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User interface and User Experience Design are often placed together. They are definitely related and inter-dependent but they are not the same. At FLUX, we give you separate specific knowledge about each of these. Let us start it by explaining the difference between them. User Interface design is to do with the aesthetics of a website or an app. In fact it is a graphic job that asks the designer to deal with color, font styles, size and illustrations. It is their job to make the user’s experience aesthetically pleasing. User Experience design deals with the ease of navigating a website. A UX designer works on algorithms and programming to make the viewing and interacting with a website easy. Therefore, this designer also helps and guides the UI designer to aesthetically design the website or app. Read more…

In India, we are all interior designers but we don’t know it yet! Have you ever appreciated the beautiful tapestry your family home has? Have you ever seen your father or mother get excited about a new home artifact? Here in India, we really love our homes. We love where we live and we keep it very well designed within our means and creativity. But if you want to take this one step ahead, join us! If you want to hone your natural skills at home interior designing, we have something special for you here! We often over-complicate our lives by getting too much to handle or deal with. Smaller houses mean fewer things to manage and hence fewer responsibilities to fulfill. But a smaller house also means a smart design. It means a place where you can have everything you need but in a compact way. This is a very interesting space for a home designer! An interior designer can really make even a small house look like a paradise! You can also get folding or multipurpose furniture for the same! ...

Advertising is the most deadly weapon we have in business. This weapon can steer the hearts and minds of millions of people. This medium can spread like wildfire and captivate anyone. Therefore it has a lot of power and we must use it with a sense of responsibility. It is the medium of advertisement. Advertisement can happen in the following broad ways: ·          Writing ·          Video ·          Graphic To many people’s surprise, writing is the most important element in advertising. The way words can hook onto people, nothing else can! Therefore, in our course at FLUX, we also give you writing tasks and teach you how to write. We like to keep it short, crisp and impactful. But our advertising course syllabus also includes another very powerful medium of work. It is video! Videos too can be posted, reposted, shared and sent at one easy click! They can go up on Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, YouTube or even different websites. What a wonderful and shareable medium of wo...

The graphic design industry is currently booming. Everybody needs graphics because visual media has become the most trending activity online. Earlier people liked to read and imagine. Now people want to immediately watch and immediately process. So we at FLUX want to train you in making meaningful graphics that are easily processed. Bangalore is an IT hub. Here, people are constantly thinking in terms of software and computers. Graphic design is also taught by teaching through various different pieces of software. These can be InDesign, Photoshop, Flash, and even Lightroom. We help you learn each of these software pieces. Our short course in graphic design even awards you with a certificate at the end of the course! This way you can have some formal credibility you can use to get a job. You can even apply for further residencies or education to learn more by creating new work! There are many avenues that open up and there is so much that can be done! Keep reading…

Lighting design is the art of understanding how to create the right mood to tell the story most effectively. Let us break this down for you a bit more. Each story has a certain emotional graph. And each fluctuation in this graph can be accentuated by lighting design. Imagine a stage full of dancers talking about war. Would you light the stage purple? Perhaps not! You would need to use spotlight, back light and fill light to help create the correct mood for different scenes of the story. There are many stage lighting companies in India. But very rarely do they look at light as a storytelling aid. They think of it as a mere technical job. But it isn’t just that. It is an equally creative job. In fact it requires you to imagine and feel what the audience will feel. It also requires you to translate the intention of the story through lighting design. Keep reading…

Do you know that set designers have the most innovative job, which is the most tiring as well? Their designing work includes all the aspects of art creation. It includes everything right from researching, ideating, sketching, sourcing, dressing the set, and then wrapping up. We are offering one of our latest set design courses in Bangalore Indiranagar at FLUX that talks about all these aspects. Our set design courses first start with understanding a script. Only once you have thoroughly read and understood a script, you can create the set for it. The set essentially sets the mood for the entire film. It grounds the film in space and time. Each era and location and even socio-economic backgrounds are depicted largely by the set design. Therefore, each script requires a lot of research before the set designing ideas even start coming in. We will be paying a lot of attention to this sort of researching. Read more…

Sound design is what makes or breaks a film. It is what captivates the audience, enraptures them and hooks them in. This is probably the most elaborate and the most difficult task during post-production. Sound is the landscape and foundation of the entire film. Are you interested in sound designing? Do you enjoy listening? Are you a good listener? What does silence sound like? Ever wondered what constitutes silence? The best sound engineering colleges in India are all outside Bangalore. They are the ones that might encourage these questions in their sound design courses. To fill this vacancy and make education available we are getting ready an army of the best sound designers. And if we were to talk about animation, that is a completely different field! Animation requires actors to come in to studio and watch the video lock. The video lock is basically a final video render after all animation that has been done. Then the actors lip sync and speak the dialogues for the animated characte...

The world is full of land chunks and all such chunks need functioning as per their utility. This also means that it needs planning at an intelligent level, which means it needs design. This is where landscape design comes in. There is a huge requirement for space and landscape designers in today’s industry driven times. Today land is constantly being bought, sold and redone to fit changing requirements. Hence designers also need to think of doing these rapid conversions in an eco-friendly and a responsible way. But if we want to think of something smaller, sweeter and closer to home, we can think of designing gardens. Gardens too are a specialized field of landscape design. There are special landscape design courses dedicated to this art field. This may even require you to study a little bit of horticulture. It will enable you to gain knowledge about the different kinds of plants, flowers and soils. That way you can understand what can grow where and what you need to plan that growth. ...

India is a country full of much variety and flavor. Hence it would be a sin not to make documentaries over here. Okay, that might be a bit of an exaggeration! But you get our point. All of its streets, shops, people and their means of livelihood are highly varied. Hence it is very important that we document and show all of this variety in lifestyles. And the only way to do this is through documentary film making! That is why we at FLUX will soon offer new documentary film making courses. These are going to be unique documentary courses for the multi-cultural country that India is. However, the documentary industry at this point in India is not very established or organized. There aren’t any proper documentary filmmaking companies or equipment rental spaces. And by introducing documentary film making course as an option, we need to organize this sector a bit more. The idea of documentary filmmaking is full of excitement. It has a sense of freshness and community-hood in it. These all ar...

Everything can change on the edit table. This is a revelation that we came across as we sat and edited our first films. We didn’t need going to innovative film city to realize that. The editor has the power to completely change the film and its story line on the edit table. The process of recording footage can sometimes be very different from the process of watching the footage. This is where the editor comes in. The editor has the power to watch something and envision something else completely. If you are someone who is curious about exploring this power, we would love to have you join our video editing courses at FLUX. Our video editing training course uses software like Final Cut Pro X and Adobe Premiere Pro. These are both industry level standard tools to work with. We stay up to date to accessible and easy ways of editing. These are adept enough to create and produce good quality video and film work. But the choice of which video editing software you want to use completely relie...

Short films are a newer form of cinema in India and it will take a bit of time for us to nurture and develop this art skill in our country. It is also a very reachable and accessible form of cinema. You don’t even need places like innovative film city to shoot one like that. In fact it can be made using bare minimum of resources and through good collaborations. Most of us in India have access to smart phones and laptops now. Therefore we feel it would be nice to teach how to make short films with these available resources. In a cosmopolitan city like Bangalore there is no dearth of such untold stories. There are also many short film making course books that are available and our facilitators have their own very special recommendations in terms of watching and reading that can be used to gain insight and knowledge. Having said that, intellectual knowledge and practical knowledge are two very different things and we feel it is important you get the chance to learn through on-field applic...

Film direction is a very unique and a very plausible field in the world of art and design. Actually why should we limit it to the world of art? Everyone watches and adores films, right? When was the last time you watched a film or a TV series? I am sure for many of us the answer is ‘just a couple of hours ago’. We are a society that loves to watch the magic of cinema in the theatre. Lately laptops have partially replaced theatres through Netflix or Amazon Prime. That is why we at FLUX also think of film as a beautiful resource. In fact it can reach and touch human hearts more than any other medium. This is why we are soon starting a film direction course that is situated in the heart of Bangalore in Indiranagar. This film direction course will be a long-term course spread over numerous hours. This course will break down and explain everything a director needs to know about lighting, scripting, screen flow, rhythm, pacing, editing and even actor training. Keep reading…

Street photography has been a very historical way of capturing reality. It arose decades ago. Many a time people confuse street photography with documentary photography. There is a difference and we are happy to explain the difference as well. But we are also open if you want to overlap these two methods. We, at FLUX, like to teach practically. But we also like to have an informed theoretical knowledge about the history of art. Therefore, our courses also have certain theory sections. This time we are going to offer a very creative course in Street Photography in Bangalore Indiranagar at FLUX! Street photography is generally candid in its nature. Tony Ray-Jones was the first pioneer in this field. You must check him out! He developed a set of rules for himself, which basically asked him to let things emerge in his frame. This also included having real conversations with people on the street and spending time doing that. The process demands you to be patient with yourself and with the a...

Do you know what the most charming colors in a photograph colorscape are? They are black and white. These high contrast colors look stunning alongside each other. But do you know what melts the space in between them? It’s the grey. The greys play a major role in creating the game of light and shadow. Flux wants to introduce a course in black and white photography that immerses in this magical world. When photography just started the very first, it was all in black and white. That is when we did not have the technology to have color ink photographs. But even in today’s date and time, there is something very charming and beautiful about black and white photographs. Read further…

Well, in today’s commercial times, product is the king. And businesses are constantly selling different kinds of products. Due to globalization, there has been an explosion in the kinds of products that are available for us to use. This has led to a lot of competition. Advertisement is very important to sustain in the present day scenario. That is why product photography has become a real hot service in itself. In India, there are many product industries. Let us name a few: ·          Food ·          Textile ·          Furniture ·          Kitchen ·          Decorative ·          Home Lighting These are just a few but let’s discuss these a bit more in detail. This will help us understand what it actually takes to click a good product photograph. Read more…

A documentary photography course is very different from a controlled photo shoot environment. In this sort of a setup, one has to be open to the idea of ‘emergence’. Let us take you through a few of the insightful and technical ideas of documentary photography. In documentary photography, you cannot force a frame. One cannot make things happen. There is also a stream called observational documentary work. This basically asks you to observe reality and then when something arises or emerges, you can document it. It also asks you to allow reality to compose your frame. But one has to be patient enough to let things emerge. In fact that is what we mean by the idea of emergence. But when the frame becomes alive and emerges, one also has to be aware enough to click it. And when the frame is clicked, one shouldn’t look at it with critical eyes. Rather the beauty of documentary photography is that it is raw and real. It isn’t constructed. Therefore, to accept these small glitches as part of th...

Bangalore is a city full of events. It is not only a metropolitan but also a cosmopolitan city that caters to all kids of audiences. That is why there are a hundred different types of events that take place in Bangalore every day. And since there are so many events, each one of them also needs promoting and managing it properly. This promotion is done through social media. But to make social media posts work, we need content. This content is generally in the form of videos and photos. These photos don’t need a lot of editing, at least when clicked by a good event photographer. And these photos have a huge demand. And since there is a huge demand for these photos, there is also a huge demand for event photographers.   If you are someone who wants to cater to this demand, start learning it now. Since the level of competition is very high in this field, mediocrity just doesn’t work. For that, we at FLUX have organized many professional level courses in event photography for you. Kee...

India is a country full of dreams, desires and needs. We know that most of our population is under the poverty line as well. But what we are trying to get at is different Whatever the condition might be, mostly each and every person in India has a cell phone. And this cell phone can be used to make great and quality art! Generally photography is seen as a very expensive medium of work creation. This is because it requires funds for the following things: ·          Recce ·          Pre-production work ·          Camera Equipment ·          Crew hiring ·          Actor payments ·          Set design ·          Photo Editing ·          Distribution In fact, this has been the traditional method of working since long. But things are changing now. The independent industry has come up with ways to make art more accessible. We at FLUX also want to find more efficient and more resourceful ways of creating images. By shooting photographs on our phone, we can find cheaper ways of getting the b...

Nowadays, fashion is everywhere. It completely rules the world. Right from the blanket you wake up in, to the night clothes you wear, it exists everywhere! And we want to stay up to date with the changing fads and work with them! Of all the photography courses in our city, this one is the most speedily rising up in popularity presently Fashion photography is a very niche field in India and not many people know about it. That is why there aren’t many courses that are specialized for fashion photography yet. This is a newer field for India and so we mostly end up imitating already made ads. But to photograph someone, you also have to help them dress up for camera. What looks good on camera may not look good in real life, but that’s the art behind it! This is called fashion styling wherein you have to prepare what’s in frame to make the frame look good. In fact fashion styling and photography courses in this niche go hand in hand. Keep reading…

Anyone can click an image very easily these days. But is it okay for it just to remain an image the way it was clicked? You can click a photo very simply with your smartphone. But how to make that image tell a story or look aesthetically pleasing is a different ball game . A photo is a still an image. A video is a collection of images, which appear to be moving. A photo is intricately corrected with a lot of precision in color, sharpness, contrast and retouching. We do it with software tools like Photoshop or Lightroom. But a video is a whole different story. Software tools like Premiere Pro, Avid and Final cut pro help in smoothening out a video. You can adjust the color balance of all the shots together. You can even crop and adjust them. All these edits need to look seamless. This is what we will give you the specialization in. Read further…