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DCTV is a non-profit media arts center in NYC that offers affordable workshops, production equipment, and space rentals for independent filmmakers. They provide a variety of hands-on digital filmmaking and media arts workshops in a convenient and accessible training facility.
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Log Footage: Post
DCTV @ 87 Lafayette St, New York, NY
You’re working with footage shot in Log or another high dynamic range. How will this affect your post-production workflow? While HDR footage can mean extra steps along the way, it can also save you time and energy, salvaging detail in your final image.. Get an overview of several ways to adjust Log and other HDR footage in post, whether quickly using LUTs or more in-depth grading with Resolve or After Effects. This is a Production workshop...
$100
Copyright Basics and Fair Use
DCTV @ 87 Lafayette St, New York, NY
Copyright Basics and Fair Use is the first of two workshops on copyright and licensing that you can take together, or separately. In this first workshop, we explore the history of intellectual property and specifically copyright law, as a starting point to understand license terms, the public domain, and fair use. When do you need to get permission, and pay licensing fees? Are there exceptions to copyright protection? Learn when text, image and...
$95
Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro
DCTV @ 87 Lafayette St, New York, NY
Get your hands on Blackmagic’s URSA Mini Pro, the sought-after digital cinema camera that shoots native 4K and has up to 15 stops of dynamic range. It provides compressed RAW recording (including in the open, license-free Blackmagic RAW) at 3:1 and 4:1 compression ratios to save space while retaining post-production flexibility. And with built-in ND filters, an external control section, and user-interchangeable lens mounts, there’s plenty to...
$60
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Encrypt All
DCTV @ 87 Lafayette St, New York, NY
As part of production protocol, physical equipment is never left unattended or else kept under lock and key. The same prudence is needed for the audiovisual media that you capture and for your digital communications with people involved in your production. Encryption securely converts your data content into a code, keeping your media confidential. In Encrypt All, documentarians and journalists will learn how to efficiently protect their footage,...
$55
Cultivating Characters
DCTV @ 87 Lafayette St, New York, NY
Through capturing their day-to-day actions, including retelling anecdotes, sharing responses to the world around them, and other spontaneous moments, your documentary’s characters reveal themselves to your film’s audience. How best can you engage with them and develop your filmmaking process to further illustrate the story you’re hoping to tell? Via writing prompts and critical social discourse, gain tools to unfurl the magic in your...
$55
Negotiate Your Contract
DCTV @ 87 Lafayette St, New York, NY
Among the visible and invisible considerations that frame each “work-for-hire” contract, freelancers must partake in the delicate dance of negotiating contract terms and payment, reflecting on and determining one’s professional value, while creating mutually beneficial agreements with clients. Explore these soft skills to ensure that you confidently communicate a precise scope of work with fair contract terms. Topics include: Rates (industry-standard,...
$50
Direct with Non-Actors
DCTV @ 87 Lafayette St, New York, NY
The decision to use non-professional actors, whether stylistic or budgetary, often lends unparalleled realism to a film. This workshop explores methods and techniques, from casting and coaching to blocking and improvising, as well as ethical considerations to weigh the challenges and rewards of working with talent who have little to no experience in front of the camera. Topics include: Scouting Talent Differences Between Actors and First-Time...
$50
Impact Producing
DCTV @ 87 Lafayette St, New York, NY
You’re making a film on an issue you care deeply about. How do you connect your film with the right audience and use the momentum of your story to help inspire change and action? This workshop will introduce this increasingly popular role in documentary filmmaking, and cover several examples of ways impact producing has benefitted both a film and the community it reaches. This is a Producing clinic that will offer invaluable knowledge from a...
$60
Gaining Life Story Rights
DCTV @ 87 Lafayette St, New York, NY
When committing to an indelible personal story for your film, when might acquiring a Life Rights Agreement be prudent? In this workshop, understand the permissions and limitations that this type of legal document provides. Key to a story’s marketability is exclusivity, and this agreement may or may not provide you with extensive protections and access to a subject. Traverse the complex legal proceedings that will determine your permissions to encapsulate...
$45
Production Week: Lunar New Year Parade
Designed for those seeking an extensive introduction to the world of digital production, this comprehensive hands-on workshop combines content from our Camera, Lighting and Audio Fundamentals workshops, and then after a dedicated session to prep, takes your new skills out into the streets! This special Production Week culminates in filming at Chinatown’s Lunar New Year Parade, practicing shooting on the run by recording person-on-the-street interviews...
Final Cut Pro (Online)
DCTV @ 87 Lafayette St, New York, NY
Apple’s Final Cut Pro X is a powerful, self-contained editing software that is popular among budding to professional editors. Learn basic system setup, how to create user profiles, navigate its visual interface, import media files, sync and modify sound, and create titles. This workshop provides the foundational knowledge to start editing in Final Cut Pro. Materials: You will need a computer or other device that can connect to the internet,...
Online Workshop: Documenting in Quarantine
Do you want to document your community coming together to support vulnerable neighbors? Or interview friends around the world to compare their experiences? Or maybe make a video journal of your personal insights on being at home? At this fraught time, there are so many stories to tell at all levels – stories about governance, science, or community, about the people who are impacted, at risk, or doing their best to help. With this online workshop,...
DIY Stop Motion Animation (Online)
DCTV @ 87 Lafayette St, New York, NY
Bring your creative vision to life using stop motion animation! This workshop will cover pre-production, production, and post-production with a focus on low budget, DIY handmade animation methods. Execute several short in-class projects practicing a variety of animating techniques and styles. Take the material you shot and add audio elements to make your creations pop. Ta-da! In this workshop, you will create original work, requiring that you work...
Digital Cinematography II
This workshop picks up where Digital Cinematography I leaves off delving deeper into advanced lighting and camera techniques with a focus on the aesthetics of cinematography. Through hands-on exercises and techniques with the Sony FS700, examine the possibilities and limitations of shooting digital video, finding visual style, achieving a filmic look, and composition. This workshop also introduces advanced camera movement techniques through the use...
DaVinci Resolve: Editing
DCTV @ Online Classroom, New York, NY
You’ve heard about color correction with DaVinci Resolve – but did you know it’s also a powerful non-linear editing solution? The Edit Page of DaVinci Resolve will be familiar to users of Premiere and Final Cut 7. If you’re an editor looking to change NLEs, DaVinci Studio has support for 4K footage and multi-user collaboration. And if you’re new to editing in general, the software has a free version with great functionality. So no matter...
Third Cinema (Online)
According to Third Cinema innovators, First Cinema is the Hollywood model, and Second Cinema described European art films that elevated the director as auteur, and Third Cinema encouraged activism and collectivism, inviting the viewer to be an active creator of culture in a way that subverted mainstream filmmaking. With revolutionary roots, this anti-imperialist movement/theory influenced filmmakers of formerly colonized nations and was embraced...
Canon DSLR Video (Online)
Have a Canon DSLR at home, but not sure how to shoot video with it? Get that 35mm film look with these ever-popular still cameras that shoot HD or even 4K video, complete with stellar image quality, adjustable frame rates and customizable manual settings. Whether you've upgraded to the 5D MIV, or want to learn how to take full advantage of the lens selection and manual capabilities of mainstay Canon models, this workshop is for you. Discuss differences...
Open Edit Hours
DCTV @ 87 Lafayette St, New York, NY
Want to practice something you just learned? Want to be in the company of fellow members and a Lab Monitor to support you? Want to work on your project for Docu Intensive or Audio Storytelling: Podcasts and Soundscapes outside the workshop? Open students and available to anyone who has taken a DCTV Workshop within the past year, take advantage of our new Open Edit Hours! Open Edit Hours feature: Your own dedicated 27-inch...
Looking at Lenses (Online)
Whether you’re looking to make your close-ups pop in shallow focus or give your wides the detail they deserve, it’s all about the glass. This workshop will go over related terminology and examples of images produced by a variety of lenses. You’ll learn about lens selection for different cinematic styles and shooting scenarios, and discuss how camera setups relate. This is an online Production workshop at the Extensions level. Topics include:...
Online Office Hours: Interviewing Techniques
Have questions about interview techniques, especially during this time of social distancing? Discuss soft skills (such as how to set a tone, build trust, ask open questions, elicit anecdotes and stories, consider ethics, and listen as an editor) and more technical skills (such as how to work with limitations of this moment like basic equipment, working with natural light and indoor lamps, and helping interviewees create visually-pleasing frames...
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