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Creative Digital Design - On Campus
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Creative Digital Design – On Campus
Graphic Design
Build a unique media portfolio with Adobe Creative Cloud! Learn basic photography, videography, and audio processing so that you can create stunning visual media.
Course highlights
Use professional level software
This is a crash course on the Adobe Creative Cloud - the pro software used by the creative industry as they use graphic design and video tools to create the messages all around us.
A portfolio to share
You will create your own movie posters with Photoshop, learn vector-based art with Illustrator, edit videos with Adobe Clip and Premiere Pro, and produce sound clips (or podcasts!) with Adobe Audition. Wrap up the week with a portfolio that you can be proud of and keep working on after the course is done!
Supercharge your creativity
You'll be amazed at how you can bring your ideas to life and make slick original projects with the Adobe Creative Cloud. Creativity powered by tech can be your superpower!
Featured FAQ
My child has only worked on Apple Mac and iPads and not on Windows based PCs. Is this an issue?
The Adobe software used on this course is the same on Apple Mac and Windows PC so there shouldn't be any issue. We deliver this course on PC or Mac depending on availability of hardware. The projects …
The Adobe software used on this course is the same on Apple Mac and Windows PC so there shouldn't be any issue. We deliver this course on PC or Mac depending on availability of hardware. The projects being worked on would be more complex than what could likely be done on iPads though.
Course Overview
Learn how to take your graphic design skills from average to awesome and create an envy-worthy portfolio, with Adobe Creative Cloud.
This course is designed for students interested in graphic design, digital publishing and online media creation. During this course, students will learn how to use the Adobe Suite, which includes Photoshop, Illustrator, Clip, Premiere Pro, and Audition.
Students will attain core skills within creative digital design that will be highly adaptable and applied across personal, academic and professional contexts, and learn how to create different digital media using professional level Graphic Design tools.
Please note: students will need an iPhone or Android smartphone to use for filming and for editing with Clip.
This course is also available in after-school and online formats.
What your child will learn
- Image editing and compositing within video editors and photography management and editing applications
- Bring life into art using digital animation tools
- Create amazing graphics, video stories and web pages
- Design your own website without needing any coding knowledge
- Ability to design, edit and create various images, graphics, web pages and more!
- The confidence and skills to continue to grow their personal portfolio and apply this knowledge to other projects
- Students leave with their own digital portfolio
Typical daily schedule
On Campus 12-17
1.5 hours
Kick off
10 minutes
Break
50 minutes
Lesson time
1 hour
Lunch
75 minutes
Lesson time
10 minutes
Break
50 minutes
Lesson time
15 minutes
Stand ups and finish
Meet Will
Will studied at the Royal Academy of Music and is one of Fire Tech most long-standing digital music tutors. He's a drummer, composer, and loves teaching young people how to combine technology with music to build sounds, songs, compositions and much more.
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