Each student writes, directs, shoots and edits his or her short 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 three 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 the art of the shot; the second on continuity. These projects culminate in a third 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 four-week camp program you will write, shoot, direct, and edit the following three projects and work on the crew of six more films of your classmates.

FILM 1: THE SHOT

In the first film, students are introduced to the art of visual storytelling. Students will create a dramatic moment, and design a shot that they believe best expresses the dynamics of the scene.

FILM 2: 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 3: MUSIC & IMAGE

The third 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.