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

There are 5 seats available for this class

To request attendance to this course, please send an email to [email protected]. Please include your name along with Course Title and Date of the Course. 

Thank you, 

Kevin Amick, 

Local 479 Director of Education and Training

INTRO TO ELECTRIC DEPT—bring your gloves

We will cover all aspects of the job of lamp operator, including productions from the largest to the smallest.

Day 1

History

Overview of functions and integration of grip, elec, cam departments

Inventory and care of equipment, call sheets and timecards

Tools and personal kit

The truck

Walkies

Rigging

Power distribution 

Generators

Safety

Day 2

Stands

Tungsten

HMI

LED

Gels, soft goods,  all other expendables 

Knots, ropes

More Safety


To attend this course, please send an email to [email protected] with the course dates, title and your full legal name. Thank you.

Kevin Amick, Local 479 Director of Education and Training

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

There are 5 seats available for this class

To request attendance to this course, please send an email to [email protected]. Please include your name along with Course Title and Date of the Course. 

Thank you, 

Kevin Amick, 

Local 479 Director of Education and Training

INTRO TO ELECTRIC DEPT—bring your gloves

We will cover all aspects of the job of lamp operator, including productions from the largest to the smallest.

Day 1

History

Overview of functions and integration of grip, elec, cam departments

Inventory and care of equipment, call sheets and timecards

Tools and personal kit

The truck

Walkies

Rigging

Power distribution 

Generators

Safety

Day 2

Stands

Tungsten

HMI

LED

Gels, soft goods,  all other expendables 

Knots, ropes

More Safety


To attend this course, please send an email to [email protected] with the course dates, title and your full legal name. Thank you.

Kevin Amick, Local 479 Director of Education and Training

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

There are 5 seats available for this class

To request attendance to this course, please send an email to [email protected]. Please include your name along with Course Title and Date of the Course. 

Thank you, 

Kevin Amick, 

Local 479 Director of Education and Training

Instructor: Elizabeth Groves

Food Stylist and Food Historian covering 20 years of experience

Food Styling Course

This course will provide an overview of a 20-year career of a Food Stylist/Food Historian. Participants will be introduced to the tools of the trade and real experiences in your endeavor to becoming a Food Stylist.

The attendee will receive technical and practical knowledge for workingas a Food Stylist in TV and film. There will be a focus on in-depthexplanations of proper food handling, time management of a Food Stylist,Organizing, understanding food life and death, understanding dietaryrestrictions, introduction to equipment, when is artificial the better choiceand hands on demonstrations and why learning photographyfor yourself will only make you better and is much needed.

Even though Food Styling, Production catering and Craft service serve food. They are separate crafts and serve different purposes on set. This course will explain the differences. It will also show why a Food Styling skill applied on set is safer in many ways and why.

There are 20 seats available for this class

To request attendance to this course, please send an email to [email protected]. 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 American Heart Association Heartsaver CPR and AED course was the first in the nation to combine hands-on AED instruction with CPR training. The course teaches the basic techniques of adult, child, and infant CPR and use of an AED.

Students also learn to use barrier devices in CPR and give first aid for choking in the responsive victim. The course teaches how to recognize the signs of three major emergencies: heart attack, stroke, and choking.

Spotlight Drafting is a two-session course, that teaches motion picture professionals how to use Vectorworks Spotlight to create Light Plots for film and television

Vectorworks 103 High Intermediate Concepts
This class makes the jump to drafting completely in 3D. We re-create a set from the Major Motion Picture Dr. Sleep where we recreate the exact materials that are necessary to be presented at the highest level of film and television production.

Vectorworks 104 Advanced Concepts
This class focuses on 3D modeling and complex Rendering. We craft a 3D lighting device and use this exercise to familiarize the students with the tools and processes to create full and complete 3D models and renderings.

Suggested Prerequisite: Completion of the 101/102 module or commensurate drafting experience.

What is this course about?
Vectorworks Spotlight training Class (2 Day Class) teaches students to use the CAD (Computer Assisted Drafting) program Vectorworks Spotlight to make light plots and 3D Renderings of sets and lighting instruments & environments.

What will course participants learn in this course?
Students will learn skills including 3D Drafting, 3D modeling and rendering, and creating draft plots of complex lighting systems and professional level output and reports. Students will also learn complex symbol creation, how to create reports and how to facilitate database maintenance.

There are 30 seats available for this workshop

To request attendance to this course, please send an email to [email protected]. Please include your name along with Course Title and Date of the Course. 

Thank you, 

Kevin Amick, Local 479 Director of Education and Training

Instructor: Elizabeth Groves

Food Stylist and Food Historian covering 20 years of experience

Food Styling Course

This course will provide an overview of a 20-year career of a Food Stylist/Food Historian. Participants will be introduced to the tools of the trade and real experiences in your endeavor to becoming a Food Stylist.

The attendee will receive technical and practical knowledge for workingas a Food Stylist in TV and film. There will be a focus on in-depthexplanations of proper food handling, time management of a Food Stylist,Organizing, understanding food life and death, understanding dietaryrestrictions, introduction to equipment, when is artificial the better choiceand hands on demonstrations and why learning photographyfor yourself will only make you better and is much needed.

Even though Food Styling, Production catering and Craft service serve food. They are separate crafts and serve different purposes on set. This course will explain the differences. It will also show why a Food Styling skill applied on set is safer in many ways and why.

There are 20 seats available for this class

To request attendance to this course, please send an email to [email protected]. Please include your name along with Course Title and Date of the Course. 

Thank you, 

Kevin Amick, 

Local 479 Director of Education and Training

Spotlight Drafting is a two-session course, that teaches motion picture professionals how to use Vectorworks Spotlight to create Light Plots for film and television

Vectorworks 103 High Intermediate Concepts
This class makes the jump to drafting completely in 3D. We re-create a set from the Major Motion Picture Dr. Sleep where we recreate the exact materials that are necessary to be presented at the highest level of film and television production.

Vectorworks 104 Advanced Concepts
This class focuses on 3D modeling and complex Rendering. We craft a 3D lighting device and use this exercise to familiarize the students with the tools and processes to create full and complete 3D models and renderings.

Suggested Prerequisite: Completion of the 101/102 module or commensurate drafting experience.

What is this course about?
Vectorworks Spotlight training Class (2 Day Class) teaches students to use the CAD (Computer Assisted Drafting) program Vectorworks Spotlight to make light plots and 3D Renderings of sets and lighting instruments & environments.

What will course participants learn in this course?
Students will learn skills including 3D Drafting, 3D modeling and rendering, and creating draft plots of complex lighting systems and professional level output and reports. Students will also learn complex symbol creation, how to create reports and how to facilitate database maintenance.

There are 30 seats available for this workshop

To request attendance to this course, please send an email to [email protected]. Please include your name along with Course Title and Date of the Course. 

Thank you, 

Kevin Amick, Local 479 Director of Education and Training