We believe that these workshops are really apt for:

1. -people who are in the decision-making phase before setting their first academic or professional step into these creative domains
   

1. -people who are passionate about music/film making and just need some direction and orientation, but at the same time cannot afford time, money and willingness for full time courses etc.
   

1. -for people who, beyond their key occupations/engagements, are looking for an alternate creative engagement or a creative form of expression. These people may be school/college students, working professionals or even individuals retired from their occupations but still looking for a satisfying creative engagement.
   

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Here’s some summarized information about the who/how/why/whens and some other key aspects of these workshops.

A) The workshops that we offer:

(1) My Music - Music Composition Counseling/Orientation Workshop

(2) My Movies - Film Making Counseling/Orientation Workshop

B) About us:

To know more about us and our creative explorations, please explore the website www.adityapathakcreations.com [www(dot)adityapathakcreations(dot)com]

C) About the workshops:

Please read the “The evolution of these workshops” section given below and the information given on the pages “Workshops - My Music” and “Workshops - My Movies” on our website (www.adityapathakcreations.com)

D) How to participate:

Please drop us an email at our email id adityapathak.music@gmail.com [adityapathak(dot)music(at)gmail(dot)com] expressing your interest in participating in the workshop of your choice (My Music or My Movies or both) and also mentioning about the below mentioned points in brief:

1. 1.A brief Bio-data of yours, mentioning your Name, Age, Sex, Residential Address, Contact details and a good-quality current profile photograph of yours.
   

2. 2.A brief introduction about your academic and professional profiles
   

3. 3.Any past experience with music composition/film making at amateur or professional levels. Please also mention about your involvement in any allied domains like performing live music, study of classical music, photography, post-processing of photographs, theater etc.
   

4. 4.Your expectations from these workshops.
   

5. 5.A brief about your future aspirations and plans in the domains of music/film-making.
   

We’ll then respond to your emails guiding you about the next steps for the workshop.

Note: Please stay tuned in for our responses and kindly add our email id in your contact lists - just to ensure that our responses do not land in your junk/bulk mail folders by any chance :)

E) Key Audio-Visual equipment at our home-studio

1. -Apple iMac Computer
   

2. -Dell Inspiron Core i5 Laptop
   

3. -Apogee Duet Portable Audio Interface
   

4. -Yamaha 61 Keys Keyboard with MIDI
   

5. -AKG C214 Condenser Mic
   

6. -AKG C5 Condenser Mic
   

7. -Shure SM 58 Dynamic Mic
   

8. -Philips Dynamic Mic
   

9. -Mic Stands
   

10. -Editors Key Vocal Booth with Pop Filter
    

11. -BOSS VE20 Vocal Processor
    

12. -High End Connectors
    

13. -Technics DJ Headphones
    

14. -Philips Headphones
    

15. -Senon 8 Channel Stereo Headphone Amp
    

16. -Apple Logic Studio, Garage Band
    

17. -reFx NEXUS2 synth
    

18. -ZOOM Guitar Processor
    

19. -Stranger Amp
    

20. -Walden Concorda Acoustic/Semi-electric Guitar
    

21. -Exhaustive Sample Libraries
    

22. -Various Percussion Instruments
    

23. -Apple Final Cut Studio, iMovie
    

24. -Sony HDR XR550E (HDD) Handycam
    

25. -Sony VCT-80AV Hydraulic Head Remote Control Tripod
    

26. -Sony VCT-R640 Tripod
    

27. -Sony ECM-HGZ1 External Microphone for Handycam
    

28. -Sony ECM-HW2 External Wireless (Bluetooth) Microphone for Handycam
    

29. -Sony Bravia 32inch Full HD LED TV
    

30. -Lacie d2 Quadra 2TB and 320GB external FW800 Hard Disks
    

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The evolution of these workshops

(My story so far - by Aditya)

Let me walk you through past few years while music-composition and film-making were happening to me. May be you can correlate and hence understand the workshops better.

Few years back, when I had lived a considerable time as a typical individual living in a metropolitan, from a middle-class family, earning my bread from an IT company - I decided to flex some of my creative muscles. I had been playing some home-keyboards and strumming my local made acoustic guitar since school days now. I wanted to move ahead with that and thus started exploring music composition.

Some questions that used to pop-up in my head often were:

- How do they make these songs ?

- From where can I learn all that ?

- Do I need to quit my job for this ? How will I earn ??

- Where do you get all those high-end studio gizmos and gadgets ?

- And, above all, how much money do I need to spend to become a music-composer??

..and a few million more such questions.

Having no contacts as such in this domain there wasn’t much I could I expect from outside the internet. It did take a lot of time for me to find out a few half-baked answers for these questions. It was a totally unknown territory for me and thus I had my share of inhibitions in risking to step into these lands !

Though late, but then I could finally figure out a place where I could learn this art. Also, due to my IT job, that I had sensibly decided not to quit, I could manage enough funds to learn the skill and also build up a basic setup for my very own home studio - though the complete experience costed me around a whole year’s salary ! But it was worth it and I still cherish it as one of my best decisions in life :)

I used to wonder if I had an elder brother or a friend who was a music composer too and who could guide me about the way ahead :) Well, if that was to happen, I am sure I would have saved a lot of time and efforts and also I wouldn’t have had those inhibitions.

So, here’s one area where I think I can now help a few more creative individuals who are aspiring to get a glimpse into the world of Music Creation.

Now, when I started making some music, I wanted to express myself musically to the world. In simpler words, I wanted to show-off my music to  everyone around :) Now this desire led me to explore various online portals where I could share my music. I also saw several other artistes out there on the web and got newer ideas.

Believe me, with the advent of technology today, your own home computer equipped with a simple Internet connection, can help you create music, share music, even sell your creations and do lots more. You just need to have a creative attitude towards applying technology to your use.

Here again I believe I can share my experiences and knowledge about this aspect of creative expressions - the Internet !

Moving on with my story again - along-with all that music happening in my life, now I realize that I was also fond of clicking photos. I remember my first electronic purchase from my own salary was a Canon Digicam. In-fact I even used it to record videos of my small musical performances often. I then started exploring how to make videos for my songs - where and how to publish them, etc. I remember creating my first ‘music video’ with just simple still photographs which were just transitioning from one photo to another following the beat of the song. I was so happy with that :) A little more exploration here and I then started actually shooting some stuff with my small digicam.

I again wanted to raise the bar now. This time, I was a better aware and focused seeker on the Internet :) I managed to find a place where I could learn the art of making films. Yet again I had to manage funds and more than that, the responsibilities at my IT job had also increased. But eventually I did manage to arrange for the funds. Time and effort-wise it was really challenging and exhausting at times. But then again - the creative satisfaction it gave is immense - Priceless indeed !

Since then I’ve been doing a lot of shooting with my handy-cam, editing at my home-studio. I’ve also been covering videos for live events like music-concerts and editing out a final crisp product from the footage - and of-course creating simple graphics and shots from my ‘music videos’ :) Also, at my IT job also, besides my Engineering roles, I’ve also been involved in making various films for the corporate - covering technical events, corporate presentations, interviews, cultural performances etc.

Also, this skill of making videos helps me big time with my role of heading the Technology & Creative Communications domain at the NGO - Expressions India. It’s life-skills education program for the children and adolescents and we often need to make short-films about social awareness topics, promotional campaign videos etc.

Here I again feel that I can share my experiences and information pertaining to the domain of Independent Film Making.

In both these orientation workshops (Film Making and Music Composition), I intend the following to happen:

1. •I will be introducing the participants to the prevalent music-composition / film making procedures and practices followed in the industry.
   

2. •We will also walk through my own methods and tools that I use at my home studio.
   

3. •I will try and make you aware about the various resources from where you can learn - various schools where you can learn films/music, various Internet portals where you can look for help.
   

4. •We will discuss about a typical home-studio setup, the purpose of each gadget out there, where to buy these and also the fiances associated.
   

5. •Both these orientation workshops are essentially designed to be single 90 minutes capsule sessions where we discuss about these aspects and then you’ll be better aware as to where to look for and what to look for - before keeping your first step into this hi-tech creative world.
   

6. •We;ll do one session and then you embark your own journey ahead to explore further, learn new things and going further if you feel the need of another orientation session with me, I’ll be more than happy to design an advanced session for you :)