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{California State Summer School for the Arts} Film
An individual, expressive use of the film medium is emphasized in the Film program. Each year, 28 students learn all aspects of creative film production, from experimental to pre-cinema history. They view over fifty exemplary films, and attend lectures and presentations by visiting artists working in the field. The program is very learning-intensive, and ideal for self-starters who want to challenge both themselves and the boundaries of filmmaking while developing their own critical thinking and artistic visions. The program is structured to resemble a collegiate BFA course that students typically experience at elite university and art school film programs.
Monday through Thursday, students move between classes in Narrative Filmmaking, Documentary Filmmaking, and Cinema Theory. On Fridays and Saturdays, students have production classses, learning various aspects of filmmaking from post-production sound design to art direction. There are also regularly scheduled evening screenings, including a Thursday night, outdoor, Works-in-Progress showcase, where students can screen for the CSSSA community the films that they created in class.
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{Emerson College} 16mm Filmmakers Studio
16mm Filmmakers Studio offers you an opportunity to explore concepts and practices in film production. Applicants selected for the five-week program train in the art and technique of 16mm film production.
{Emerson College} Digital Filmmakers Studio
Digital Filmmakers Studio offers you an opportunity to explore concepts and practices in film production. Applicants selected for the five-week program train in the art and technique of single-camera digital film production.
{Emerson College} TV Writing & Production
The session’s primary objective is to learn the process of developing and producing comedic television. The class will be structured around developing a pitch for a comedy television series, and ways to produce content during a unique time in American history. Class will focus on the creative development of a TV series, through the lens of the popular sitcom “Friends.” Lectures will focus on production elements, such as developing a pitch, writer’s rooms, lighting, sound, working with actors, production design, and editing, featuring industry professionals in each area. Additionally, each class will focus on how to produce content during our current era of “social distancing” due to the coronavirus pandemic, focusing on lighting, sound, editing, and other unique challenges facing content creators during this time. Students will develop a pitch for an original TV production and create content as assigned.
{Interlochen Center for the Arts} Filmmaking Summer Program
Nurture your creativity as a filmmaker through hands-on work! You’ll study with professional instructors and notable guest artists, who will share their experience and insights into filmmaking and the movie industry. They will help you develop the skills you need to express yourself through film and to collaborate with others to enhance the results, all while working in the world's finest facility for young filmmakers! As a Filmmaking student, you will learn to: Translate your creative ideas into visual writing and original screenplays, Evaluate notable masterwork films for key aspects of visual storytelling, Practice pre-production, visual organization with shotlist and storyboarding, Use camera placement, movement, and cinematic lens techniques to shoot your own short film, Understand key roles on a film set and how to perform them to better collaborate, Apply effective sound recording and microphone techniques, Explore a variety of editing techniques, colliding/sequencing of images, Enhance images with resourceful lighting and exposure techniques. Your daily instruction includes story/script development and hands-on collaborative production time on location. The program concludes with a public screening of student work.
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{Loyola Marymount University} Film Production: Social Impact Filmmaking
This summer, focus on stories that matter. Creating media that is socially responsible and highly effective, students in this four-week intensive introductory film program will gain insight into the process of collaborative content creation and an overview of media literacy. Elevate your knowledge of filmmaking from one of the best film schools in the nation. In week one, students will be placed into working groups, receiving in-class instruction as well as hands-on lab experience for a full overview of the filmmaking process. Topics include workshops in writing, casting, directing and editing. In weeks two and three, students will begin production on their final film with the final week focused on editing and post-production. The program will conclude with a screening of student work for friends and family. All students will leave with their own three-minute film and will assist as production crew on classmates' projects, giving all participants well-rounded insight into the production process. Students who successfully complete this program will receive college credit. Students must have completed junior year of high school by the start of summer 2020 to attend.
{New School} Summer Filmmaking Intensive
Make it a summer full of the big screen with the Filmmaking Intensive for grades 11 and 12. Film, Art, Change: Making Movies to Make a Difference: A socially engaged summer filmmaking intensive for high school juniors and seniors. Students learn traditional filmmaking and master high-definition digital techniques and tools while immersing themselves in the art of making critically engaged movies.
{New York Film Academy} Documentary Camp
Documentary has become the field where, as the New York Times recently put it, “all the cool kids are.” Documentary filmmakers have more opportunities than ever before, from independent docs, viral videos, and doc-style TV series, to VICE on HBO and other documentary programming on cable TV networks. During the three weeks, students learn the basic tools of documentary filmmaking. They take classes in Producing and Directing, Camera and Lighting, Production Sound, and Editing, then apply what they learned by creating a two-minute individual observational film, a three-minute interview project, and a short group project under the guidance of their instructors. Following the production and post-production of each project, students screen their work with their classmates and instructors and engage in positive critiques and discussion.
{New York Film Academy} Filmmaking Camps
Whether you see yourself pursuing a career in filmmaking or want to learn these practical and applicable skills for yourself, New York Film Academy’s film camps are perfect for everyone with an interest in making films. In all New York Film Academy (NYFA) summer film camps for teens, each student writes, shoots, directs and edits his or her own films. Our film camps are designed for people with little or no experience in making films. The programs focus on the fundamental elements of visual storytelling that enable the students to direct their own projects.
{New York University} Online High School Filmmakers Workshop
Aspiring young filmmakers anywhere in the world can learn digital filmmaking and experience the best of The Kanbar Institute of Film and Television degree program with the online filmmaking course. High school students can develop writing, directing, shooting, and editing skills and produce a variety of short films through self-paced learning and collaborative projects. The online filmmakers workshop for college credit is offered every summer and fall.
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{New York University} Online High School Screenwriters Workshop
Learn to write for film and television with an online course in screenwriting. Collaborate with high school students from around the world and transform your ideas into a short screenplay. Complete pre-recorded course modules and assignments and schedule live, one-on-one video meetings with the Tisch instructor. The online screenwriting workshop for high school students is for college credit and is offered every summer and fall.
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{New York University} Summer High School Filmmakers Workshop
Learn about documentary, experimental, and narrative approaches to film. Through hands-on instruction using Tisch’s professional digital camera and sound equipment, you can see your ideas come alive on screen.
{Northwestern University} National High School Institute: Film & Video Division
“Collaboration” and “Story” are the pillars that guide our curriculum, with an emphasis on film-“making”. Our core labs provide a discipline specific foundation of elements that include: acting on camera, production and screenwriting.
{Sarah Lawrence College} Filmmakers Collective
As part of a long-running partnership, Sarah Lawrence College and the International Film Institute of New York (IFI) offer a unique opportunity to learn the art of filmmaking in an in-depth, supportive, and intimate program. The focus of this five-week Intensive is on storytelling and developing the skill sets necessary to translate the written page onto the screen. This is the backbone of the program, in which every student produces and directs their own four- to six-minute finished project. Along the way, technical aspects necessary to produce a final film—everything from operating cameras, to setting up lights, to capturing sound will be covered. Enjoy small sized classrooms with instructors that will give you the attention needed to excel.
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{Summer Springboard} Filmmaking Course
This course focuses on the fundamental elements of visual storytelling that enables students to direct their own projects. Whether you have little experience, or are a Steven Spielberg in the making, gain experience in the entertainment capital of the world. Over the course of this two week program, students spend 3 hours each morning doing in-class instruction, and the afternoons doing on-set production, so as to convert theory from the morning into practice and real experience. On the last day, students will get the opportunity to present their short film (5-15 minutes). Excursions at UCLA – may include a visit to Warner Brothers studio or another film studio, production facility or a motion picture business in LA.
{University of California, Los Angeles} Digital Filmmaking Summer Institute
The UCLA Film & Television Digital Filmmaking Summer Institute gives high school students from across the country and around the globe an unparalleled opportunity to study filmmaking at one of the most prestigious film schools in the world. The Digital Filmmaking program is designed for talented and highly motivated rising juniors and seniors. This program is a two-week, intensive production workshop. Students are immersed in the creativity and technique of cinematic storytelling and challenged to create entertaining narrative projects.
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{University of Houston} Moving Pictures
Moving Pictures can’t promise you a Hollywood ending, but it can help get you ready for your close-ups, tracking shots, story conferences, sound mixes, and final wraps. You’ll acquire an understanding of lighting, cinematography, production design, continuity, dramatic structure, location scouting, editing and a host of other concepts and skills essential to filmmaking. In addition to classroom instruction adapted from the UH introductory film curriculum, you’ll collaborate with other students in scripting, acting, filming and editing short narrative “features,” using video and digital technology. You’ll also become a more knowledgeable moviegoer—each day concludes with the screening of a narrative or documentary film of special interest, introduced and discussed by members of the UH and Rice faculties or curators from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. All student productions are shown “out of competition” for an audience of parents and friends on the final afternoon of the workshop.
{Wake Forest University} Summer Immersion: Film Institute
Do you have an interest in video production or filmmaking? Do you love shooting photos on your phone or telling stories to your friends? If so, then the Documentary Film Institute is for you. The Documentary Film Institute is a week-long program designed for high school students to gain an understanding of documentary storytelling as well as some of the fundamentals of video production. Students will learn about various documentary forms, visit local museums and businesses to see how professional non-fiction storytelling is utilized, and create a short film to take with them at the end of the week.
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