Category: Free Content

Live Crowdfunding Workshop Hosted by Pozible

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Sign up for a  free Crowdfunding Workshop at Fishburners Ultimo.There’s limited spots so make sure you register.

Presented by Pozible’s very own cofounder, Alan, you’ll learn everything you need to run a successful campaign on Pozible;

  • Building a community
  • Communication through design
  • Making a clear video
  • Telling your story
  • Conceiving great rewards

At the end you’ll have the opportunity to ask any questions you may have and network with like minded creators.

So drop on by!

Thursday, December 1st, 6:30pm.

Fishburners – Basement Idea space

608 Harris St, Ultimo

Click here to register.

Post Production Workflow 101

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Here’s a good little video introducing the post production process from ingesting files to packaging the final deliverables from the master edit.

I’ve also included a flow chart graphic. Good luck to all students putting together final assessments/major projects for MAP over the next fortnight!

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Reminder: Free Access to Lynda.com Courses

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Vitale Digital Media Lab in the Weigle Information Commons, Van Pelt Library.

Many students aren’t aware that one of the perks of being a UTS student is your free access to all course content over on Lynda.com. This includes specified programs like’Become a Producer’ as well as program tutorials for all the Adobe Creative Cloud Suite, DaVinci and Avid software.

To access: go to Lynda.com. Select to sign in under an organisation, put in: www.uts.edu.au and you’ll be redirected to the UTS login, where you’ll gain access!

Getting Started in Virtual Reality Using Unreal Engine

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Epic Games are hosting a new FREE  Virtual Reality starter session! It includes  a live training tutorial where participants will learn the basics of creating VR projects and VR best practices in the  Unreal Engine platform.

This SAE sponsored presentation assumes participants have 3D game development expertise, but no prior experience with UE4. You will learn the basics of creating a VR project from starter content using the UE4 Blueprint visual scripting system.

Topics they’ll cover include: project setup, VR peripheral setup, building materials for VR, VR character setup, creating AI, navigation, spawning enemies and configuring UI for VR projects. They will also cover design principles and VR performance optimisation techniques.

Schedule:

  • 6:30 PM  – Lecture begins
  • 8:00 PM  – Break
  • 8:15 PM  – Lecture continues
  • 9:30 PM  – Lecture concludes
WHEN: Wednesday, September 21, 2016 from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM (AEST) – Add to Calendar
WHERE: SAE Creative Media Institute – 1/11 York St, Sydney, NSW 2000 – View Map

Free Sound Masterclass at AFTRS

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OzDocs, the Australian Documentary Forum are presenting a FREE, that’s right, free one-night course which will showcase the new recording technologies and essential practical advice from four award-winning experts.

The speakers will be helping to answer the questions; what are the pitfalls, solutions and latest tools to help you make a better film?

This includes:

• Oscar winning David White (Mad Max Fury Road), sound editor and mixer, reveals the consequences of poor sound for post production and solutions.
• Lemac’s audio specialist, Ross Boyer demonstrates new generation technologies and equipment from his toyshop.
• With clips of challenging situations, sound recordists Leo Sullivan and Philip Myers discuss practical issues for crews, advice and techniques for capturing good location sound.

Date: 12 July

Time: 6PM for 6:30PM Start (ends around 9PM)

Location: AFTRS- Entertainment Quarters – 130 Bent Street, Moore Park, Sydney

Tickets are available here

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Free Screening: CODE – THIS THURSDAY @5PM

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Pivotal will be hosting the first Sydney screening of the award-winning documentary :”CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap”.

When: Thursday 9th June, 5PM

This thought-provoking documentary shines a light on the lack of female software engineers, both in the workplace and in university and primary school programs. This event includes a screening as well as a panel discussion from highly sought after panelists working in the industry which includes:

> Kate Mckenzie, Chief Operations Officer, Telstra
> Jenine Beekhuyzen, Found of Tech Girls Movement & Author of the books ‘Tech girls are chic, not just geek”
> Robyn Elliott, Chief Information Officer, Fairfax Media
> Valeria Ignatieva, Co-Founder, Diverse City Careers
> Cath Jones, Developer, Digital Transformation Officer
> Daphne Chong, Technical Lead Developer, Australian Broadcasting Corporation & Co-organiser of Women Who Code

EVENT AGENDA:

5.00pm – 5.30pm        Registration & Networking
5:30pm – 5.45pm        Opening and Welcome
5:45pm – 7.00pm        Movie Screening
7.00pm – 8.00pm        Panel & Audience Discussion
8.00pm – 8.30pm        Networking

REGISTER FOR FREE HERE

Awesome Free Material

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I’m sure some of you have heard of this already, but the Indie Film Hustle Podcast is really a must-listen-to. It’s free and a new episode is provided weekly. You can subscribe through iTunes and other podcast streaming services. The information is raw, candid and honest and the tips and guide to filmmaking is relevant to students who will be working on low-budget productions. The episodes which deal with entering into film festivals and other distribution platforms is particularly timely for those currently wrapping up MAP Major Project.

There are also film courses and info packs available over on Alex’s website:

CLICK HERE

Here’s a link to the latest episode that discusses film festival hacks:

IFH 067: Film Festival Secrets – How to Crack the Festival Code