Cutting Edge Media Academy

INDIVIDUAL COURSES

ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR (ONE MONTH)

Adobe Illustrator is a program used by Graphic Designers, Website Designers and artists to create vector images in print and digital form. They are used widely for making posters, logos, create illustrations, cartoons, banners ect.

Course Contents

  • Introduction Selections
  • The Pen Tools
  • Layers and Grouping
  • The Stroke
  • Filters
  • The Blend Tool
  • Type
  • Shape Objects
  • Transformations
  • Aligning and Distributing
  • Line Tools
  • Smart Guides and Rulers
  • Scissor and Knife
  • Pathfinder
  • Compound Path and Clipping Mask
  • Applying Color
  • The Pencil Tools
  • The Brush Tool
  • Liquify
  • Appearence and Styles
  • Charts and Graphs
  • RGB and Screen Graphics
  • Saving for the web
  • Slicing for the web
  • Image maps
  • Symbols and Symbol
  • Gradients
  • Transparency and Masking
  • Enveloping and Meshes
  • Mash Panting
  • Logo Creation
  • Digital Illustrations
  • Mandala Art Creation
  • Poly Art Creation

Coreldraw (ONE MONTH)

CorelDraw is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Alludo (formerly Corel Corporation). It is also the name of the Corel graphics suite, which includes the bitmap-image editor Corel Photo-Paint as well as other graphics-related programs (see below). It can serve as a digital painting platform, desktop publishing suite, and is commonly used for production art in signmaking, vinyl and laser cutting and engraving, print-on-demand and other industry processes. Reduced-feature Standard and Essentials versions are also offered.

Course Contents

  • Introduction & Usage
  • Interface
  • Layout & Templates
  • Font Management
  • Printing & Packaging
  • Branding Stationery e.g Pendrive, Mouse Pad etc.
  • Sign Boards
  • Banners, Leaflets
  • Danglers, Standies
  • Cartoon Characters
  • Backdrops, Price Tags
  • Brochure & Magazine Designs
  • Typography

ADOBE LIGHTROOM (ONE MONTH)

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a photo processor and image organizer developed by Adobe Systems for windows and macintosh. It allows viewing, organizing and retouching a large number of digital images. Perfect your images from shoot to finish with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC software and get everything you need to organize, perfect and share your photographs with ease and speed.

Course Contents

  • Getting Started with Lightroom
  • Library Module
  • Importing Photos
  • Reviewing and Organizing
  • Working while watching a Slideshow
  • About Keyword Tags
  • Creating a Collection
  • Rearranging and Deleting Images in a Collection
  • Comparing Photos side by side
  • Enhancing Images through the Development Module
  • Localized Adjustments
  • HSL and Black and White
  • Batch Processing
  • HDR and Photo-merging
  • Output and Printing
  • The Slideshow Module
  • The Print Module
  • The Web Module
  • Retouchup
  • Face-Cleaning
  • Correction/Enhancement of Landscape Images
  • Creating Panorama from Several Images

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP (TWO MONTHS)

Adobe Photoshop gives you everything you need to bring out the best in your digital images, transfer them into anything you can imagine, and showcase them in extraordinary ways. Photoshop expertise provides an edge in the job market. Our faculties train you to become a creative graphics professional or image editor.

Course Contents

  • Fundamentals of Graphics Designing
  • Designing Principles
  • Color Theory
  • Basics of Print and Publishing
  • Layers
  • Photoshop Interface
  • Tools and Options
  • Fonts Description
  • Channels and Actions
  • Filters
  • Restoring and Enhancing Images
  • Camera Raw
  • Special Effects
  • Creating Action and Batch
  • Masking
  • Retouch up of Images
  • Poster Design
  • Web Application and Animation
  • Gif
  • Carricature
  • Social Media Platform Thumbnail and Design

ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS (TWO MONTHS)

Designed keeping in mind all the prerequisites and skills required, the course takes students from basics to the advanced training. Adobe After Effects is primarily used for creating motion graphics and visual effects. Students are skilled to animate, alter and composite media in 2D and 3D space with various built-in tools and third party plug-ins.

Course Contents

  • Creating Visual Effects
  • Storyboarding Basics
  • Introduction to Compositing
  • Compositing Layers
  • Tracking
  • Chroma Keying
  • Particles Effect
  • Color Correction
  • 3D Titling
  • Transitions and Filters
  • Logo Animation
  • Paint and Cloning
  • Rotoscopy
  • Camera and Lights
  • Motion Graphics (Keyframing)
  • 2D Titling
  • Making of Templates
  • Promo Packaging
  • Wire Removal
  • Scripting

ADOBE PREMIER PRO - EDITING (TWO MONTHS)

Adobe Premiere Pro is a timeline-based video editing software application. It is part of the Adobe Creative Cloud which includes Video Editing, Graphic Design and Web Development programs. With the industries-leading video production toolset, you can work across desktop and devices to edit virtually any type of media in its native format and create professional productions with brilliant color for film, TV and web.

Course Contents

  • The Premiere Pro Interface
  • History of Editing
  • The Grammar of Editing
  • The Language of Cinema
  • Film Analysis and Film Appreciation
  • Capturing, Importing and Creating Assets
  • Assets to Timeline – Project Window
  • Transitions
  • Setting the Default Transition
  • Previewing a Sequence
  • Video Effects
  • Keyframing
  • Adobe Title Designer
  • Audio
  • Exporting
  • Color Correction
  • Multicam Editing
  • Practical Editing of other Relevant Areas
  • Audio/Video Capture

ADOBE AUDITION

Adobe Audition software includes thousands of uncompressed, royalty-free audio sound effects and music loop files.
Mix, edit, and create audio content with a comprehensive toolset that includes multitrack, waveform, and spectral display. This powerful audio workstation is designed to accelerate video production workflows, audio finishing and deliver a polished mix with pristine sound.

FINAL CUT PRO - EDITING (TWO MONTHS)

Final Cut Pro is a non-linear video editing software developed by macromedia Inc and later Apple Inc. Final Cut Pro provides non-linear, non destructive editing of any compatible video film for films and videos. A motion picture or television production is given final form in the hands of the editor. It is this individual who takes video material and edits it together to tell a complete story. It is not a simple matter of taking one scene to the next. The film editor plays a dynamic and creative role in the storytelling process.

Course Contents

  • History of Editing (Accompanied by the screening of films that have led to the evolution and the growth of the technique of Film Editing)
  • The Grammar of Editing
  • The Language of Cinema
  • Film Analysis and Film Appreciation
  • Log and Capture
  • Log and Transfer
  • Sequence Setting
  • Importing
  • Mix Unmix
  • Advanced Editing Techniques
  • Multicam Edit
  • Video Transition
  • Filters
  • Motion (Keyframing)
  • Mastering the Interface
  • Creating Titles Exporting
  • Practical Editing of other Relevant Areas Learn to make Short Films, Music Videos, Documentaries, Montages, Promos, Corporate Films, Ad Films with Actual Footage of Shoots.

AUTODESK SMOKE / FLAME (THREE MONTHS)

Autodesk Smoke connects Editing and Effects which gives a visual treat to the videos. Aspirants are provided complete training of Computer Graphics, Online Editing and Compositing. We polish their skills to master the techniques & concepts. Smoke Video Editing Software for Mac has finishing tools for 3D Compositing, Color Correction, and Motion Graphics. Our Professionals provide practical training to students so that they become skilled on a software which is regularly used in Bollywood and Hollywood.

Course Contents

  • Introduction to Flame Interface
  • Soft Effect
  • Conforming
  • Editing
  • Color Correction (CC)
  • Color Warper (CW)
  • Paint Effect
  • Titles, 2D & 3D Text
  • Displacement Mapping
  • Diffuse Mapping
  • Transitions
  • Filters / Effects
  • Advance Composition (Action Module)
  • Tracking - 1 point, 2 point, 4 point
  • 3D Tracking
  • A2 Beauty
  • Matchbox Filters
  • Reflection
  • Particles
  • Lens Flare
  • Paint, Autopaint
  • Stabilisation
  • Face Cleaning
  • Chroma Keying
  • Cloud Replacement
  • Camera Tracking
  • AI Filters

DA-VINCI RESOLVE (FOUR MONTHS)

Da-Vinci Resolve is the world’s first solution that combines professional offline and online editing, color correction, audio post production and now visual effects all in one software tool !

Course Contents

  • Introduction to Resolve
  • Theory of Colors
  • Primary and Secondary
  • Scopes Waveform, Vectorscope, Histogram, Prade
  • Inspector Panel
  • Multi-cam Edit
  • Working with Nodes
  • Confirming XML and EDL
  • LUT – LookUp Table
  • 3D Tracking of Mask
  • Color Matching
  • Log Vs Linear footage
  • Qualifier
  • Magic Wrap
  • Fx Filters
  • Color Correction & Color Grading
  • Chroma Keying
  • Working on raw footages of Alexa, Red, 5D, Sony FS7, Industry Standard
  • Optical Flow/Retime Footage
  • Advance Color Correction
  • Advance Grading
  • Rendering Deliverables
  • Panel Introduction
  • Curves, Offset
  • Keyframing
  • Look Creation
  • Practicals

Fusion Effects

  • Rotoscoping
  • 3D Particle Systems
  • Powerful Keying
  • True 3D Compositing
  • Tracking and Stabilization
  • 2D and 3D Titles
  • Spline Based Animation

Fairlight Audio

  • Mixing
  • Equalization and Dynamics
  • Editing and Automation
  • Plug-in Effects
  • ADR
  • Mastering

STILL PHOTOGRAPHY (TWO MONTHS)

The course will lay down the foundations or build on existing knowledge and skill in the realm of still photography. Core concepts like exposure, composition, light, shadow, color, format, camera type, lens type and digital or darkroom post processing will be covered as you learn how professional photographers create the perfect shot in all conditions.

Course Contents

  • Introduction & History of Photography
  • Working with the Digital SLR Camera
  • Types of Camera Lenses
  • Features of Camera and Operations
  • Composition of the subject
  • Exposure Settings, ISO Settings,
  • Shutter Settings
  • Focusing Auto & Manual
  • Auto Focus Look
  • Basic Lighting
  • Studio Lighting
  • Source of Light & Lighting
  • Flash Photography
  • Outdoor / Indoor Shoots
  • Portrait
  • Landscape
  • Macro Photography
  • Application of close-up lenses
  • Action Photography / Do’s and Don’ts

CINEMATOGRAPHY (THREE MONTHS)

CEMA’s course in Cinematography helps you acquire the practical skills necessary to become a professional Cinematographer. With this course, you gain in-depth knowledge of the working of DSLR’s, studio lighting, outdoor & indoor shoots. You will be trained by the industry professionals of the industry which will help you build a substantial showreel.

Course Contents

  • History of Cinematography
  • Types of Camera & their Features
  • Types of Camera Lenses
  • Camera Composition
  • Exposure settings
  • ISO settings
  • Shutter settings
  • Types of Filters in Cinematography
  • Depth of field
  • Factors affecting DOF
  • Color Temperature
  • White Balance
  • Light Designing
  • Studio Lighting
  • Source of Light and Lighting
  • Outdoor / Indoor Shoots
  • Introduction of multi-cam setup
  • Audio Recording
  • Introduction about types of infrastructure like trolly, crane
  • Making Short Films
  • Responsibilities of Cinematographer (Pre-Production and Post-Production)