In many ways Scandinavian film and television is a global cultural brand, connected with and exporting some of the cultural and social values connected to a liberal and progressive welfare society. This course deals with the social, institutional and cultural background of film and television in Scandinavia and in a broader European and global context.

In this project learners will know how to create professional business cards with the windows version of Photoshop. Learners will also learn how to create their personalized QR Code, which we will add to our business card. In this project you will also learn how to create the layout for standard size business cards. We will walk through each step, review how to select fonts, identify which font sizes to use, and identify colors that work well with your professional personally created business card. We will also go over the process of creating your personalized QR code, which we will place on our business card. Learning how to create your own business card with your QR code will allow you to create your own personal look, and the QR code will allow others to scan your card to electronically receive your contact information. Using Photoshop to create business cards is a great, flexible program for beginners to advanced users.

By the end of this project, you will create a product package design with mockups using Adobe Photoshop CC. Throughout the tasks, you will be able to use the vanishing point tool to insert designs on the mockup layer, use the wrap transformation to replace irregular shape mockup with graphic design. Also, you will be able to duplicate layers, relight mockup layers and add different shadow types. finally, you will export your design for final use. This guided project is for intermediate designers since we will develop from the basic knowledge of designing tools in photoshop like brush tools, Layer styles, and masks, also designers who are familiar with Perspective drawing This project will provide you with the ability to create a product design with mockups based on the amazing designing and transformation tools in photoshop which merge perspective and standard transformation environment. Knowing how to make package designs using mockups enriches your designing career in many promising fields like Retail Business, Advertising, Printing and packaging, and of course Social media!

This course is a brief introduction to the elements of music theory for those with little or no music theory experience. We will explore pitch, rhythm, meter, notation, scales, keys, key signatures, meter signatures, triads, seventh chords, and basic harmony. If you listen to music or play music by ear, and you want to know more about how music is organized and notated, this course is for you. By the end of the course, you should know all major and minor keys, how to read and write in treble and bass clef using standard meters and rhythmic values, and how to notate and harmonize a simple melody. This course can serve as a stand-alone basic music theory course, or it can be a springboard to more advanced theory and composition courses. Your instructor is Bruce Taggart, Associate Professor of Music Theory at Michigan State University, in the College of Music, where he has taught undergraduate and graduate music theory since 1996.

In this guided project you will learn how you can create a social media presence for your small business and how you can use the Canva platform to do so. Canva is a graphic design web platform where we can create any type of material we need, from social media posts, brand kits, summaries, among many other things. Canva offers a number of tools to create content from elements, text sources, video, and audio. Canva has many elements that are free and gives you a lot of freedom when it comes to designing. It is an extremely useful tool for those who are just starting out and it even becomes a very good tool for those who have been designing more advanced programs for years. It is a quick option that does not need to be installed on your computer and as long as you have an Internet connection, it will be an accessible tool. Today you will learn how to use Canva to grow your small business, define your goals, find your ideal platform, create your own logo, discover ways to create innovative and eye-catching content, and finally learn how to plan your content in advance using Canva.

Intended for both newcomers who are curious about video games and experienced gamers who want to reflect on their passion, this course will explore what happens to stories, paintings, and films when they become the basis of massively multiplayer online games. The Lord of the Rings trilogy—the novels, films, and video game—are our central example of how “remediation” transforms familiar stories as they move across media. The course is designed as a university-level English literature class—a multi-genre, multimedia tour of how literature, film, and games engage in the basic human activity of storytelling. Our journey will enable us to learn something about narrative theory, introduce us to some key topics in media studies and cover some of the history and theory of video games. It will also take us to some landmarks of romance literature, the neverending story that lies behind most fantasy games: J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring, a bit of Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene, and poems by Keats, Tennyson, Browning, and others. Drawing on centuries of romance narrative conventions, the twenty-first century gaming industry has become a creative and economic powerhouse. It engages the talents of some of our brightest writers, artists, composers, computer engineers, game theorists, video producers, and marketing professionals, and in 2012, it generated an estimated $64 billion in revenue. Anyone interested in today’s culture needs to be conversant with the ways this new medium is altering our understanding of stories. Join me as we set out on an intellectual adventure, the quest to discover the cultural heritage of online games.

By the end of this project, you will learn how to use Adobe Spark to create simple story highlights for your Social Media accounts. You’ll be able to set up an account on Adobe Spark for free and explore its basic functions to create simple Visual Contents ready to be used on your social media. Adobe Spark is an integrated suite of media creation applications for mobile and web developed by Adobe Systems. The free Adobe Spark web app, allows users to create, edit and share their visual story and design visual content that can be used for businesses, education, social media, etc... Users may import pictures using the platform, or use the search tool to find a library Creative Commons licensed images available. Social Stories Highlights are an incredible tool for businesses to showcase and promote their brand. Your highlights live front-and-center on your Instagram profile for example, so they’re perfect for helping new visitors discover what your company is all about. It’s worth spending time planning and strategizing how to use them to your advantage as they can live permanently on your profile. They’re selected collections of Stories that your followers can tap into and watch any time they like. And because of their “highlighted” location in your profile, they’re powerful in order to direct followers to your most valuable and interesting content allowing you to easily curate and showcase the content you want followers to see first. Story Highlights are definitely a creative way to express yourself, show off your products, drive traffic, or market your business. This guided project is for students, graphic designers, content creators or the general public who want to explore Adobe Spark and its tools to create simple Visual Contents ready to be used on Social Media.

The new version of Introduction to Ableton Live featuring Ableton Live 10 will launch on April 20! In the past, Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) were programs used only by audio engineers with a highly specific knowledge base, on machines inaccessible to most people. But over the past 10-15 years, DAWs and the act of recording music have evolved from being a luxury of the few to being available to the masses. Ableton Live is one such application. Used by an extremely broad range of music creators, Ableton Live not only facilitates the work of engineers, producers, and writers in professional, home, and mobile studio settings, but it is also a powerful platform for musicians on stage, in the DJ booth, and elsewhere. In this Ableton Certified Training Center course developed by Berklee Online, you will explore some of Live’s most powerful and useful functionality: MIDI programming, audio recording, warping and processing, looping editing, mixing, performing, file management, and troubleshooting. Meant to be a springboard for those who are new to Ableton Live and/or DAWs in general, this three-week course will provide you with a strong knowledge base for using Live to take your musical ideas from conception to final recording. The course breaks down the many barriers of entry into music technology and encourages all those who wish, to create fearlessly. Note: If you do not own Ableton Live 10, you can download the free, fully featured Ableton Live Trial. The trial version will allow you to save and export your work for 30 days. If you use the trial version, do not download it until the course is scheduled to begin.

Volume 1 of this series represents the first footsteps along an incredible journey of discovery and artistic exploration. As you are likely already aware, the more tools we learn to use, the broader the horizon becomes, and the more possibilities we can unleash onto our canvas! The second volume introduces us to the next five tools in the Adobe Photoshop toolbox: The Frame Tool, The Eyedropper, The Spot Healing Bush, The Brush Tool, and the Clone Stamp Tool.

By the end of this project, you’ll be able to create isometric vector graphics of different sign posts. You’ll build an image with Inkscape, a free vector graphics program. Inkscape gives you the ability to make graphics with clear lines and vivid colors. Since the images are vector-based, you’ll also have the flexibility to edit and resize them again and again—all while keeping the best image quality. You’ll build some sharp and interesting signs. During this project, you’ll get used to navigating Inkscape’s workspace, learn how to create an axonometric grid, and use that grid to add a signpost and sign. Once you’ve drawn the basic shapes, you’ll add text and details and accessories. Last, you’ll learn how to export your work in vector and raster formats. By the end of the project, you’ll be comfortable creating a three-dimensional projection on a flat screen. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.