1-WEEK ONLINE FILMMAKING CAMP FOR TEENS – INDIA STANDARD TIME ZONE
INDIA STANDARD TIME ZONE (IST)
LEARN TO MAKE A SHORT FILM ONLINE
In our 1-Week Online Filmmaking Camp for teens, students aged 14-17 learn how to make films. This workshop is held from 4:30pm to 9:00pm (IST/ India Standard Time) with one half hour break. During this camp, students write, direct, shoot, and edit their own short film. Additional work, including exercises and homework, is completed during the weekday evenings. This may include the execution of the shooting plan and post-production.
No experience is required to attend.
Program Description
Camp Name: 1-Week Filmmaking Camp for Teens (IST)
Class Descriptions
Director’s Craft – Students are taught the language of cinema and how a director effectively communicates a story to their audience. Focused on aspects of visual storytelling and continuity-style scene coverage, this class also teaches the proper way a director prepares in advance of physical production. Included in the Director’s Craft class is the Pre-production meeting, a time for the students to pitch their story and go over their production plan.
Screenwriting – This class teaches basic screenwriting structure, and works to build a fundamental understanding of story. Students work to formulate their film ideas in this class.
Cinematography – These classes introduce the students to the fundamentals of cinematography and camera operation as applied to shooting with a mobile device. This class will also explain the manual camera settings available via the Adobe Rush mobile application.
Editing – Students learn how to import their digital footage into the Adobe Rush editing platform. Creating a timeline, inserting and splicing footage, special digital effects like transitions and project exporting are the main skills taught.
Screen & Critique – This class is designed to help the students dissect their and their classmates film exercises while identifying what directorial choices were effective and why.
To learn more about NYFA’s teen camps, visit the NYFA Camp Brochure.
This camp is delivered online, and students join from their homes. To attend, students should have a reliable internet connection and a quiet place to work on their films.
