Video Editing & Special Effects
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Video Editing & Special Effects 
Ages 11-17
Considering film school? How do you get started? Our summer film camps for teens and kids ages 10-15 will use award-winning and movie-making film production software, Apple Final Cut Studio® (with Final Cut Pro 7®). Additionally, students will also use Adobe® Photoshop®, the industry standard professional graphic software. Edit scenes using real footage from Freedom Park, an award- winning, independent feature film, and compare your “cut” to the pros.
Further enhance your movie by adding professional video clips from a large online video library. Mark and trim clips in a timeline, add music, sound effects and eye-popping special effects with Adobe® After Effects® as you complete your vision. You’ll not only take home a copy of Freedom Park, you’ll also receive a copy of your final project and showcase it on YouTube®. To focus on post production quality, cameras are not used as part of our curriculum. Welcome to internalDrive! Do Something Big this summer!
Featured Software
Students will learn filmmaking and film production using Apple Final Cut Studio and Adobe Photoshop. In addition to learning to mark and trim clips in a timeline, students may add music, filters, transitions, titles and credits and may even learn special effects with Adobe After Effects. This digital movie summer camp is taught by top level instructors – both film school students and professional filmmakers. Get ready to find out why making movies is even more fun than watching them! Learn more about other cutting edge products used at our summer camps.
Love Movies? Thinking of Film School? Want to Know How a Movie Comes Together?
Look no further! In this summer computer camp for students interested in film, you’ll tell your story through the visual medium of film. We’ll walk you through the crucial elements of film production. You’ll learn digital video and leave with your own video short at the end of the week. Welcome to Hollywood!
Gain More Skills and Save on Each Additional Week!
Save $50 off each additional week with these suggested multi-week packages. Either register for the SAME course over multiple weeks, gaining advanced skills, or register for distinct courses over multiple weeks for a broad perspective.
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FILMMAKING / PHOTOGRAPHY PACKAGE:
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DIGITAL ARTS PACKAGE: Tell your story!
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SAMPLER PACKAGE: Learn various skill sets
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Gaming Activities: Gaming Tournaments, Ultimate Gaming Weekends
General gameplay is a fun aspect of our summer camps, but does not infringe on instructional time. This season will feature Gaming Tournaments and Ultimate Gaming Weekends showcasing the industry’s best. We use NVIDIA® GeForce® gaming cards for peak gaming performance. Students will play BIG titles from Epic Games®, Activision®, Blizzard® Entertainment, THQ®, Microsoft® GameStudios™ and more. In order to offer the most cutting edge experience for our campers, we have adopted the policy of allowing the use of some select games with ESRB ratings of “E” for Everyone, “T” for Teen and “M” for Mature to be used as part of our curriculum in a supervised environment. We take our corporate responsibility and iD family values very seriously, but cannot guarantee that younger students will avoid complete contact with these games. Please know that we make every effort to minimize exposure to any games not appropriate for these age groups.
Note 1: Gaming does NOT infringe on instructional time.
Note 2: Games with ESRB Ratings of E, T and M are used at our camps.
Attention Teens!
Check out the Teen Scene at our teen camps. Looking for other fun ways to spend summer? You may also be interested in the iD Visual Arts Academy, an intensive two-week film school for teens. Check out our other courses at iD Tech Camps or do some hardcore gaming at our NVIDIA-hosted teen gaming tournaments.
Skill Level & Ages
Customized for beginner to advanced learners ages 10-15. Curriculum in our video editing camps is delivered in small student clusters and is individually tailored to each student. All students will go home with a completed project at the end of the week at this digital video camp.
What’s New?
New curriculum! Instead of shooting footage with a video camera, this season’s updated curriculum will focus heavily on editing and post-production, using Apple Final Cut Studio® (with Final Cut Pro 7®) and Adobe® Photoshop®. Each student will edit and produce their own project using professional video clips, as well as footage from award-winning independent film Freedom Park. Advanced students interested in creating impressive special effects will learn Adobe After Effects®.
How We Teach
Industry Leading Curriculum & Instruction
Average 6 Students per Staff for Personalized Learning
We maintain an average of just 6 students per instructor. The small ratios ensure personalized instruction and the highest caliber technology summer camp experience. Students at iD are taught only by hand-selected adult staff.
Adult-Only Staff – No Counselors-in-Training
Our entire staff is comprised of adults age 18 and over. iD Tech Camps has respectfully created a no Counselors-in-Training (CIT) policy at our summer technology camps. Students learn best from adults who have mastered their skills in technology. Instruction is delivered by graduate and undergraduate students majoring in the fields of Film, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Education, Media Arts, and other related fields.
Beginner to Advanced
Our ever-evolving curriculum is designed for beginning through advanced learners, allowing students to move along at their own pace with customized lessons for a fun and appropriate challenge. We use award-winning brand-name software.
Weeklong Courses
Students focus on one course topic per week. Our weeklong kids camps and teen camp courses provide students with a firm understanding of their course topic. Many students enroll in multiple weeks of summer camp by exploring many different course topics.
Our Recommendations
If you are interested in the technical components of editing, this movie camp is right for you. With our customizable curriculum, this summer film camp is perfect for beginning film students as well as advanced filmmakers. Don’t just watch movies, go behind the scenes.
Tuition & Hours
What’s Included?
Course Instruction, supervision, camp T-shirt, campus tours, hardware/software discounts, free iD 365 – Endless Summer online workshops, and optional sports, chess, gaming tournaments, and continuing education units (for 11th & 12th graders only). Campers also take home exciting raffle prizes, a personalized diploma of graduation and impressive new tech skills.
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| Day Camps Ages 7-17 |
Monday – Thursday: 9AM to 5PM Friday: |
Lunch can be purchased for an additional $50/week. | $729/week Save $50* off regular $779 price. |
New convenience! Parents can drop-off as early as 8:30AM and pick -up as late as 5:30PM (3:30PM on Friday) with this camp option. No additional fees. Yay! |
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| Extended Day Camps Ages 7-17 |
Monday – Thursday: 7:30AM to 7PM Friday: |
Includes all meals | $949/week Save $50* off regular $999 price. |
The perfect option for commuting parents who need extra time in the mornings and want the convenience of someone else preparing breakfast, lunch and dinner. |
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| Overnight Camps Ages 10-17 |
Sunday: 6PM to Friday: |
Includes all meals and 24/7 supervision. | $1,199/week Save $50* off regular $1,249 price. Stay the weekend: add $349 |
The complete collegiate experience! Students stay in real campus dorms (room with a buddy or make a new friend), eat in the university dining hall and participate in fun evening activities.** |
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| Ultimate Gaming Weekends Ages 12-17 |
Friday: 3:30PM to Sunday: |
Includes all meals and 24/7 supervision. | $349/weekend | Get your game on! Stay the weekend and game with us.*** |
*$50 savings applies to your 1st week of camp (per student).
**Overnight iD Tech Campers must be 10+. No exceptions, please.
***Students ages 12+ can stay the weekend at select locations for $349. Students at Stanford, ages 10+, can also stay the weekend.
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