1-Week Movie Camp

1 COLLEGE CREDIT*

*Through the New York State Board of Regents' National PONSI Program, the New York Film Academy carries college credit recommendations to over 1500 colleges and universities.

Taught by instructors with tremendous hands-on experience and training from the nation’s elite film schools – NYU, USC, UCLA, and the AFI, one-week students will eat, drink and breathe movie making. The pace of this one-week course is feverish, and each student will complete a short exercise to be screened at the conclusion of the workshop. Students may take One-Week Movie Camp and One-Week Acting Camp in two consecutive weeks.

The program begins with two days of intensive study in camera, writing and directing. On Days Three and Four, students shoot their individual exercises. Day Five is comprised of editing class, and post-production.

In Movie Camp, each student will write, produce, direct, and digitally edit his or her own film on digital video and will rotate among crew positions when his or her classmates shoot.

Students enrolled in Movie Camp will use digital video cameras and Final Cut Pro digital editing systems. Classrooms are equipped with a television, VCR, DVD player and video camera for demonstration and screening of clips.

The One-Week Movie Camp was designed to serve the needs of different types of students. For students contemplating a longer term education in filmmaking or a career in the industry, it is an excellent introduction. This one-week course gives students an understanding of the requirements and rigors of filmmaking, as well as the exhilaration of seeing a completed project.

For others, the One-Week Movie Camp is an escape vacation – an opportunity to have fun doing something completely different. Some students are simply interested in learning about the way a movie is made.

In every category, we have had students return to the Academy for one of our longer, more involved programs. Many of our one-week students get “bitten by the film bug” during the program, and realize that one week will not fulfill their desire to learn all they can about the process of movie making.

All students enrolling in the One-Week Movie Camp should be aware that this is an introductory course. The limitations of a one-week course should be apparent, given that many people spend years studying film and perfecting their craft.