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Interested in getting involved with CMAP? Want to shoot a documentary, or have a live call-in show, or direct someone else's show? Contact Access Facilitator Shawn Mulcare to set up your customized training!

ORIENTATION No membership required   FREE!!
___Step 1
Learn all about CMAP! Just watch our Orientation video on cable Public Access Channel 20, or attend our Orientation meeting.
___Step 2
Become a Member: Sign up for membership in person, or download the membership and compliance forms, and send them in with a check. This will give you equipment privileges and allow you to take fast track training workshops. 

LEARN

 

Learn how to use studio, field or editing equipment! CMAP's staff will give you fast track training when it's convenient for YOU. Contact Access Facilitator Shawn Mulcare to schedule training.

PRODUCER'S SEMINAR Fee Included in membership Capacity: 20

This two to three hour informative lecture covering pre-production planning, scriptwriting, storyboarding, budgeting requirements, shooting locations, equipment needs, cast and crew requirements, working with volunteers, and underwriting tips.  Even if you are a seasoned producer, it is important that you take this workshop, as we cover CMAP specific paperwork needed to get your show on the road to an airdate.  This workshop is generally offered once a month on a weeknight.                          

STUDIO PRODUCTION

Fee:  Included in membership 

Capacity: 20

This fifteen-hour course covers the basics of TV Studio equipment.  Attendees will learn how to operate studio camera, floor direct, run the audio board, live call-in phone line, teleprompter, character generator, video switcher, and directing terminology and techniques.  This workshop is offered once a month, generally four 3–hour sessions on Monday nights and a Saturday lab.

FIELD PRODUCTION

Fee:  Included in membership  

Capacity: 6

This six-hour course covers the Canon GL1 and XL1s mini-DV cameras, basic shooting skills, camera safety, sound recording, and lighting.  This workshop is generally offered twice a month, either all day on a Saturday, or two weeknights.

iMOVIE DIGITAL EDITING Fee:  Included in membership    Capacity: 5

This three-hour introduction to non-linear editing is for the novice or intermediate editor and covers basic editing techniques in the iMovie software program.  This workshop teaches the basic and the advanced tools available in the iMovie program. In this class you will learn how to capture, trim, create a storyboard, tweak your audio, create titles, and export to a DVD all in one night. With these skills you have no excuse not to finish that project! This workshop is generally offered once a month on a weeknight.

 

FINAL CUT PRO    

Fee: $30.00   

Capacity: 5

This is a three-part (9 hr) survey of the newest version of Final Cut Pro (4).  The Course will cover FCP in a multi-user environment, media file management, basic and advanced editing techniques, effects and transitions, output, and broadcast standards.

NOTE: This is an advanced workshop with a prerequisite of Screenplay certification.   If you have prior non-linear editing experience, may take a general digital editing test to bypass the Screenplay workshop.

STUDIO-IN-A-SUITCASE

Fee:  $30.00  

Capacity: 5

Hi!  I am ZAK.  Sign up for Sutio-in-a-Suitcase and you can do some awesome field productions with me!

This two-hour course introduces ZAK, a studio control room in a portable suitcase.  This is an advanced workshop with a prerequisite of both Studio Production and Field Production.  Certification in this workshop will allow members to shoot multi-camera events in the field, studio style.  This workshop 3 hour workshop is generally offered once a month on a weeknight.

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