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Course Instruction in this Teen Summer Filmmaking Camp

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Teen Film Camp Instruction

Instruction at our teen filmmaking summer campLearn from professional filmmakers! The iD Film Academy offers students of all experience levels the chance to produce their own personal documentaries. Academy students use professional-grade editing and production tools including Apple® Final Cut Studio® 2 (with Final Cut Pro®), Adobe® After Effects® CS4 and Final Draft® AV. Final Cut Studio 2 turns a Mac into a professional, Hollywood-caliber film and video editing system. Film camp students graduate with a take-home DVD portfolio. iD faculty deliver one-on-one instruction, encouraging and challenging students to complete a high-quality film.

Learning in small groups, students work at their own pace. New to digital video editing and filmmaking? You’ll be brought up to speed with the basics of production and editing. Students with previous experience in film production or movie editing discover the complexities of sound design and special effects editing using Adobe® After Effects® CS4. Other software the students will use include: Sonicfire® Pro, Digieffects™ and Red Giant Software™ plug-ins: Primatte Keyer™ Pro, Magic Bullet™ Looks and Trapcode Particular.

All students participating in our teen movie camps will have a memorable experience making friends and documenting their two weeks at our programs in the San Francisco Bay Area and Montreal, Canada.

General Curriculum Overview

Week One:

  • Introduction to film aesthetics, learning the visual language
  • Principles of camera operation
  • Learning the fundamentals of the documentary genre
  • Production of two short group projects
  • On-location filming
  • Choosing and interviewing subjects
  • How to write an effective treatment
  • Fundamentals of sound recording
  • Animation workshop (optional)
  • Class screenings
  • Week Two:

  • Principles of digital editing and continuity
  • On-location filming
  • Using color correction and filters in post production
  • Creating titles
  • Creating a composition of sounds (voiceovers, music, ambient sound, and interviews)
  • Putting together one film festival packet
  • Uploading video to the web
  • Music workshop using SmartSound® Sonicfire® Pro (optional)
  • DVD authoring
  • Final screening
  • Advanced Students May Also Learn:

  • Time remapping and motion
  • Creating a nested sequence – learning short cuts
  • Adding mattes
  • Editing a one minute piece syncing sound effects
  • After Effects interface
  • Exporting into various film formats
  • Uploading video to the web
  • Split screen/multiple screens
  • Creating inventive title sequences
  • Advanced sound design

  • Sample Projects

    We encourage high quality, engaging films to emerge from this teen film camp, hoping our graduates will take their films to the festival circuit. Take a peek at some documentaries created by students at the iD Film Academy in the international filmmaking circuit. These two projects are from the Spain filmmaking program from 2008. Enjoy! Roll tape!

    Disclaimer: Please note that these are personal documentaries of the students’ experiences. The opinions contained within do not necessarily reflect the opinions of iD Tech Camps, internalDrive, Inc. All music used is from the personal collections of each student. These movies are not for sale, distribution, or commercial purposes.

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    internalDrive, Inc. operates its flagship iD Tech Camps for kids and teens along with the iD Gaming Academy, iD Film Academy and iD Programming Academy. Day camps, overnight Camps, kids camps, children's summer camps and teen summer camps are held at over 60 prestigious universities in the USA and Canada. Make your own game at our game design camps. Learn programming in C++ or Java at our programming camps and robotics camps. Get creative at our web design camps and digital arts camps. Film and edit at our movie camps.