Silent Movies
Instructor: Jill Wiggins
10 week course, Mondays, March 6 – May 22
Make your own Silent Movie complete with melodramatic acting, black and white video, and special effects to make them look old! Silent movies were over-acted because of the lack of sound. People had to know what was going on so the actors and actresses had to really ham it up! You’ll add titles and player piano music to enhance your movie. Whether you’re an “aspiring filmmaker” or a “drama queen” come and have fun making silent movies. Open to all students.

Mission Impossible
Instructor: Keith Hershberger
9 week course, Tuesdays, March 7 – May 23
This is your mission (should you choose to accept it): steal back the plans for the Doomsday Machine from the criminal mastermind – slay the dragon – break into the high security prison to rescue your friends who are being held captive there. You must use cunning, stealth, and advanced Adobe Photoshop techniques to complete your mission. You will collect the tools you need, take strategic digital photographs, and then create a sequence of images to show action so that the story will play out before your eyes. Students taking this course must have experience in Adobe Photoshop.

Places I’ve Been: An Intro to Photoshop
Instructor: Jill Wiggins
5 week course, Wednesdays: Session 1: March 8 – May 24
Session 2: April 26 – May 24
Photoshop is the foundation program for all creative digital arts. Learn this great program as we edit images we’ll take on our trip to Phipps Conservatory. You will digitally photograph their various constructed environments to use as your backgrounds. Then at the Guild you’ll take separate images of yourself to place in these backgrounds making compositions of your imaginary travels! Open to all students.

Making the Band… literally
Instructor: Dave Deily and Charles Kyobe
10 week course, Thursdays, March 9 – May 25
Create 3-dimensional musicians out of clay, and then use a computer-animated 2-dimensional composition of graphics, sound and visual effects to create a musical animation of clay characters playing musical instruments and singing an MP3 formatted song. Open to all students.