you progress through the steps of building a simple Flash-based website. You work along with the instructor during class, and are expected to dedicate between-class time to complete hands-on practice exercises. Assessment is based on t......
 

Cascading style sheets (CSS) have become an essential component in the development and management of web sites and CSS editors are now incorporated into many web development products. CSS is used for the presentational aspects of a web site, leaving HTML to handle the content (text) separately and can create effects that cannot be achieved in HTML alone. With CSS, a single style sheet can be ap......
 

In this hands-on course you are introduced to Illustrator, a versatile postscript software package for creating professional graphics, illustrations, logos and typographic design. Through exercises and projects, explore the features that make Illustrator the most popular vector-based graphics application in the world of design. This courseware is suitable for both Windows and Mac platforms. ...
 

Discover interactive media and learn to create a functional web site using Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Dreamweaver and Adobe Flash. This three-week introductory intensive is for anyone wishing to learn how to create graphically rich web sites with animation and interactivity. The final project involves creating a dynamic web site. The program includes instruction, hands-on activities and supervised ......
 

Learn how to use entertainment industry-specific software to create schedules and budgets for your production. Break down scripts for production scheduling and learn how this impacts budgeting. Examine globals, fringes, library, sets, location and multi-currency. This course gives you a basic foundation in EP Budgeting and EP Scheduling using the latest version of EP software, with 10% of the c......
 

No matter how big or how small the budget, every film requires production management. The production manager coordinates, facilitates and supervises the pre-production period, production period and wrap of any film unit. Topics discussed include supervision of off-set logistics, day-to-day production decisions, location requirements, layout schedules, building the budget, working with children ......
 

This course focuses on legal issues that arise in the development, financing, production and distribution of a feature film or TV series. Topics include contracts, copyright, chain of title, intellectual property agreements, errors and omissions insurance (clearances and defamation), international treaty co-productions, music in films, labour and employment issues, tax considerations, completio......
 

Designed for those without a background in film production, this course explores how film and television productions are made internationally and within Canada. Learn what it takes to get an idea into production for the international market. Issues such as consolidation of the marketplace and its effects on the industry, co-productions, financing incentives internationally, and digital innovati......
 

Learn what is new and exciting in film, television and new media production and post-production. Topics include film and video acquisition, procedures for dailies including new HD formats, picture editing and workflow, sound and sound editing, advances in cinematography, lighting, visual effects and production design. Transferring to different formats and using cost-saving techniques enables yo......
 

Turn "no" into "yes." Learn the components of the film and television industry value chain. Explore the funding opportunities for independent filmmaking in Canada. Learn how to approach these funders with professional proposals and how to manage the ongoing relationship, study typical financing scenarios and examine recent developments in international film financing. Topics......
 

Motion picture and television marketing is the most exciting, immediate, unpredictable and rewarding vocation any marketer can choose. From understanding and developing audiences to creating eye-catching promotional artwork, it is all about putting paying customers into theatre seats and buying-eyes in front of television and computer screens. Topics include sales windows, development of the ma......
 

In response to the expanding interest in BC’s dynamic film industry, this course has been developed as an introductory awareness and education program for people wanting to work within the sector. Specifically, it is designed to provide insight into the industry and how it works, encourage self-awareness for suitability, outline the screening process for entry-level positions, provide func......
 

Learn how to brainstorm project tasks and organize project teams at critical phases in a project schedule: kicking off a project phase, taking over an existing project, refining a plan, planning a project wrap-up or mapping the steps in a methodology. Learn tips and techniques to simplify capturing and managing your plan using Microsoft Project. Steps covered include entering tasks and dependen......
 

Improve team productivity by learning to assign resources to tasks, standardize resource definitions with a shared resource pool, analyze team workloads, generate resource-based schedules, manage resource assignments, calculate task costs and develop project budgets using Microsoft Project. The course is held in a lab....
 

Start projects on the right track by coordinating key front-end activities. Learn how to define project objectives, timeframes and constraints; negotiate project scope, resources, schedules, budgets and contracts; analyze risks that threaten project success; reduce delivery schedules and project budgets; obtain approval with a business case; establish change control procedures to reduce scope c......
 

Reduce project cost and delivery schedules with innovative design strategies and learn to estimate project work effort and cost based on your deliverable specifications. This course shows you how to create clear specifications of the project deliverables in the feasibility phase, then elaborate and define them during the requirements and design phases of a project. Select delivery methods compa......
 

Improve team performance to speed project completion. Use turbo brainstorming to open communication channels, share knowledge, reduce disconnects, speed decision making, build trust, expedite the brainstorming phase of team formation and build commitment. Learn how to encourage initiative, empower novice team members, challenge teams with stretch goals, develop creative solutions and resolve co......
 

Reporting project progress is a key component in communicating with management. This course covers customizing and standardizing progress reports across multiple projects, capturing actual progress, creating new reports with tables and views, automating repetitive reports with macros, and using project data on the Web in word processing documents and for graphical reporting. The course is held ......
 

Deepen your understanding of Microsoft Project with this one-day, hands-on session. You are introduced to a wealth of new techniques and shortcuts that make use of MS Project’s many built-in features. Learn to customize views, tables, filters and groups, create custom fields (including formulas and advanced calculations), PERT (3-point) estimating, create and link to a common resource pool......
 

Learning Microsoft Project can be a challenge, even for experienced project managers. This course offers a comprehensive hands-on introduction, and incorporates tips and techniques the instructor has developed over 20 years using this software. Gain insight into its effective use and learn how to avoid common problems others have experienced with this complex, yet powerful and flexible tool. Th......
 

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