Inside the Voice-Over Industry: Learn How to Find Your Voice

Course Details
  • Course Number CFC-1443-A
  • Day(s) M
  • Dates Jun 10 - Jul 08
  • Hours 06:00PM - 08:30PM
  • Ceus 1.00
  • Cost 300.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Closed
  • Location 209 East 23rd Street

Description

The voice-over industry has changed dramatically. With the explosion of voice-over casting websites on the Internet, and the easy and inexpensive technology available to record at home, interest in this booming field has never been greater. This course will focus on the essential elements to become a voice-over artist and point you toward your authentic sound, working intensively with various types of copy most conducive to your personality. You'll get the inside scoop on current trends in a fun and nurturing workshop environment. Students will have the opportunity to work in a professional sound booth.
NOTE: Please bring a blue or colored pen to mark copy, a highlighter and a USB drive to the first session.

Instructor

Valerie Smaldone

Principal, Valerie Smaldone Media Worldwide; voice-over artist and live announcer; host, Valerie's New York; actress; producer; writer; celebrity interviewer, 92Y; talent coach

Education:

BA, Fordham University

Professional experience in voice over includes:

NBC, Investigation Discovery, CBS, Lifetime, HBO, Cinemax. Featured in “Secrets of Voice-Over Success”

Radio credits include:

WOR, WLTW (Lite-FM) New York; J-WAVE Tokyo; emcee/host: Clinton Global Initiative, The Kennedy Center, National Association of Professional Women, The Broadway League, tonyawards.com, Channel 13

Awards include:

Radio Personality of the Year Award, Billboard; Radio Personality of the Year Award, Radio and Records; Metro Air Award; Golden Apple Award, America Women in Radio and Television; Woman of the Year, Italian Welfare League; Italian Heritage and Culture Committee; Humanitarian Award, Sass Foundation for Medical Research

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Voice-Over Boot Camp: Professionally Produced Demo

Course Details
  • Course Number CFC-1476-A
  • Day(s) S,SU
  • Dates Jul 20 - Jul 21
  • Hours 10:00AM - 04:00PM
  • Ceus 1.00
  • Cost 470.00
  • Additional Fees 150.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 209 East 23rd Street

Description

This boot camp is an intensive two-day voice-over workshop where students will work on targeted copy chosen for their particular area of expertise and geared toward students' specific talents, including narration/industrial, promotion, commercial, urban, character or kids' demos. Students will be coached to perfect their delivery in a professional recording booth. By the end of the workshop, students will have recorded five to six pieces of copy that will be professionally mixed and produced into a finished demo.
PREREQUISITE: CFC-1443, Inside the Voice-Over Industry: Learn How to Find Your Voice.

Instructor

Valerie Smaldone

Principal, Valerie Smaldone Media Worldwide; voice-over artist and live announcer; host, Valerie's New York; actress; producer; writer; celebrity interviewer, 92Y; talent coach

Education:

BA, Fordham University

Professional experience in voice over includes:

NBC, Investigation Discovery, CBS, Lifetime, HBO, Cinemax. Featured in “Secrets of Voice-Over Success”

Radio credits include:

WOR, WLTW (Lite-FM) New York; J-WAVE Tokyo; emcee/host: Clinton Global Initiative, The Kennedy Center, National Association of Professional Women, The Broadway League, tonyawards.com, Channel 13

Awards include:

Radio Personality of the Year Award, Billboard; Radio Personality of the Year Award, Radio and Records; Metro Air Award; Golden Apple Award, America Women in Radio and Television; Woman of the Year, Italian Welfare League; Italian Heritage and Culture Committee; Humanitarian Award, Sass Foundation for Medical Research

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Specialty Costume Creations for Film and Television

Course Details
  • Course Number CFC-1874-A
  • Day(s) W
  • Dates Jun 05 - Aug 14
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:00PM
  • Ceus 3.00
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 185.00
  • Status Canceled
  • Location 214 East 21st Street

Description

In the rapidly changing entertainment industry, actors need to look more authentic, alien, futuristic or bestial: think Batman, Lady Gaga and the Wolfman. At the same time, actors need to understand how costumes help to define the personality of their characters. Through the pounds of face makeup, body armor, muscle suits, prosthetics and mechanics, a character comes to life. In this course, students will learn the three basic techniques used for most specialty costume manufacturing (sculpture, molds and castings) to create a one-of-a-kind costume piece. Demonstrations include body-casting techniques, silicone mold, casting techniques, urethane casting and painting techniques.

Instructor

Carl Philip Paolino

Producer; director; screenwriter; special effects designer for Antidote Films, Inc.; Carl Paolino Studios, Inc.; Pranksta Films LLC

EDUCATION:

 BFA, School of Visual Arts

PRODUCER, DIRECTOR:

 The Halloween Pranksta, The Wrong Coast, The Sickness



COMMERCIAL CREDITS INCLUDE:

Celebrity Deathmatch, Victoria’s Secret, Saturday Night Live, Nintendo, Burger King, MTV Video Music Awards

 

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Special FX Makeup and Silicone Prosthetics for Television and Film

Course Details
  • Course Number CFC-2243-A
  • Day(s) M
  • Dates Jun 03 - Aug 05
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:00PM
  • Ceus 3.00
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 225.00
  • Status Canceled
  • Location 214 East 21st Street

Description

Bring horror, sci-fi and fantasy characters to life. Learn how professional Hollywood makeup artists create fictional characters for TV and feature films. In this course, students will be introduced to the basic gore-and-accident-victim effects as well as some of the groundbreaking silicone prosthetic makeup FX techniques. Demonstrations will include how to life cast a model and the proper uses of unusual mold-making and casting materials.

Instructor

Carl Philip Paolino

Producer; director; screenwriter; special effects designer for Antidote Films, Inc.; Carl Paolino Studios, Inc.; Pranksta Films LLC

EDUCATION:

 BFA, School of Visual Arts

PRODUCER, DIRECTOR:

 The Halloween Pranksta, The Wrong Coast, The Sickness



COMMERCIAL CREDITS INCLUDE:

Celebrity Deathmatch, Victoria’s Secret, Saturday Night Live, Nintendo, Burger King, MTV Video Music Awards

 

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Commercial Voice-Over Workshop

Course Details
  • Course Number CFC-3014-A
  • Day(s) M
  • Dates Jun 10 - Jul 15
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:00PM
  • Ceus 1.50
  • Cost 210.00
  • Additional Fees 100.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 136 West 21st Street

Description

New York City is the country's largest and busiest center for voiceover production. Success in this competitive market can mean earning thousands of dollars in session fees and high residuals for voice-over talents. Learn the essential competitive skills that can win voice-over jobs with highly productive training sessions held in a working recording studio, utilizing actual voice-over copy for national commercials, corporate/educational projects and narratives, animation work, television/radio promos, trailers and audio books. Learn necessary professional audition skills and recording session techniques, vocal textures/attitudes, copy interpretation and performance execution. You'll also receive an introduction to the business of voice-overs, focusing on talent unions, talent agents, producers and casting directors, and also listen to a variety of talent demo reels, learning the key essential elements of a successful demo reel. This course will be held at a professional audio recording studio facility, and each student will receive a master-quality audio CD compilation of all in-studio recorded readings from this workshop.
NOTE: Please bring a notebook, pencil, pen and highlighter to the first session.

Instructor

Steve Harris

Voice-over artist; commercial sound director; member, AFTRA/SAG; voice-over demo reel producer; president, The Art of Voice, New York

Voice-over credits for television and radio commercials, promos and narrations include:

ABC-TV, AAMCO, AT&T, Bose, CSTV (CBS), Disney World, Downey, ESPN, Gannett, Flovent, HotJobs, IBM, KFC, Kraft, Kellogg's, Lotus Software, Macy's, The New York Times, Panasonic, PBS, Pepsi, Prevacid, Toys "R" Us, UPS, U.S. Coast Guard, BMW, Children's Television Workshop, Health Net/SmartChoice, IDB Bank, JVC Jazz Festival, Madison Square Boys & Girls Club, Solgar, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Salvation Army, Yahoo, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, 92nd Street Y

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Final Cut Pro

Course Details
  • Course Number CVC-2551-A
  • Day(s) M
  • Dates Jun 10 - Jul 15
  • Hours 06:00PM - 10:00PM
  • Ceus 2.00
  • Cost 460.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 209 East 23rd Street

Description


The key editing features of Apple Final Cut Pro, including compositing, titles, motion graphics capabilities and digital special effects, will be explored in this course. Students will edit assignments and complete exercises that address narrative structure, rhythm and pace in the editorial process. The grammar and aesthetics of editing in the visual storytelling process will be emphasized.
PREREQUISITE: A working knowledge of the Macintosh computer operating system.
NOTE: Lab time is included in the instructional hours; additional lab time is not available.

Instructor

Samuael Topiary

Filmmaker, video artist

Education:

BA, Wesleyan University; MFA, Bard College

Film projects include:

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus; Gum and Tea; Reeperbahn; Little Frankenstein; Momentum; Atalanta; The Odyssey; associate editor, Media Wars (Frontline, PBS), Valenica (Chapter 18)

Awards include:

MacDowell Colony; Experimental Television Center; Chicago International Film Festival; ARM Media Fellowship, Dance Theater Workshop

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Final Cut Pro

Course Details
  • Course Number CVC-2551-B
  • Day(s) T
  • Dates Jun 11 - Jul 16
  • Hours 06:00PM - 10:00PM
  • Ceus 2.00
  • Cost 460.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 209 East 23rd Street

Description


The key editing features of Apple Final Cut Pro, including compositing, titles, motion graphics capabilities and digital special effects, will be explored in this course. Students will edit assignments and complete exercises that address narrative structure, rhythm and pace in the editorial process. The grammar and aesthetics of editing in the visual storytelling process will be emphasized.
PREREQUISITE: A working knowledge of the Macintosh computer operating system.
NOTE: Lab time is included in the instructional hours; additional lab time is not available.

Instructor

Jesse Averna

Editor

Education:

BFA, School of Visual Arts

Film projects include:

Vanishing on 7th Street, Downtown Express

Television projects include:

Sesame Street, 62nd Annual Tony Awards, Johnny and the Sprites

Award:

Emmy Award

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Final Cut Pro

Course Details
  • Course Number CVC-2551-C
  • Day(s) F
  • Dates Jun 14 - Jul 26
  • Hours 12:00PM - 04:00PM
  • Ceus 2.00
  • Cost 460.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Canceled
  • Location 209 East 23rd Street

Description


The key editing features of Apple Final Cut Pro, including compositing, titles, motion graphics capabilities and digital special effects, will be explored in this course. Students will edit assignments and complete exercises that address narrative structure, rhythm and pace in the editorial process. The grammar and aesthetics of editing in the visual storytelling process will be emphasized.
PREREQUISITE: A working knowledge of the Macintosh computer operating system.
NOTE: Lab time is included in the instructional hours; additional lab time is not available.

Instructor

Kamil Dobrowolski

Film editor, colorist, sound designer

Education:

BFA, School of Visual Arts

Credits include:

The Children of Fleeting Light; Side by Side; Larry Flynt: The Right to be Left Alone; Rise of the Dead; Insidious; The Robber Barons of Wall Street; Silent Truth

Clients include:

Verizon, Avaya

Film festival screenings include:

Docuweek; Full Frame; Queens; International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam; Durango; Docfest; Ann Arbor; New York; Krakow; Melbourne; Film Columbia; Berlin; Tribeca; Hong Kong; Munich; Sydney; Maui

Awards and Honors include:

People's Voice Award, Webby; Best Short Film, Hoboken International Film Festival

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Advanced Final Cut Pro

Course Details
  • Course Number CVC-3046-A
  • Day(s) TH
  • Dates Jun 13 - Jul 25
  • Hours 06:00PM - 10:00PM
  • Ceus 2.00
  • Cost 460.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 209 East 23rd Street

Description

Dive into the features that make Apple Final Cut Pro a leading application for the film and television industries. Topics will be explored through hands-on studio sessions and discussions, and will include media management, project workflow, compositing, color correction, time remapping and multi-clip editing. We will also discuss how to use Final Cut Pro in conjunction with other applications, such as Motion, After Effects, Photoshop, Soundtrack Pro, Pro Tools and DVD Studio Pro, to create a multimedia hub across software applications.
PREREQUISITE: CVC-2551, Final Cut Pro, or equivalent.
NOTE: Lab time is included in the instructional hours; additional lab time is not available.

Instructor

Kamil Dobrowolski

Film editor, colorist, sound designer

Education:

BFA, School of Visual Arts

Credits include:

The Children of Fleeting Light; Side by Side; Larry Flynt: The Right to be Left Alone; Rise of the Dead; Insidious; The Robber Barons of Wall Street; Silent Truth

Clients include:

Verizon, Avaya

Film festival screenings include:

Docuweek; Full Frame; Queens; International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam; Durango; Docfest; Ann Arbor; New York; Krakow; Melbourne; Film Columbia; Berlin; Tribeca; Hong Kong; Munich; Sydney; Maui

Awards and Honors include:

People's Voice Award, Webby; Best Short Film, Hoboken International Film Festival

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Avid Editing

Course Details
  • Course Number CVC-3052-A
  • Day(s) M
  • Dates Jun 10 - Jul 29
  • Hours 06:00PM - 10:00PM
  • Ceus 3.00
  • Cost 520.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Wait List
  • Location 209 East 23rd Street

Description


For features, commercials, documentaries and television, Avid is the preferred editing system of many filmmakers. Using Media Composer software, this course will examine the principles, terms and concepts of random-access digital editing. Students will work with the Avid system to edit assignments and exercises that address editorial and narrative structure, rhythm and pace.
PREREQUISITE: A working knowledge of the Macintosh computer operating system.
NOTE: Lab time is included in the instructional hours; additional lab time is not available.

Instructor

Lynn Vance

Editor, WNET/Thirteen, The Outpost, Lifetime Television, Fox

Education:

MFA, Syracuse University

Independent videos include:

About Seven Months, A Gray Shaded Area, A Broad-Minded Show, Nine Mile Point

Screenings include:

New Music Festival, Philadelphia; Tokyo Video Festival; New York City Experimental Video and Film Festival; Magnetic Image 7; American Film Institute

Awards include:

Emmy, ACE Award

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Avid Editing

Course Details
  • Course Number CVC-3052-B
  • Day(s) T
  • Dates Jun 11 - Jul 30
  • Hours 12:00PM - 04:00PM
  • Ceus 3.00
  • Cost 520.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Closed
  • Location 209 East 23rd Street

Description


For features, commercials, documentaries and television, Avid is the preferred editing system of many filmmakers. Using Media Composer software, this course will examine the principles, terms and concepts of random-access digital editing. Students will work with the Avid system to edit assignments and exercises that address editorial and narrative structure, rhythm and pace.
PREREQUISITE: A working knowledge of the Macintosh computer operating system.
NOTE: Lab time is included in the instructional hours; additional lab time is not available.

Instructor

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The Art of Connecting

Course Details
  • Course Number PDC-3477-A
  • Day(s) T
  • Dates Jun 11 - Jul 30
  • Hours 06:30PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 2.00
  • Cost 270.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Canceled
  • Location 136 West 21st Street

Description

This course is a "silver bullet" for career enhancement. Today, perhaps more than ever, there is a meaningful link between our people skills and income. In our digitally mediated communications space, the ability to relate to others at an emotional level is crucial. This is an engaging, student-centered course for professionals who wish to take their careers to a new level by mastering the techniques for deep listening and responding-the critical "secret ingredient" that enhances our human relations and that is critical for success in business. Whether you want to change careers, or get to the next level with employers, co-workers, staff and clients, the authenticity of your connection will make a difference. Utilizing practices from the craft of acting, management consulting and high-level government training, you will learn to really see, hear and experience what others communicate verbally, non-verbally and emotionally. Exercises include how to focus your attention on the complexities of subtle and delicate behavior-actions, emotions, needs and values-and to create positive interactions, which allow opportunities to arise that might otherwise go unseen. Through fun, user-friendly and practical approaches, students will learn how to leave a positive impression on others and infuse relationships with presence and empathy. This course is perfect for those who are seeking new career opportunities.

Instructor

José Angel Santana

Mediator; director; actor; founder, Youand: The Art of Mutual Understanding; founder, Temenos 12

Education:

BA, University of Vermont; MA, PhD, Pacifica Graduate Institute; graduate, The Neighborhood Playhouse (studied with Sanford Meisner)

Clients include:

U.S. Army Central Electronic Command: Human Interaction Training; Hendricks Institute, REDKEN Corp.; City at Peace; Vermont State Maximum Security Prison

Awards include:

Local Hero Award for Arts and Crime Prevention, City of Santa Barbara, CA; Santa Barbara Independent Theater Award; Arts for Change Award, Bravo Television Network. Artist residency, California Arts Council

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