AGES 14 - 17
Pre-College Enrichment Through Filmmaking
The New York Film Academy is pleased to announce the opening of our new location in England at Saint Edward's, an elite boarding school in London - UK, that includes Sir Lawrence Olivier as an alumnus. We are excited to offer our teen summer camp programs at Saint Edward's, including Four and Six-Week Filmmaking, Four-Week Digital Filmmaking, and One-Week AMC Movie Teen Summer Camp.
Staff
The primary concerns of our staff are the safety and well-being of our students. In all our locales, our eclectic faculty is comprised of experienced instructors and professional filmmakers who have Master of Fine Arts degrees from the most prestigious film schools in the United States. These include New York University, Columbia University, the University of Southern California, and UCLA.
Supervision
All New York Film Academy teen summer camps are supervised programs. High school students will be overseen by energetic, responsible, co-ed administrative, teaching, and counseling staff. Counselors live in the high school housing with the students. Many of the counselors are trained filmmakers themselves, and will act as teaching assistants supervising the students' film productions.
Curriculum
From the very first day of class, the focus of the filmmaking Camp Programs is to learn through making films. Each student writes, produces, directs, and digitally edits his or her own films, and rotates among crew positions when his or her classmates shoot.
In the Four-Week Filmmaking teen summer camp, each student will make three film projects of increasing difficulty, culminating in a film of up to four minutes. Six-Week Filmmaking summer camp students will make four films of increasing difficulty. The final film will be up to six minutes. In the Four-Week Digital Filmmaking summer camp students will make three projects of increasing difficulty including a short documentary.
Daily Schedule
All programs have full-time daily schedules every week. The filmmaking program will be comprised of hands-on exercises in shooting and lighting, film screenings, lectures, and special activities. In addition, students shoot and edit approximately a film per person each week.
Extracurricular Activities
London - UK is one of the world's great college towns, with its rivers and bridges, incredible architecture, bookstores, cafés, cinemas, theater productions, and musical concerts. Although the Camp Program's daily schedule is demanding, students will take part in tours and excursions in the London - UK area.
Equipment
Student in the Filmmaking Camp Programs shoot 16mm film with Arriflex-S cameras and portable lighting packages for every shoot. Students in the Digital Filmmaking Camp Programs shoot with digital cameras on DV tape. In both programs students edit digitally using Final Cut Pro on Apple computers. The equipment our Film Academy students use is comparable to that of the leading degree programs in the United States.
Enrollment
The New York Film Academy has an open enrollment. Serious students from all backgrounds are welcome to apply. No previous experience is required. However, all New York Film Academy summer camp programs are extremely intensive. Students who enroll should be prepared to live and breathe their work during these Camp Programs. Given the nature of filmmaking and the necessity of working in crews, students must be willing to devote themselves not only to their own projects, but to their classmates' projects as well.
Housing
HIgh school students will have the option of living in our supervised housing. All housing requests should be made to the New York Film Academy at: London - UKhousing@nyfa.edu. Please do not contact the administrative offices of Saint Edward's School, London - UKas this will create confusion.
Final Screening/Portfolios
At the conclusion of all filmmaking Camp Programs, a screening of the students' final films is held. This provides a unique opportunity for family, friends, and cast to see the work students have produced. Students retain the 16mm originals and a copy of their work to include in their portfolios. Each student, upon successful completion of the program, receives a diploma.
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