Each student writes, directs, shoots and edits his or her own films using Arriflex S 16mm cameras, Lowel lighting packages, 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. Each week all the students' films are screened and critiqued in class with the instructor.

CREWS & PROJECTS

Students in our film school 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 (director of photography, assistant camera, and gaffer/grip).

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 camp program will receive a New York Film Academy Diploma and the 16mm originals of their films.

WHAT YOU WILL ACHIEVE

In the three-week camp program you will write, shoot, direct, and edit the following two projects and work on the crew of four more films of your classmates.

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: MUSIC & IMAGE

The second film introduces students to the relationship between sound and film, as well as to narrative tools like montage and jump cuts. Each student begins with a short continuous selection of music. In the editing room, they cut their images to work in concert with, or in counterpoint to, the sound.