3-Week
Digital Filmmaking Camp    Tuition: $4,100

3 COLLEGE CREDITS*

*Through the New York State Board of Regents' National PONSI Program, the New York Film Academy carries college credit recommendations to over 1500 colleges and universities.

In most locations, the New York Film Academy offers a second summer session of three weeks for digital video camps. The three week camp is film school distilled to its essence. You will experience each aspect of the filmmaking process from creating the story to screening your finished film for an audience.

Format
The Three-Week Film is structured around the production of two short films of increasing complexity.

Students attend class either in the morning or afternoon Monday through Friday, and shoot their films with supervision during the other half of each day. Weekends are reserved for writing, relaxation, and organized trips and activities.

Each student writes, directs, shoots and edits his or her own films using Arriflex S 16mm cameras (in the Film Camps) or HD digital video cameras (in the Digital Camps), and Final Cut Pro digital editing systems. Hands-on classes in directing, writing, editing, cinematography, and production cover all the creative and technical demands of telling a story with moving images. Students’ films are screened and critiqued throughout the programs as they are completed.

Crews & Projects
Students work in four person crews to complete each film. Every student directs two films. When their colleagues direct, students rotate among the key crew positions.

Every week is devoted to writing, producing, directing, and editing a different film project. The first film focuses on continuity and the second film of up to four minutes with a music track.

At the end of the course, the final films are celebrated in a screening open to cast, crew, friends and family. All students who successfully complete the workshop will receive a New York Film Academy Diploma.

FILM 1: The Cut
Continuity is one of the fundamental principles of modern filmmaking. Students are challenged to make a film that maintains continuity in story, time, and space. Utilizing a variety of shots (10-15) in a continuous sequence, the action in these films should unfold seamlessly with no disorienting jumps in time or space.

FILM 2: The Digital Factor
Students will explore the unique properties of the digital format. Students will plan their projects meticulously, and then improvise and utilize the best aspects of the digital medium. The light weight of the camera makes for great ease of hand-held camera movements. Low light level shooting is possible in such a way that the camera can record very sharp images in a wide variety of environments. Students will take their digital cameras in to places where film cameras and film crews would not have easy access. Experimentation in the editing room will be encouraged as students explore the advanced functionality of Final Cut Pro.

Please note: curriculum, camera format, dates, prices subject to change.