6 WEEK FILM & DIGITAL	6 WEEK ADVANCED HI-DEF	4 WEEK FILM	4 WEEK DIGITAL
3 WEEK FILM	3 WEEK DIGITAL	1 WEEK DIGITAL	WEEKEND FILM

4-Week Digital Filmmaking Camp

The New York Film Academy offers special summer hands-on intensive Four-Week Digital Film Camps at all of our campuses in the United States and abroad. Each student directs three projects of increasing complexity, on DV format using digital cameras and editing on Apple Final Cut Pro stations.

Digital Directing

Students are taught the language of filmmaking and the director’s craft as applied to the digital format. Aspects of mise-en-scene, visual storytelling, continuity-style coverage, directing actors and writing visually will be essential to the director’s palette.

Hands-On Digital Camera and Lighting

Classes will help students master the digital medium including white balance, shutter speed, focus, video latitude, gels, and filters.

Sound Recording

Students learn to get quality sound for their projects with boom-operated microphones and accessories.

FILM 1: Continuity Style Directing

Students will explore film grammar while using the DV camera. Students are taught to plan and shoot "coverage" of a dramatic or documentary subject. Students will be taught how different camera angles, camera movements, focal lengths, lighting and blocking actors combine to bring the scene together seamlessly in the editing room.

FILM 2: The Digital Factor

Students will explore the unique properties of the digital format. Students will plan their projects meticulously, and then improvise and utilize the best aspects of the digital medium. The light weight of the camera makes for great ease of hand-held camera movements. Low light level shooting is possible in such a way that the camera can record very sharp images in a wide variety of environments. Students will take their digital cameras in to places where film cameras and film crews would not have easy access. Experimentation in the editing room will be encouraged as students explore the advanced functionality of Final Cut Pro.

FILM 3: Final Digital Project

The Final Digital Project may be in documentary, fiction or experimental form and up to six minutes. The portability and flexibility of digital video make it an excellent format for documentary filmmaking, while the unimposing size of the camera and the ability to shoot in low light levels with small crews allow for a new intimacy working with actors in dramatic projects. Students interested in experimental projects and/or music videos will find limitless creative possibilities in digital formats.

Students will edit their final digital projects during the fourth week of the program which will culminate in a final screening open to actors, friends and family.

Please note: curriculum, dates, prices subject to change.