Entertainment

Area Four Industries a dynamic “think tank” corporation that guides activities with our Milos, Litec, Tomcat & JTE brands. 

 Vectorworks Spotlight Essentials Seminars (Code: MAGNUM) – 100% Discount on Vectorworks Training.  
ACT Online Courses – ACT Lighting is offering free online courses with promo code act4me until June 1, 2020 to help programmers during this period of social-distancing 
ETC Connect Courses – Temporarily free to the community 
ETC EOS Training and Workbooks – More free training material from ETC 
Vista by ChromaQ – Intro class to Vista 3 as well as an advanced programming class 
on Vista 
Obsidian Onyx Classes – Console Training 
Chamsys MagicQ Training – Video classes 
Chamsys “Stuck at Home” Programmers Challenge – Provides lighting pros with more than a creative outlet during slow times, it also offers a chance to win a new MagicQ MQ70 console 
Strand Console Training – Free 
Avixa CTS Certification Courses – Free through June 12 
USITT Teaching Archive – FREE online resource for teachers in areas of technical theater and live entertainment 
Avolites Online Learning – hosting live learning sessions on their Facebook page for both their Titan and Ai platforms 
Gaffer Systems 3D Modeling – Free training for their 3D Modeling/Visualization software 
LightWright6 – Free through June 1, 2020 – Helps designers and electricians record and keep track of the vast amount of data needed to install and maintain a lighting installation. 
Capture Student Edition and Demos – Great for creating small rigs that lighting designers can play with, will link with Nomad offline relatively easily 
Drafty App – CAD Tool with a few tutorials  

 MA University – Intensive training for all MA products. We are working with MA Lighting to offer a limited number of readers access to the full MA University training for free 

grandMA2 Tutorial Series – Youtube videos created by MA Lighting 
grandMA3 Tutorial Series – Youtube videos created by MA Lighting 
Christian Jackson’s MA2 Console Resource – Great tutorials on programming a show on grandMA2  

 HARMAN Professional University – Audio, control, and networked AV certification courses 
JBL CBT Calculator Training  – Video tutorial 
Crown Amplifier Training – Video Tutorials 
QSC QSYS level 1 – Always free. Great certification for an Audio Tech 
Dante level 1 and 2 (maybe 3) – Always free. Great certification for an Audio Tech  

• Cars: Past, Present & Future - Free Online Course - Michael Shanks, Stanford
• Crash Course in Design Thinking - Free Online Course - Stanford
• Design Thinking for Innovation - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - University of Virginia
• Digital Design - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Everything I Know - Free Online Lectures - Buckminster Fuller
• Fashion as Design - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - Museum of Modern Art
• Ideas from the History of Graphic Design - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)- Cal Arts
• Introduction to Design Thinking - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - Microsoft
• Introduction to Visual Design - Free Online Course - Carnegie Mellon
• Product Design: The Delft Design Approach - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - Delft University of Technology
• Video Game Design History - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - Rochester Institute of Technology

• An Introduction to Screenwriting - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - University of East Anglia
• Existentialism in Literature & Film – Free Online Audio - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
• Creative Activism - Free iTunes Audio - Peter Woodbridge, Coventry University
• Holocaust in Film and Literature – Free Online Course – Todd Presner, UCLA
• Introduction to Film Studies - Free Online Video - Free Video Download - Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan, IIT Madras
• Philosophy in Film and Other Media - Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Related Materials - Irving Singer, MIT
• The Film Experience - Free Online Course - David Thorburn, MIT
• Western Movies: Myth, Ideology, Genre - Free iTunes Video - Richard Slotkin, Wesleyan

• Basic Concepts of Music Theory - Free iTunes Video - Jamie Henke, U. of Wisconsin
• Dave Conservatoire (Music Theory Lessons) - Free Online Video - David Rees, Royal College of Music, London
• Free Music Courses (Multiple Offerings) - Free Online Video - Berklee College of Music
• Introduction to Pitch Systems in Tonal Music - Free Online Video + Course Info - Free Online Video - John Crooks, UC Irvine
• Introduction to Theatre and Drama Arts - Free Online Video - Missouri State, Robert Bradley
• Introduction to World Music - Free Online Video - Free iTunes Video - Syllabus - Missouri State, John Prescott
• Jazz and Culture - Free iTunes Audio - Andrew Barnes, Arizona State
• Listening to Music - Free Online Course - Craig Wright, Yale
• Musical Improvisation - Free iTunes Video - Mark Harvey & Tony Hall
• Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring: Modernism, Ballet, and Riots - Free Online Video - Thomas Forrest Kelly, Harvard
• The Ethics of Jazz (Lecture Series) - Free Online Lectures - Herbie Hancock, Harvard
• The Language of Music - Free iTunes Video - Free Online Video - Amy Muchnick, Missouri State
• The British Lectures - Free Online Lectures - Karlheinz Stockhausen
• The Unanswered Question: 6 Lectures on Music - Free Online Lectures - Leonard Bernstein, Harvard