Audio & Video

DIY Media: Production

UBC Studios
February 19, 2019 | 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
UBC Studios (Room 0110, 2329 West Mall, Vancouver) | Free
This hands-on workshop will provide advice for DIY camera, lighting and audio techniques. Media professionals will share tips, tricks, and best practices, and you’ll have an opportunity to try things out for yourself at UBC Studios. Whether you’re filming outside, in an office, or in a professional studio, we can help you move from “good enough” to media that you’ll be proud of.

Audio & Video

DIY Media: Scripting and Storyboarding

UBC Studios
January 22, 2019 | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
UBC Studios (Room 0110, 2329 West Mall, Vancouver) | Free
This workshop explores the fundamentals of DIY media scripting and storyboarding. We’ll look at examples of the wide range of approaches that can be taken, and give tips and tricks on how to get the most out of pre-production for your media project. Please arrive with your own projects and creative briefs in mind, so that we can help you accomplish the scripting and storyboarding dreams that you never knew that you had.

Audio & Video

DIY Media: Creative Brief

UBC Studios
January 15, 2019 | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
UBC Studios (Room 0110, 2329 West Mall, Vancouver) | Free
Planning a media project can be overwhelming. This workshop for will provide guidance from media professionals on the many things to consider when planning a media project, whether your project is simple or complex. Minimize your suffering; plan effectively!

Social Media

UBC Social Media Meetup Group

The Social Media Meetup Group is a community of practice for UBC staff who manage official social media channels. If you’d like to join the group and attend meetings, please complete the following form.

Visual Identity

CreativeMornings Vancouver

Inspiring Talks — Ongoing series at SFU Woodward’s — Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
Registration is free. You must sign up on the ticket lottery for each talk.

Needing some creative inspiration in the morning? Sign up for a CreativeMorning talk. Past speakers have included a shoe designer, a chocolatier, and a Whitecaps FC player. The Vancouver chapter of CreativeMornings is organized and hosted by a dedicated team of volunteers as a creative community engagement initiative of the BC chapter of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC).

Writing

Copywriting: Introduction

UBC Extended Learning
Sep 25-Nov 16, 2018 or Jan 22-Mar 15, 2019
Online | $605.00 (eligible for Tuition Waivers)
Learn and practise the techniques, creativity boosters and craft of professional copywriting in a supportive and intensive writing clinic that focuses on the process and purpose of persuasive business writing.

Audio & Video, Workshop

The Art of Video Interviews

Online
Free
Lynda.com courses are free for UBC faculty & staff. Sign up for free access here.
Find out how to prepare for, organize, and conduct great video interviews. Learn about performing background research before you “set foot on set,” positioning the subject in front of the camera, building trust, avoiding common mistakes in questioning, capturing secondary audio for use in a podcast, and much more.

Writing

Writing Fundamentals: The Craft of Story

Online | Free
Dig into the craft of writing a compelling story, with practical how-to advice and before-and-after writing samples.

Social Media

Hootsuite Academy: Social Marketing Training

Online
Free
Develop fundamental social marketing skills to drive real business results. Learn how to optimize your social media profiles, create a strategy and grow an online community. You will also discover content marketing and social advertising fundamentals.

Website

Become a Front-End Web Developer

Online
Free
Lynda.com courses are free for UBC faculty & staff. Sign up for free access here.
Get the skills to build engaging, interactive user experiences on the web as a front-end web developer. Learn everything you need to design and develop user-facing code, and discover how to bring concepts to life on the browser canvas by combining essential graphic design and coding principles. Develop competency with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery. Master basic version control with Git and GitHub. Apply best practices in responsive design and progressive enhancement.