New Media Programs for Teens

Explore the world of new media in our state-of-the-art digital media studio. Workshops in video, web design, digital photography, animation, pod-casting and more are offered through the year for all levels of experience. Learn from professional media artists as you develop your own digital media art portfolio. Classes are fee-based, with scholarships available for Boston public school students.

Register at www.icateens.org/workshops
 

DJ School 101 - Vinyl
Tuesdays, January 24 - February 14, 4 - 6 pm
Beat matching, cutting, blending, mixing, and scratching. Learn DJ skills using vinyl record basics and by the end of the course create sets and a mix of your own design!

Digital Collage and Photoshop
Wednesdays, January 25 - February 15, 4 - 6:30 pm
Make digital collages using Photoshop and print your final work on different surfaces, including cloth, newspaper, mesh and metal.

Motion Graphics and Adobe After Effects
Tuesdays, February 28 - March 28, 4 - 6:30 pm
Adbe After Effects is used in the television, film and video industry to animate texxt, logos and characters and to create special effects in 2D and 3D space.

Furniture Design
Saturdays, March 3 and 10, 10:30 am - 2:30 pm
Take inspiration from artwork in the galleries, and use technology and basic building techniques to create your own experimental furniture design.

Video Game Design
Wednesdays, March 14 - April 11, 4 - 6:30 pm
Dig into design, color, narrative, creative computing, and simple physics while developing your own video game.

DJ School 201 - Scratch Live
Tuesdays, April 3 - May 14, 4 - 6 pm, and Friday, May 18, 4 - 9 pm
Using Build on the DJ 101 beginner's course, and into digital DJ-ing using Seratos's Scratch Live. Learn advanced mixing and scratching techniques while beginning to develop a personal style. Prerequisite: DJ School 101.

Digital Photography - Beginner
Saturday, April 7, 10:30 am - 2:30 pm
Use digital SLR cameras and learn how to process RAW image files for manipulating and editing in Photoshop. This class is a prerequisite for the Advanced Digital Photography workshop.

Advanced Digital Photography
Tuesday - Friday, April 17-20, 10:30 am - 2 pm
Engage in three specific shooting areas: portraits, shooting for black and white, and landscapes and learn advanced instructions improving final print quality and organizing a meaningful portfolio.

Fast Forward is made possible in part through the support of the Massachusetts Cultural Council YouthReach program.

 
Additional support is provided by The Fuller Foundation, Inc., the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, the Rowland Foundation and the William E. Schrafft and Bertha E. Schrafft Charitable Trust.