Digital Media Commons (DMC) Workshop

This short course will go over a few basic concepts of photography, including aperture, shutter speed, and ISO and provide some simple tips to improve the quality of your photos.

Participants will learn how to create a very basic logotype for the DMC. The characters of the logotype will be made from scratch using Illustrator's tools.

Viewers will get a demonstration of how to create realistic models of furniture for renderings. The first model to be made is a polygon model of a leather couch. Viewers can then request other furniture to be modeled.

Zoom has become an essential tool for us to participate in meetings, classes, and all sorts of collaborative work while we work remotely. Are you still looking for a solution to a Zoom problem? Do you have a tip or trick that you wanted to share with your colleagues? Come to this Zoom meetup for quick Zoom show-and-tells and a Q&A.

The show-and-tell part will cover the following topics.

Participants will learn how to make an illustration of myelin.

Although the artwork is geared towards bioscience, participants of all disciplines are welcome to join!

Participants will learn how to make an illustration of myelin.

Although the artwork is geared towards bioscience, participants of all disciplines are welcome to join!

This course will go over the basic aspects of digital photography and focus on helping to familiarize you with how a camera works and the common terminology. If you have a camera, it is recommended you bring it to the course, otherwise you may check one out from the DMC to follow along.

This class will cover the basics of editing videos in iMovie, with a specific focus on preparing videos for online teaching applications. Topics covered include cutting clips, transitions, and basic audio editing. If you want to follow along, please bring your own mac computer.

Participants will learn how visualize medium sized data sets. The added component of time will allow participants to convey their data in a different way. Participants will learn:

• prepping data (converting to JSON so data is readable by After Effects)
• Basic Javascript commands to get up and running 
• Creative ways to graph a data set
• Animating the data set

In this course, you will learn the basics of using continuous lights in the DMC's photo/video studio. Topics covered will include placement and direction of light, managing intensity of light, using gels and various attachments, shooting against white and black backdrops, and a handful of standard lighting schemes for different subjects.