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Programs Offered

Audio Engineering and Music Production

Film and Digital Arts

Film and Music Business

Game Design and 3D Animation

Audio Engineering and Music Production

Diploma

This is a comprehensive one-year program that includes the subjects taught in audio engineering schools, recording schools and music production schools. Our intensive hands-on and theory training in music recording, audio engineering, live sound, sound engineering, and digital audio work stations is taught in the classroom and in our state-of-the-art recording studios.

New music, beats, breaks, grooves, loops, sampling, and electronic music are all explored. Record production, Pro Tools , Reason, Logic and other audio engineering software, audio for video, live sound reinforcement, songwriting, recording studio design and an audio engineering practicum are among the many opportunities offered.

Audio Engineering & Production is a one-year, three-semester program consisting of 920 hours of hands-on and classroom instruction. The program includes 12 courses, with four courses taught per semester. Students may take advantage of 2250 hours of computer lab time, and over 900 hours of reserved studio time over and above their class hours. Students also have the option of applying for an internship at Blue Wave Studios.

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Film and Digital Arts

Diploma

This is a comprehensive film making curriculum that has made PAVI a leading Vancouver film school choice. Topics covered include film production, film making, digital film editing, screenwriting for film and TV, film directing, video production, film producing, film videography, film financing, cinematography, contracts & union law, film set and TV set skills, new media, film history, and more. The depth of course material and range of topics make our film school an ideal choice for film industry education.

Digital effects and editing, DV Cam, music videos, documentaries, film industry jobs, electronic news gathering, film lighting techniques, film audio post production, the film unions including Writers Guild of Canada, Directors Guild of Canada, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Directors Guild of America, Teamsters and many other subjects are covered.

Film & Digital Arts is a one-year, three-semester program consisting of 920 hours of hands-on and classroom instruction. The program includes 12 courses, with four courses taught per semester. Students may take advantage of 2250 hours of computer lab time over and above their classroom hours. We also offer an optional Internship Placement Program. Students accepted into the Internship Program gain practical experience in the industry.

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Film and Music Business

Diploma

This program examines the film and music industry from a promotional, legal and financial viewpoint. In the film portion we discuss basic film making, film industry jobs, film promotion, film industry contracts, film financing, film history, film tradeshows and film festivals, film administration, film production, film production accounting etc. The music industry section studies record production, concert promotion, entertainment business skills, music industry contracts, artist development, artist management, music festivals, an introduction to the modern recording studio, music promotion and marketing and many other topics.

The Film & Music Business program also covers publishing and copyright, running an independent label, music industry and film industry business contracts, the history of the music industry and film industry, road managing, film making budgets, record production budgets, National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM), the Audio Engineering Society, the International Music Market (MIDEM), Cannes Film Festival, Berlin and Venice Film Festivals, Sundance Film Festival, Toronto and Vancouver Film Festivals and much more.

Film & Music Business is a one-year, three-semester program consisting of 920 hours of hands-on and classroom instruction. The program includes 12 courses, with four courses taught per semester. Students may take advantage of 2250 hours of computer lab time over and above their classroom hours. We also offer an optional Internship Placement Program. This gives students the opportunity to gain practical experience in the industry.

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Game Design and 3D Animation

Diploma

The Game Industry is booming. In 2006, more than 225 million computer and video games were sold with sales of over $7 billion. It currently employs over 250,000 with increased demand for skilled personnel. The technologies used by the Game Industry are changing faster with each successive hardware generation. PAVI’s Game Design & 3D Animation provides the experience, software and production skills the Game Industry requires.

Vancouver is a 'hotbed' of game design and production. Home to internationally renowned developers like Electronic Arts, Disney, Radical Entertainment and Relic Software, B.C. has nearly 700 gaming companies with combined annual revenues in excess of $1 billion. The PAVI 'Game Design & 3D Animation' curriculum delivers an overview of the entire process for making a computer or video game. Students work both individually and in teams, learning the technical and creative skills and the project management and planning required to produce a modern computer game from start to finish.

Game Design & 3D Animation is a one-year, three-semester program consisting of 920 hours of hands-on and classroom instruction. The program includes 12 courses, with four courses taught per semester. Each student works on an individual state-of-the-art classroom computer terminal loaded with all necessary software. PAVI also offers an optional Internship Placement Program. Students accepted into this program gain practical experience in the industry.

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