Digital Filmmaking - Advanced Arts Camp/Workshop

Award winning filmmakers inspire the voices of the next generation of storytellers.

Session1	June 27 - July 9, 2010
Session2	July 25 - Aug 6, 2010
Ages	16 - 20
Tuition	$3150
Audition	No Audition Required

Tuition includes room and meals
Grade entering in Fall 2010

Camp/Workshop Details

Program Directors: Michael Wohl, Myrl Schreibman

The international reputation for quality education in filmmaking is offered to the more experienced digital filmmaking camper through the Advanced Digital Filmmaking Camp. The professional faculty is nationally and internationally known with extensive experience as award winning filmmakers specific in the digital filmmaking medium. Campers must know basic techniques of production, camera operation, and non-linear digital editing. Operating along professional guidelines campers are given in class instruction in areas such as direction of actors, digital cinematography and special effects. They are introduced to the way the camera can enhance a narrative story in association with performances and develop further their editing skills to augment their story telling abilities. Using some of the facilities of the UCLA Department of Film Television and Digital Media, and state of the art digital equipment, campers will have a direct hands-on experience and guidance from early morning to the evening hours in synch sound narrative.

Students must know basic techniques of production, camera operation, and non-linear digital editing.

Our Advanced Digital Film Camps for the summer of 2009 is now a two week camp experience. This has come because of the many requests that came from those of you who were in that camp last year and asked to have more intensive training in such areas as digital cinematography, camera direction, story telling, and editing. So we have met that request and have re-visited the curriculum into a two week program. The camp uses state of the art digital filmmaking equipment and is supported by Apple with the schools Final Cut Pro editing lab. Campers will have the experience of editing all night on their projects if they wish as Apple will be providing additional editing suites which will be placed at the dorms for the campers to use. We believe in total emersion in creativity and nurture our campers to be creative while they are at the camp. The program is headed up by Michael Wohl and Myrl Schreibman two professionals who bring the quality and expertise for which the UCLA School of Theater Film and Television is internationally known. Other faculty (based upon their availability) will be coming in from time to time to lend their expertise to the campers including Tom Denove who is the leading cinematographer in Los Angeles in digital cinematography since that is an area that many of the campers had asked about last year. So if you are planning any one of the two sessions of this camp, make sure you come with stories you want to tell and images you would like to see.

Both the Digital Film and the Advanced Digital Film Workshops use the same state of the art equipment that is used by our own film students. Our Canon, Sony, and Panasonic cameras record in mini dv. And the editing facilities use the same Final Cut Pro systems that are used in the motion picture and television industry. Workshops are held in the schools' soundstages, screening rooms, edit rooms, foley and mix stages as the workshop meets in the building that houses the internationally recognized UCLA Film and Television Department. However, the workshops focus on story telling regardless of the tools available so all the bells and whistles that equipment may have does not make a good movie.

* Additional Camp/Workshop Information

Students check-in between 1 - 2:30pm on the first day of camp.
Flights should arrive into Los Angeles International(LAX) on the First Day of camp between 10am and 12pm.
Flights should depart from Los Angeles International(LAX) on the DAY AFTER camp ends between 9am and 12pm.
Transportation is available to and from Los Angeles International(LAX) for $30 each way + Additional $125 for overnight stay.

College Credit Information

This summer, earn UCLA college credit!

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Directors and Faculty

Michael Wohl

Program Head

Michael Wohl is an accomplished director, winning the coveted CINE Golden Eagle award for his 1993 fictional documentary Theatereality, which received numerous national and international Festival awards. Michael is co-founder and artistic director of Bare Witness Productions, a collaboration of actors, filmmakers and writers utilizing new technologies and improvisational techniques to create short dramatic films distributed over the internet. Michael has directed POST! Music Television for MTV Style, as well as many live music events and several music videos. His documentary work includes Swing Dancing in the 90's and Artful Dodgers as well as a wealth of corporate communications spots for clients such as Chevron and Apple Computer. As a screenwriter, Michael co-authored Theatereality, and has completed 5 full-length feature screenplays. A true renaissance man, Michael has worked as Software Designer and Technical Consultant for various film and video editing software products such as Adobe, and was one of the principal designers for Apple's Final Cut Pro. Michael has taught Film Production and Editing at San Francisco State University and the American Film Institute and is considered one of the world's leading experts on digital video. He has traveled all over the globe lecturing on digital filmmaking, the digital future, and the impact of new technologies on filmmaking. In 2001, he published Editing Techniques with Final Cut Pro, the definitive editing style manual and required reading at more than 28 university film programs.

Myrl Schreibman

Adjunct Professor
Program Head

Award winning Myrl Schreibman is an Adjunct Professor in the UCLA Department of Film, Television and Digital Media and a producer and director for over 35 years of stage, television and motion pictures. Recognized by the New York Theater Wing Tony Awards, he has directed or produced for Universal Studios, Columbia Studios and Paramount Pictures, and has countless independent television and feature projects to his credit, as well as Broadway productions of On The Waterfront and The Ice Show and numerous award winning theater productions in Los Angeles. He has worked with a who's who of the industry counting among his colleagues and friends the likes of Gil Cates (Producer of the Oscars), and Alexander Payne (director of Sideways). He is the author of the highly successful The Indie Producers Handbook, Creative Producing from A- Z, the leading book in the country on producing and used by film schools throughout the world, and the soon to be released Directing for Motion Pictures. Although his duties as the Producing-Director of the UCLA Arts Camp and a professor in the School of Theater Film and Television keeps him quite busy he always finds the time to produce, direct, and most of all teach and mentor young filmmakers. He is the author of The Film Director Prepares, a Practical Guide for Directing Film and Television.

Location Information

UCLA is one of America's most prestigious universities, and their theater department is rated number one in North America. Bordered on the north by protected wilderness and on the south by Westwood Village, UCLA has long been known as an entertainment magnet for the entire Los Angeles area. Selected for their artistic and professional achievements, UCLA 's exceptional faculty from the School of Theater, Film and Television lead these inspiring workshops.

The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT) is the only university in the country where the study of theater, film, television and digital media is integrated within a single professional school.

The Department of Film, Television and Digital Media offers a wide range of courses for undergraduates in the study of three areas of moving images: Critical Studies, including the history, theory and aesthetics of both film and television; Production/Directing, including film, television (studio and field), digital, experimental and animation; and the film and television disciplines, including writing, producing, cinematography, sound recording and editing.

At the graduate level, there are five areas of concentration: Critical Studies, which offers film and television history and theory; aesthetics and popular culture, films from diverse genres and extensive national cinemas; Production/Directing, which trains students in all aspects of directing narrative fiction, documentaries and/or experimental film, emphasizing the aesthetic components; Screenwriting, in which the elements of character, dialogue, story and tone are explored; Animation, in which students are trained to create an individual style and voice; and the Producers Program, in which students learn the business and art of making films and television programs.

At UCLA's Department of Theater, we believe that great theater programs must prepare and train students for careers in all contemporary and emerging entertainment forms -- including live theater, film, television, video, themed entertainment, interactive gaming, and more. Our students live in a world that is interactive, collaborative, and fueled by their passion for our art form -- one that encompasses the many forms of professional practice as well as the theoretical exploration of current and emerging entertainment forms.

Igniting our students' talent and passion to achieve success is our goal. That is why students work with a distinguished faculty composed of professional and creative artists who have excelled in their fields. UCLA Theater has some of the most distinguished faculty and visiting artists in the world, among them Mel Shapiro, Annette Bening, Anthony Hopkins, Larry Moss, Neil Jampolis, Deborah Scott and Jerry Katzman. With this professional training, students are following in the footsteps of such illustrious alumni as Francis Ford Coppola, Tim Robbins, James Dean, Carol Burnett, Susan Egan, Jack Black, Ben Stiller and many others.

TFT's extraordinary undergraduate and graduate students are drawn from an admissions pool of the finest students from around the world, and enjoy participation in small classes with faculty members who themselves are accomplished artists and industry leaders.

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