Power Mac Center invites creaTECH kids to Summer Workshop 2019

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Create, Illustrate, Innovate, Orchestrate

This summer, nurture your kids’ innate creaTECH talent and discover their potential in art, animation, programming, vlogging, and video production. From May 6 to July 27, premier Apple partner Power Mac Center is holding summer workshops for kids and teens aged 7 to 16 years old. With a variety of courses to choose from, PMC Summer Workshop 2019 is offering a series of digital and non-digital workshops suited to your kids’ passion.

“Now on its 12th year, the PMC Summer Workshop is once again opening up playgrounds for kids as they explore the world, especially the exciting world of technology. Our workshops are designed to pave the way for the youth into the technology-driven future,” said Joey Alvarez, Power Mac Center Director of Product Management and Marketing.

Teaching kids through demos, lectures, hands-on trainings, and actual project creation, workshop courses include the following:

· Arts and Crafts.Encourage your kids’ creativity early on through this crafts-based workshop open to children four to six years old. Kids will experience creative and challenging activities involving art forms of different styles to allow them to discover their own style.

· Digital Arts and Animation. Sharpen your kids’ creative imagination with these hands-on workshops inMultimedia Animation suited for 7- to 12-year-olds. Attendees will be able to explore augmented reality and bring life to their envisioned worlds or delve into webtoon-making through classes on film conceptualization, creation of storyboard and characters, animation, and film editing.

· Swift Programming.Discover your kids’ Silicon Valley potential with a series of programming lessons catering to children aged 9-13. It is never too early to enroll your kids and let them find the young tech developers in them. Here, students will learn how to code in a fun and interactive way and create basic apps that are compatible with Apple devices.

· Technology in Performing Arts. Elevate your kids’ passion in the performing arts with workshop classes on video blogging, theater, and video production best suited for young techies aged 12-16. Perfect for aspiring social influencers and theater mavens, participants will be given in-depth lessons on video blogging — from conceptualization, video shooting, and editing, to uploading the final output online, or theatrical production via providing hands-on trainings and lessons on the use of digital backgrounds, additional video effects, and artistic projections.

The workshop rate is at P5,900 per student per course module, inclusive of the use of Apple devices with installed applications, as well as other learning materials required per course. Courses run for two hours each, with morning and afternoon schedules held at TriNoma and Greenbelt 3. At the end of the workshop, participants will be given a course kit with a certificate of participation and a flash drive containing the individual projects they created.

Interested parents and kids can visit PMC stores at Greenbelt 3 and TriNoma, or the Apple Authorized Global Training Provider office at Cedar Executive Building 1, Makati City to reserve slots. To learn more about the PMC Summer workshops, visit the website at <https://powermaccenter.com/summerworkshop2019/>.

Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino 3 Film Submission Extended

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To complete its final slate of films, the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP)’ Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino (PPP) is extending the deadline for submission of finished films or films in post-production stage until June 15, 2019.

Last March 28, the Agency held a press conference at Gloria Maris at Gateway Mall in Cubao, Quezon City to announce the first three (3) projects in the advanced stage of development or production stage that were selected to join PPP3’s lineup of films. “Cuddle Weather” by Rod Marmol from Project 8 corner San Joaquin Projects, “LSS (Last Song Syndrome)” by Jade Castro from Globe Studios, and “The Panti Sisters” by Perci Intalan from The IdeaFirst Company, Inc. rounded up the three (3) of eight (8) PPP films this year.

A co-production fund of up to 2 million pesos will be given to these projects, including 1 million pesos worth of production equipment sponsored by CMB Film Services.

For its call for the last five (5) slots in the lineup, PPP is accepting entries from Filipino independent production companies and major film studios.

Selected films will receive a co-production fund of up to 2 million pesos. This includes 1 million pesos worth of publicity and promotion support from sponsors and up to 1 million pesos worth of finishing funds or marketing and distribution grant, as approved by FDCP.

Guidelines and forms may be downloaded from http://fdcp.ph/programs/pista-ng-pelikulang-pilipino.

“We always make sure that PPP showcases films that cater to the different tastes of various audiences every year. For its third year, the first three films that we chose for PPP really inspired us, and we expect the remaining five films to add more excitement to the event and to offer more variety to the films we already selected,” said FDCP Chairperson and CEO Mary Liza Diño.

PPP, a week-long event that exclusively screens quality Filipino genre films in all theaters nationwide, officially marks the “Sandaan,” the celebration of the One Hundred Years of Philippine Cinema. Pursuant to the Presidential Proclamation 622 Series signed last November, FDCP, the country's film agency, is assigned to lead the Sandaan. This Proclamation was declared in honor of Jose Nepomuceno’s “Dalagang Bukid,” which is considered the first Filipino-produced and directed film that was released on September 12, 1919.

PPP will run in all theaters nationwide this September 2019. Fire and Ice Productions and CMB Film Services are proud sponsors of the event.

How To Grow Yourself On YouTube

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If you are a proud Youtuber or you are thinking to make YouTube as your career then you should keep these following basic tips in your mind. Before we proceed, I would like to discuss some modern-day benefits of making YouTube as your career and full-time income. As we all know that YouTube is a second popular search engine after Google and one of the most popular video sharing platform. There are more than a billion users on YouTube who are not only active but also so they are always curious about watching something unique every time.

Know your audience

There are thousands of topics which are already filled with a bundle of content on YouTube and every topic has its own audience. While Starting a YouTube channel you should consider researching about your target audience. Suppose you want to start a cooking channel so obviously your audience will include a housewife, people having interest in cooking and foodies. It was just an example to keep in mind that you always need to select those topics in which you have your personal interest. Copying someone just for the sake of views won't be beneficial for you because everyone has their own specialty so you should use your creativity skills instead of blindly copying instead of blindly e copying anyone else.

Wait for the results

Well, it's one of the most important parts of this article because more than 90% Youtubers quit after 1 month just because they are not getting any notable views. So if you want to become a successful Youtuber then you should seriously wait for the results even if you have to wait for one year because it's the time taking process but once you are succeeded in that it then the success will be long term.

Use online tools

As you know that YouTube allows you to use any footage as fair use, if you are making a documentary or your educating people about something then you have to copy e few seconds of its footage and use it in your own video just for the purpose of fair use. You don't need to use any offline downloaders because you can easily download and cut any YouTube video with https://odownloader.com which is a very famous video downloading and cutting website, especially for YouTube. With odownloader you can also convert any YouTube video into MP3 format for free.

We hope that your YouTube career will be bright and you will seriously follow these useful tips in your career to succeed earlier. At the end I would like to clarify the most important, Which is about waiting for results, if you read the history of popular Youtubers and especially check their oldest videos then you will come to a conclusion that in the start it’s quite difficult to get views and subscribers but once any of your videos becomes viral then and the Magic will happen anytime.