Orientation & Certification


Orientation (free & open to the public)
Orientations are scheduled every month on Wednesday evenings from 6pm to 8pm. Each class will introduce the CMC, its guidelines and procedures and also teach basic skills so new members can be certified to use the equipment and start their productions.

2010 orientations are scheduled on the following Wednesdays of every month at the CMC from 6 pm to 8 pm: January 20, February 17, March 17, April 21, May 19, June 16, July 21, August 18, September 15, October 20, November 17, December 15

Interested members can follow up their orientation with two basic certification classes, Field Production and Basic Editing, the following Saturday from 10am to 2pm. 2010 basic certification classes are scheduled for: January 23, February 20, March 20, April 24, May 22, June 19, July 24, August 21, September 18, October 23, November 20, December 18

Basic Certification (free with paid CMC membership)
A CMC member can receive basic certification in Field Production and Editing. Once certified, the member can reserve and use the CMC community edit, field cameras and microphones to produce their program.

Field Production - Learn how to use cameras, lights and microphones to create local television programming about your interests.
CMC members will be instructed on how to use field cameras, lights and microphones to put together basic programming. Each member will be trained and receive hands-on experience on proper camera set up and framing technique as well as basic audio and lighting principals and operations.

Basic Editing Certification - Learn how to take your footage and edit it together to create a story or package an event.
Introduction to Community Edit and Final Cut Pro. Members will learn the benefits of using hard drives and how to set and manage capture scratch files for editing. They will also be trained and receive hands-on experience with logging clips, editing logged clips in the Timeline sequence and using basic text graphics.


If you would like more information, please call 410-386-4415 or email jcavey@carrollmediacenter.org.