Kids Film Camp (AGES 10-13)

INTRODUCTORY FILMMAKING
Filmmaking Camp challenges young people to tell a story with moving images. Students begin on day one working with digital cameras and learning the fundamentals of directing films. Hands-on classes in directing, writing, editing, cinematography, and production cover the creative and technical demands of telling a story with moving images.

In the two-week program, each student writes, directs and edits his or her own short film of up to three minutes and fulfills basic crew positions on his or her classmates’ films.

Students shoot on digital video cameras and learn how to compose, direct, and light for quality images and edit using Final-Cut Pro on an Apple editing stations. At the Universal Studios location, students may shoot their productions on the studio back lot.

Students make one short film in each week. Two week students write and direct a film of greater complexity in the second week.

At the end of the Two Week and Weekend Workshops, the final films are celebrated in a screening open to cast, crew, friends and family.

INTERMEDIATE FILMMAKING
Designed expressly for graduates of the Academy’s Tween Filmmaking program, this intermediate course offers students the opportunity to take the next creative and technical step in filmmaking.

Students develop, pre-produce and create a longer and more complex project than that completed in the beginner program. Closer attention is paid to set and costume design, locations, shot choices and coverage, as well as additional crew roles.

The finished product is a film of up to 5 minutes. Classes focus on topics including digital cinematography, screenwriting, editing practice and aesthetics, and directing for cinema.