UCLA - Digital Filmmaking

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

Week 1:	June 21 - June 26, 2009
Week 2:	July 12 - July 17, 2009
Week 3:	July 19 - July 24, 2009
Grades:	9 - 12 (Entering in Fall 2009)
Tuition:	$1550 (Includes room and meals)

Details

UCLA School of Theater Film and Television has an international reputation for quality education in developing individual voices of the next generation of filmmakers. This same passion and quality is now being brought to a younger generation of voices with the UCLA Arts Camp in Beginning Digital Filmmaking. This camp is being taught by award winning professionals who have contributed as faculty of the UCLA Film and Television Department. Basic techniques of digital production and postproduction will be taught while maintaining an understanding of storytelling. Using the same state of the art equipment as the Advanced Digital Filmmaking Camp, campers will be immersed in the creativity of image storytelling using supportive sound to speak their message through the digital medium. No previous experience is necessary, just a passion for storytelling through images.

This summer we are offering two sessions of a Beginning Digital Film Camp which focuses on story telling while introducing elements of digital production and post production to the campers. You may have done some filmmaking in school or with your home camcorder and you will find that in the Beginning Digital Film Camp you will be using State of the Art high end digital equipment: the same equipment that is used by digital feature film makers in Hollywood. The digital camps meet on an actual soundstage in the Film, Television and Digital Media Department of the School and will experience the creativity that is immersed in the halls of the film school. The head of the Beginning Digital Film Camps is Gregori Viens, a young filmmaker and one of the visiting faculty in the School of Theater Film and Television.

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 Information

Students check-in between 1pm and 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 (Saturday) between 9am and 12pm. There will be an additional $100 fee for the overnight stay.
Airport transportation is available to and from Los Angeles International (LAX) for $30 each way.

College Credit Information

Click here for 2009 UCLA College Credit Information

Program Directors

Duane Dell'Amico
Duane Dell'Amico is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Film and Television. Duane received his Master of Fine Arts from UCLA. A recipient of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, he has been producing and writing professionally for nearly 20 years. Well known in the industry as a writer, his credits include the Japanese animated feature Twilight of the Dark Master as well as the feature Sleep With Me for MGM. A man who thinks story, Duane's other writing commissions include The Ugly Duckling for TKO Toons, Children of the Moon, The Vikings, and Rainbow Ridge for Panama Pictures and Touchtone Pictures highly successful movie Stranger in Between. No stranger to other forms of entertainment, Duane Dell'Amico has also written for the interactive and game community creating stories from some of the most popular interactive games such as Alien Bounty Hunter. A member of the Writers Guild of America, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television is excited to have Duane Dell'Amico guide the young filmmakers in the Beginning Digital Film Camp for 2007.

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.

We invite you to explore our US Performing Arts Camps web site further where you can register online for any of the ucla summer programs offered to high school students.

Click HERE for UCLA Campus Map.

top