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Musical Fun with Fuzzy

Musical Fun with Fuzzy

Musical Fun With Fuzzy introduces younger children to the joys of active music-making through singing, speaking, moving, dancing, playing and creating. Make your own Fuzzy the Clown pop-up puppet and learn the basic elements of music.

Create a Documentary

Shocko Doco

Shocko Doco introduces you to the concept of video interviewing. You will see the common mistakes that are made, and consider ways to fix them. Once you know the pitfalls to avoid, you can plan and shoot your own video interviews.

Design a Magazine Cover

Design a Magazine Cover

Take a look at how magazine covers are designed to attract attention by using colour, fonts, words and images that appeal to their target audience. Over five lessons, you’ll learn how to plan and lay out your own magazine cover based on a topic of your choice.

Add Sound to a Stop Motion Animation

Add Sound To Your Animation

A sound score is a track of sound effects and music that accompanies a film or animation. A Foley artist brings the moving image to life by creating this track. In this set of five lessons you’ll learn how to use a collection of found objects to create a fun and interesting sound score to … Read more

Create a Stop Motion Animation

Create a Stop Motion Animation

Stop Motion is a basic form of animation where a set of still photos, played in a rapid sequence, creates the illusion of movement. It follows the same basic principle as a flip book. Stop Motion Animation is a really fun way to learn the basics of film making and animation. This course, over six … Read more

How to create a storyboard

How To Create A Storyboard

Storyboarding is a way of telling a story through pictures, and is often used to develop concepts for TV and film. The process involves writing a story, breaking it down into simple actions, and then drawing it in pictures. Storyboarding can help to decide what shot type will best capture the information you want to … Read more

Junk Percussion Techniques

Junk Percussion Collection

Welcome to ARTS:LIVE’s Junk Percussion Collection! These courses will help you to use readily available, found and recycled objects, and learn new percussion techniques to make original sounds. Once you start you won’t be able to stop! That’s OK, we have plenty of songs for you to test your new skills on in the Song … Read more

Improvisation Starters

Improvisation Starters Compilation

Drama is a dynamic practice that introduces students to a world of movement, pretend and play. Improvisation Starters is all that and more! Improvisation is an important element of drama that will have you thinking creatively and build confidence. Through Improvisation Starters, you’ll participate in warm-ups and games that can be as simple as you … Read more

How to play the drums

How to Play the Drums

Grab your drum sticks and hit it! Master the basics of drumming, from setting up the kit to playing your own beat with fills. The How to Play Drums course has been developed to teach the fundamentals of drumming and rhythm techniques. The course is designed for individuals and group ensembles over 13 comprehensive tutorials.

How to play guitar

How to Play the Guitar

Fancy yourself as a singer/song writer? Learn the fundamentals of playing a guitar, reading music, composing music and individual practice techniques with this comprehensive 12 lesson guitar course. By the conclusion of this course, students will have learned how to play five essential guitar chords, which can be combined in a variety of ways and … Read more