This past week Platt College San Diego 3D and Video students had an opportunity to visit a local studio here in San Diego. Hangar B Studios is the home of the Production Crate team. They are a local San Diego YouTube channel put on by Christopher Kelly. The team has grown to five since 2009 specializing in VFX, Motion Graphics, Sound FX, and Music. Our instructors connected with them and… Read More
Things To Do This Weekend There are two exciting events this weekend! Current students and alumni are participating in the San Diego Pin & Patch Con and InterGalactiCon. About The Two Events: San Diego Pin & Patch Con About: San Diego Pin & Patch Con is the world’s first wearable art convention. Patrons of the event mingle with their favorite artists and companies and alongside fellow pin & patch lovers…. Read More
Platt College San Diego hosts San Diego Advanced WordPress Meetup Tuesday 12 June 2018 @ 6PM Come ready to learn and share what you’ve been working on. Please RSVP at the Advanced WordPress Meetup page. Open Share Session: The format of this session will be open shares. Anyone who wants, will have the floor for 10 minutes to share anything they’ve been working on, learning about, or struggling with WordPress…. Read More
Platt College San Diego is offering a Video Editing with Adobe Premiere This course consists of four(4), four-hour sessions in which you will learn the basic techniques of editing videos using Abobe Premiere software. This class is completely hands-on using previously shot footage. Some of what the class covers: The Premiere Interface, Green Screen Editing, The Project Window, Creating Dynamic Titles, The Clip Window, Transparency, Transitions, Editing in the Timeline,… Read More
Nicole: Welcome to Platt College San Diego and our dynamic Platt Community. How long have you been teaching at Platt College? Zakaria: I have been teaching at Platt for two months. Nicole: What classes do you teach here at Platt? Zakaria: I am one of the Digital Video instructors, and I teach the screenwriting class and the two advanced video classes. Nicole: Can you tell us a little bit about… Read More
Dave Downes: Hi Fred, thanks for sitting down with me for this interview. I’ll dive right in, what is your background in the industry? Fred Winton: My pleasure, well I began working in Web Design in 1994, I worked for several small firms in San Diego. Mostly in web development, working front end, HTML, CSS, JavaScript. Hand coding websites, back then the web was much different than it is today…. Read More
On August 26, 1920, the 19th amendment was declared to the Constitution and after a courageous struggle, women were allowed to vote. The actual holiday began in 1971, when Congress formally affirmed August 26th a commemoration of women’s suffrage. In honor of Women’s Equality Day, we give acknowledgment to a few good women in the design field. Malika Favre is a London based French artist who is one of the… Read More
The Most Anticipated Shows and New Season Premieres Coming to Netflix This Year! Stranger Things: Season 2 Stranger Things: Season 2 will air October 27th of this year. Season 1 was phenomenal. This scary, science-fiction show is a period piece set in the 1980s. If one was a teen of the 1980s, Stranger Things will spark a sense of nostalgia, and Stephen King and Stephen Spielberg movies will come to mind. Picture a scary… Read More
Social networks like Instagram have provided the perfect outlet for designers to reach more people than ever before. If you want to grow your following one of the best ways you can do this is by getting featured by a curated account. We’ve researched some of the top design accounts on Instagram that you should be following and tagging in your posts for a chance to be featured. Some may… Read More
Writing your first script is a labor of love like no other—emphasis on the labor. Yes, you love film, or you wouldn’t be doing it. But even so, getting it down on paper is a real challenge when you’re new to this game. Here are our best tips for writing your first script. Choose a story you really love This should be your first goal. This story, its characters, and… Read More