This class is introductory and will cover the basics of the Set Decoration dept for Set Dressers including: 

- an overview of Department  breakdown and job descriptions

- tools and expendables for Set Dressers

- Etiquette for dealing with Decorators and Designers

- overview of common knots

To request attendance to this course, please send an email to training@iatse479.org. Please include your name along with Course Title and Date of the Course. 

Thank you, 

Kevin Amick, Local 479 Director of Education and Training

To request attendance to this course, please send an email to training@iatse479.org. Please include your name along with Course Title and Date of the Course. 

This training prepares an individual to understand the hazards involved in operating specific equipment. Course includes in-classroom and hands-on training for Mobile Elevated Work Platforms.

• Responsibilities as a user and operator
• Conducting a pre-start inspection
• Conducting a workplace inspection
• Various types of equipment
• Preventing accidents and identifying hazards in operation
• Teaching materials:
  • Safety guidelines booklet
  • Course completion wallet card

To request attendance to this course, please send an email to training@iatse479.org. Please include your name along with Course Title and Date of the Course.

This training prepares an individual to understand the hazards involved in operating specific equipment. Course includes in-classroom and hands-on training for Mobile Elevated Work Platforms.

Responsibilities as a user and operator

Conducting a pre-start inspection

Conducting a workplace inspection

Various types of equipment

Preventing accidents and identifying hazards in operation

Teaching materials:

Safety guidelines booklet

Course completion wallet card

Local 479 members, Nat Kendrick and Phillip Hogan, will be teaching a two day course On Set Electric and DMX. 

Class times will be 9:00AM to 4:00PM each day.

To request attendance to this course, please send an email to training@iatse479.org. Please include your name along with Course Title and Date of the Course. 

Local 479 members, Nat Kendrick and Phillip Hogan, will be teaching a two day course On Set Electric and DMX. 

Class times will be 9:00AM to 4:00PM each day.

To request attendance to this course, please send an email to training@iatse479.org. Please include your name along with Course Title and Date of the Course. 

To request attendance to this course, please send an email to training@iatse479.org. Please include your name along with Course Title and Date of the Course. 

This training prepares an individual to understand the hazards involved in operating specific equipment. Course includes in-classroom and hands-on training for FORKLIFTS.

• Responsibilities as a user and operator
• Conducting a pre-start inspection
• Conducting a workplace inspection
• Various types of equipment
• Preventing accidents and identifying hazards in operation
• Teaching materials:
  • Safety guidelines booklet
  • Course completion wallet card

To request attendance to this course, please send an email to training@iatse479.org. Please include your name along with Course Title and Date of the Course.

This training prepares an individual to understand the hazards involved in operating specific equipment. Course includes in-classroom and hands-on training for Mobile Elevated Work Platforms.

• Responsibilities as a user and operator
• Conducting a pre-start inspection
• Conducting a workplace inspection
• Various types of equipment
• Preventing accidents and identifying hazards in operation
• Teaching materials:
  • Safety guidelines booklet
  • Course completion wallet card

To request attendance to this course, please send an email to training@iatse479.org. Please include your name along with Course Title and Date of the Course.

This training prepares an individual to understand the hazards involved in operating specific equipment. Course includes in-classroom and hands-on training for Mobile Elevated Work Platforms.

Responsibilities as a user and operator

Conducting a pre-start inspection

Conducting a workplace inspection

Various types of equipment

Preventing accidents and identifying hazards in operation

Teaching materials:

Safety guidelines booklet

Course completion wallet card

Class will be at the Lightscape Lighting/Ratpac Controls facility located at 640 Airport S Pkwy, Atlanta, GA 30349, USA. 


DMX Control for the Lighting Programmer & Set Lighting Technician

DMX Control for the Lighting Programmer & SetLighting Technician teaches students to understand how to use DMX for Television Shows and Feature Films. The class breaks the subject into a manageable progression of skills, starting with the basics of running DMX Cables, tools required for troubleshooting, understanding the basic concepts of how DMX works, and using those skills so that Set Lighting Technician, Programmer and CLT Can work together to implement the complex tools of control and more effectively light the set.

Topics to include: 

How to runDMX Cable.

What toolsare required on set to work with DMX.

What is thephilosophy of how DMX and the lighting console interact with the lightingfixtures to effect control of the lighting rug.

How toaddress and profile different lighting fixtures.

Determining Channelvs. DMX.

How to createarchitecture and structure to lay out the DMX, Channels, and IP address of yourlighting rig.

Helpingprepare students for the Reality of shooting on set, vs. the safer space oftraining in the classroom.

The class hasthree tests, where students can demonstrate their understanding of the classmaterials.

To request attendance to this course, please send an email to training@iatse479.org. Please include your name along with Course Title and Date of the Course. 

Thank you, 

Kevin Amick, Local 479 Director of Education and Training

To request attendance to this course, please send an email to training@iatse479.org. Please include your name along with Course Title and Date of the Course.

This training prepares an individual to understand the hazards involved in operating specific equipment. Course includes in-classroom and hands-on training for Mobile Elevated Work Platforms.

• Responsibilities as a user and operator
• Conducting a pre-start inspection
• Conducting a workplace inspection
• Various types of equipment
• Preventing accidents and identifying hazards in operation
• Teaching materials:
  • Safety guidelines booklet
  • Course completion wallet card

On Saturday and Sunday,  August, 13th - 14th, here in the Education Center Workshop 2, Marc Shearer with Skylight Georgia, will be teaching, The Balloon Technician 101 and 102.

This course will cover the basics of safe, effective light balloon operation. Topics covered will include assembly, inflation, operation, deflation and disassembly of LED,Tungsten, HMI, Hybrid, Sodium Vapor and Metal Halide lighting balloons. Also covered will be the basic shapes of the balloons, the safe handling of compressed gasses, and the physics involved in operating a floating light source.

Saturday August, 13th
12PM - 6:00PM
Ballon Technician 101
Intro
Small Balloon building

Sunday August, 14th
10:00AM - 4:00PM
Ballon Technician 102
Skybox build
Large Balloon building

Must attend the Ballon Technician 101 to be able to attend Ballon Technician 102. 

We currently have 25 openings for this class.

As with all training here at Local 479, you must be a member in good standing to attend. 

To request attendance to this course, please send an email to training@iatse479.org. Please include your name along with Course Title and Date of the Course. 

Thank you, 

Kevin Amick, Local 479 Director of Education and Training

Class will be at the Lightscape Lighting/Ratpac Controls facility located at 640 Airport S Pkwy, Atlanta, GA 30349, USA. 


DMX Control for the Lighting Programmer & Set Lighting Technician

DMX Control for the Lighting Programmer & SetLighting Technician teaches students to understand how to use DMX for Television Shows and Feature Films. The class breaks the subject into a manageable progression of skills, starting with the basics of running DMX Cables, tools required for troubleshooting, understanding the basic concepts of how DMX works, and using those skills so that Set Lighting Technician, Programmer and CLT Can work together to implement the complex tools of control and more effectively light the set.

Topics to include: 

How to runDMX Cable.

What toolsare required on set to work with DMX.

What is thephilosophy of how DMX and the lighting console interact with the lightingfixtures to effect control of the lighting rug.

How toaddress and profile different lighting fixtures.

Determining Channelvs. DMX.

How to createarchitecture and structure to lay out the DMX, Channels, and IP address of yourlighting rig.

Helpingprepare students for the Reality of shooting on set, vs. the safer space oftraining in the classroom.

The class hasthree tests, where students can demonstrate their understanding of the classmaterials.

To request attendance to this course, please send an email to training@iatse479.org. Please include your name along with Course Title and Date of the Course. 

Thank you, 

Kevin Amick, Local 479 Director of Education and Training

On Saturday and Sunday,  August, 13th - 14th, here in the Education Center Workshop 2, Marc Shearer with Skylight Georgia, will be teaching, The Balloon Technician 101 and 102.

This course will cover the basics of safe, effective light balloon operation. Topics covered will include assembly, inflation, operation, deflation and disassembly of LED,Tungsten, HMI, Hybrid, Sodium Vapor and Metal Halide lighting balloons. Also covered will be the basic shapes of the balloons, the safe handling of compressed gasses, and the physics involved in operating a floating light source.

Saturday August, 13th
12PM - 6:00PM
Ballon Technician 101
Intro
Small Balloon building

Sunday August, 14th
10:00AM - 4:00PM
Ballon Technician 102
Skybox build
Large Balloon building

Must attend the Ballon Technician 101 to be able to attend Ballon Technician 102. 

We currently have 25 openings for this class.

As with all training here at Local 479, you must be a member in good standing to attend. 

To request attendance to this course, please send an email to training@iatse479.org. Please include your name along with Course Title and Date of the Course. 

Thank you, 

Kevin Amick, Local 479 Director of Education and Training

This is a hands-on class so wear appropriate clothing for the skills being taught.

Please bring your aging kit if you have one.

In order to attend this class, you must be a Local 479 member and in good standing.

To request attendance to this course, please send an email to training@iatse479.org. Please include your name along with Course Title and Date of the Course. 

Thank you, 

Kevin Amick, Local 479 Director of Education and Training

To request attendance to this course, please send an email to training@iatse479.org. Please include your name along with Course Title and Date of the Course. 

This training prepares an individual to understand the hazards involved in operating specific equipment. Course includes in-classroom and hands-on training for Mobile Elevated Work Platforms.

• Responsibilities as a user and operator
• Conducting a pre-start inspection
• Conducting a workplace inspection
• Various types of equipment
• Preventing accidents and identifying hazards in operation
• Teaching materials:
  • Safety guidelines booklet
  • Course completion wallet card

Local 479 member Lynn Johanson with be doing a two-day workshop on Set Painting 101, Introduction to Set Painting. 

The course will cover the basics of working in the paint departments crafts, tools and tricks of the trade, housekeeping, prepping and painting will venture in to the different types of sprayers, applications, the different techniques, cleaning and storing and additional safety precautions needed when working with sprayers. This will be a hands on workshop, come wearing your work clothes, you're gonna need them. 

To request attendance to this course, please send an email to training@iatse479.org. Please include your name along with Course Title and Date of the Course. 

Thank you, 

Kevin Amick, 

Local 479 Director of Education and Training

To request attendance to this course, please send an email to training@iatse479.org. Please include your name along with Course Title and Date of the Course. 

This training prepares an individual to understand the hazards involved in operating specific equipment. Course includes in-classroom and hands-on training for Mobile Elevated Work Platforms.

• Responsibilities as a user and operator
• Conducting a pre-start inspection
• Conducting a workplace inspection
• Various types of equipment
• Preventing accidents and identifying hazards in operation
• Teaching materials:
  • Safety guidelines booklet
  • Course completion wallet card

Local 479 member Lynn Johanson with be doing a two-day workshop on Set Painting 101, Introduction to Set Painting. 

The course will cover the basics of working in the paint departments crafts, tools and tricks of the trade, housekeeping, prepping and painting will venture in to the different types of sprayers, applications, the different techniques, cleaning and storing and additional safety precautions needed when working with sprayers. This will be a hands on workshop, come wearing your work clothes, you're gonna need them. 

To request attendance to this course, please send an email to training@iatse479.org. Please include your name along with Course Title and Date of the Course. 

Thank you, 

Kevin Amick, 

Local 479 Director of Education and Training

To request attendance to this course, please send an email to training@iatse479.org. Please include your name along with Course Title and Date of the Course.

This training prepares an individual to understand the hazards involved in operating specific equipment. Course includes in-classroom and hands-on training for FORKLIFTS.

Responsibilities as a user and operator

Conducting a pre-start inspection

Conducting a workplace inspection

Various types of equipment

Preventing accidents and identifying hazards in operation

Teaching materials:

Safety guidelines booklet

Course completion wallet card