5 free online courses for creatives

Despite the tragedy, for many people, quarantine has become the right moment to focus on themselves and on their skills. Following the suggestions of the 5 free online fashion courses to follow while forced at home, nss magazine comes back with a few new tips. Here are the top 5 free online courses to improve your creativity.

UPDATE 04/10/2020 Following the worldwide success of such initiatives, New York MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) launched a series of free online art courses, each of whom goes deep into a different branch of contemporary art. In particular, the courses are: Fashion as design, Seeing through photography, In the studio: abstract post-war painting, Modern art and ideas, and What is contemporary art?

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The Business of Music Production Specialization – Berklee College of Music

Music business is beautiful, but it can also be cruel. That's why, for anyone who wants to be a part of it, it's important to know how it works. The Berklee College of Music gives you the opportunity to become a music professional, both from an artistic and an economical point of view. Following these classes, there will be no contract in the world that could trick you.

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Photography Basics and Beyond: From Smartphone to DSLR Specialization – Michigan State University

The Michigan State University is going to make all your dreams come true: not only because it will teach you the fundamentals of photography, whether you're using a Reflex or a smartphone; mostly because for those who will complete the classes there will be huge discounts to buy the equipment of a real photographer.

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Transmedia Storytelling: Narrative worlds, emerging technologies, and global audiences

Have you ever watched a film or read a book without fully understanding what was going on? That happens quite a lot. We're living in the age of multimedia: every day, we're surrounded by an impressive amount of fictional universes and stories that cross their original media and reach many platforms at the same time. Some examples? Harry Potter, Star Wars, the Marvel sagas. Thanks to this course, you'll finally understand what we mean with 'Transmedia Storytelling' - and most of all why it is the future of storytelling.

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Fundamentals of Digital Image and Video Processing

How many times in these days of quarantine did you wonder about immortalizing this moment with pictures or short home-made films? After all, we're living in a crucial moment for our history (the first shared experience in the globalized world). After these classes, you'll be able to use all the basic programs and software for image and video editing. And you'll be your own photographer, too. There's no escape: we want to see your documentaries.

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Social Media Marketing Specialization – Northwestern University

Once you'll be pros in image and video processing, you'll just have to let the world see them. Be careful, though: social media are the present - and especially the future of communication, there's no doubt about that, but it's not that easy to understand how they work. Thanks to this course, you'll be finally able to study your personal social media marketing strategy.

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