WCCA Classes and Workshops

WCCA has various classes ongoing year-round. Some of the skills we teach include:

• The Basics
  • Using the studio control room
  • Using the audio mixer (Berhinger X 32 assorted Mackies also available)
  • New Tek's Tri Caster console TCX D8000 Video mixer
  • JVC SDXC Pro HD/ Swit 9 inch Monitors
  • Studio Cameras
  • LED Studio Lighting and remote controller
  • Communications systems (DataVideo LTC 100)
  • Using recording devices (Assorted JVC and Panasonic EA18, DataVideo HDR, Live Stream, iPhone Conduits, and others)
• Advanced Studio One on One
• Basic Electronic Field Production Certification
  • Intro to field cameras (JVC 7004s, JVC XTM, Canon Vixia HFS200, JVC 100's)
  • Field audio mixer
  • Assorted field microphones
  • Field lighting basics
  • Storyboard and editing preparations
  • Field communications systems
• Internships
• Video editing with Adobe Premiere
• Summer program: Youth Digital Media Clubhouse (TV and V-FILM Production Lab)
• Audio Basics
  • Microphone selection, set up, and placement (including Shure PG 88’s, Sony ECM-44B’s, Shure SM 57 and 58 (wired and wireless))
  • Mixing board (Berhinger X 32) with special effect settings
• Interviewing
  • Blocking
  • Set considerations
  • Camera angles
  • Lighting techniques
  • Audio considerations
  • Story board basics.
• Lighting Studio and Field
  • Basic 2 and 3-point lighting techniques; understanding use of light switch board; use of floor lamps, jells, reflectors, and other devices.
• Video Story Telling
  • How to organize a story, script, interview content, story board, news story, using the video image to convey a message.