Tuesday, June 23, 2009

University Exams

The Dibrugarh University Examinations for the Degree and Diploma students are happening.

Monday, June 15, 2009

SAE CAREER CONNECT

Chennai, 9th June 2009: SAE Career Connect

SAE Career Connect - A two-day open house workshop was organized by SAE, one of India’s leading media education colleges, along with Access Atlantech Edutainment (I) Ltd. The fest received an overwhelming response from many aspiring media enthusiasts, who walked in with immense anticipation and excitement. 

The SAE College campus at Chennai transformed into a Centre for Excellence for two days on the 6th and 7th of June 2009, showcasing a wide array of media courses to choose from and shape a student’s career. The carnival threw lights on the alternative career options that are available in the field of media and entertainment and was attended by more than 100 participants along with their parents. 

The SAE Career Connect the first of its kind initiative, was stretched over two days with interesting activities like workshops, seminars and many more entertaining sessions that kindled the creative aspect in the minds of the participants. It showcased the content production process like the making of a film, an animated sequence and music production as well. Highly qualified SAE faculties provided comprehensive hands-on workshops involving participants and guided them to visualize an exciting world of animation, Digital Film Making and RecordingArts. 

The workshop sessions provided in-depth insights in the following streams of media studies:

  • Animation for Games
  • Recording Arts
  • Digital Film Making

The Animation and Games workshop outlined the process involved in creating animation for films and also making/adapting animation for a 3D Game. This included creating environments, character modeling, character animation, Claymation techniques and compositing footage in the virtual world of gaming.

The Recording Arts workshop highlighted two broad processes, one to do with composing of a song/ remixing of a song and the process of post-production in sound. This included various techniques like dialog editing, audio-video sync, special effects production and background music scoring.

The Digital Film Making workshop showcased the process involved in the making of a short film sequence. This included script, storyboard and screenplay techniques, shooting using green screen, props construction, miniature model shoot, compositing the sequence to edit and post-production techniques.

Mr.Rathish Babu – CEO, Access Atlantech Edutainment (I) Ltd. said; “The Workshop was aimed at exhibiting production processes involved in audio, digital film and animation content production. It was heartening to note that eminent personalities, senior academicians and students appreciated the concept and have agreed to be a part of such larger workshops in future.” 

Prominent industry personalities like Mr.Madhu Ambat- famed cinematographer & two-time National Award winner, Ms.Sharadha Ramanathan-National Award wining Film Director and Ms.Leena Manimekalai – Film Director shared their thoughts and experiences with the budding media aspirants, giving them valuable insights on entertainment related media careers in their respective domains. 

While Mr.Madhu Ambat was addressing the media, he said “It was a good experience for students wanting to get into the film and media field. SAE needs to conduct specialized professional workshops to enable students to launch themselves with better skill sets.” 


During Ms.Sharadha Ramanadhan’s session with the media, she expressed, “As an alumnus of SAE I am seeing quite a lot of exciting equipment and technology. Art is really being treated at SAE and the film students with audio engineers and animators have really made a big difference to the workshops. The content is far superior akin to other showcasing done across.”

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

SAE Career Connect - An Open House for Media Education

Come experience your future career @ SAE !!

If you have a vision to be a part of the dream factory, SAE gives you the platform to reach your destination. 

The SAE College campus at Chennai will transform into a Centre for Excellence for two days on the 6th and 7th of June 2009, showcasing a wide array of media courses to choose from and shape your career. The carnival will be an eye-opener for students looking at alternative career opportunities in the field of media and entertainment. 

The SAE Career Connect will be spread over two days of interesting activities like workshops, seminars and many more entertaining sessions that would kindle the creative aspect in the minds of the participants.

Highly qualified SAE faculties are set to provide a comprehensive hands-on workshops involving participants and guiding them to visualize an exciting world of animation, Digital Film Making and Recording Arts.

The workshop sessions will provide in-depth insights in the following streams of media studies:

* Animation for Games
* Recording Arts
* Digital Film Making

The participants will be lead through a stimulating journey of pre-production, production and Post-production thereby exposing them to a complete new experience of creation and execution of ideas come alive in terms of music, films and animation. 

Prominent industry personalities will also be sharing their thoughts and experiences with the budding media aspirants, giving them valuable insights on entertainment related media careers in their respective domains. 

So come and be a part of a wonderful world of edutainment and discover the various opportunities available to explore exciting careers. Walk into SAE and take the first step towards identifying and shaping you in becoming a successful media professional.

A Certificate Course in Television Production

SAE's television production course is designed to bridge the gap in the industry in getting the best television trained talents to work in the medium. Currently, there is no course matching our Television Production course, in equipping the students will all necessary skills to work in a full-fletched Television Programme in various genres, straight after getting their certificate, because this is the only course which trains students on-hand on how to be involved in the A-Z creation of a Reality Show, a Game Show , a Serial or a talk show, while also learning the processes, the creatives and technologies behind it, both in indoor and outdoor production.

 

An Intensive Course on Animation

SAE has introduced a specialized course in animation which focuses on key areas of 3D Animation from ideating concept to rendering a full fledged 3D animated movie.

The course is divided into four specialized areas of a 3D Animated Movie Making;

  • Preproduction for Animation
  • 3D Modeling
  • 3D Animation
  • Post Production

In preproduction students are introduced to sketching and developing backgrounds and characters for the 3D Animation.  Digital painting helps them to convert these dream sketches into Digital artworks which can suitably be drawn into Animation with well planned script and story boarding.  The Preproduction lay the foundation to create amazing 3D backgrounds in 3D Modeling and Animation Modules to follow, where the students learn to transfer their creative imagination to 3D outputs in terms of Character modeling, Props, Environment and animating them manually with keys and simulation.  No animated film is effective without scintillating effects and audio synchronization which will be exposed in their last module, Post production. Overall the students will be introduced to 3D Animation Film Making process and their production pipeline.

Intensive course on Animation (ICA) guides students and customizes the software applications such as Maya, 3DsMax, Mudbox, Motion Builder, Combustion, Photoshop and Premier to create effortless animation and make your imaginations come true.

Friday, May 15, 2009

AAT and SAE introduce affordable certificate courses in 3D Animation and Television Production

·         12 month certification course in Animation and Television Production

·         Course fee to be less than 1 lakh per course

·         Certifications recognized by SAE Institute

·         Admissions open for the Animation course

·         TV production course to commence in July 2009

Chennai: April ___ 2009: SAE, the world’s largest media Education College through its exclusive Indian partner Access Atlantech Edutainment (I) Ltd, has introduced two new certificate courses in Animation and Television production and has announced the admissions for the two courses.

The Intensive course in 3D Animation and the Intensive course in Television production is spread over 12 months and is an international certification recognized by SAE Institute.

The above mentioned courses are being offered across the campuses of AAT (Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore)

The practically Intensive course in 3D animation includes the basics of animation, pre-production for animation, 3D Modeling, 3D animation and Post-production. The softwares that will be taught are Adobe Photoshop, 3D Max, Maya, Mud Box and Motion Builder. The compositing and editing software taught will be Combustion and Adobe Premier.

The practically Intensive course in Television Production includes the basics in understanding television as a medium, introduction to TV production genres, pre-production, production and post-production. The students will receive hands-on training in various TV genres like news production, reality shows, game shows and serial production.

Both these certificate courses will be priced at an affordable fee of less than Rs.1 lakh per course.

Speaking on the announcement of the courses, Mr. Rathish Babu, CEO, Access Atlantech Edutainment (I) Ltd., said, “Surveys done by us in Metros and tier II cities have thrown up a major opportunity for courses catering to regional needs of the burgeoning TV and mobile user base. It’s a long term approach we have aimed at with these courses and would be further widening the scope into related areas of the industry.”

The course in Television production is scheduled to commence in July 2009 and application and prospectus would be available in all AAT centres across India till June 30th 2009. Admissions for the course in animation will begin from the 1st of May 2009.

For more information on the certification Programmes, you can contact counselors at 044-28214045/011-41631195/022-32501968/080-41280156/ Mobile – 9962516000 or mail us at:enquiry@saeindia.net or SMS: 58888, www.saeindia.net

 The Indian Media And Entertainment industry is expected to grow at an annual growth rate of 19% to reach Rs 83,740 crore by 2010 and the expected CAGR of the Television industry in India till the year 2010 is 24%. As per The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa) survey of 2003 The cable and satellite industry in India will grow by 45% by 2010 and one of the key markets in Asia Pacific will be India with 53.35 million subscribers. Also the advent of Digital TV will be singled out as the hottest industry development for the next decade.

 As per the NASSCOMM study on the Indian Animation Industry the size of the Indian animation market was estimated at USD 285 million in 2005. It is expected to witness a CAGR of 35 percent from 2005-2009 and increase to USD 950 million by 2009. The entertainment sector contributes as much as 68 percent of the total Indian animation market. In entertainment, the share of fully animated movies is expected to increase significantly, from 15 percent in 2005 to 28 percent by 2009.