Hands-On Digital Filmmaking for Teens - Beginning Course Outline
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Hands-On Digital Filmmaking for Teens - Beginning Course Outline
7:30am Organized off campus activities (for youth) Breakfast for overnighters (7:30-8:30 AM) Organized off campus activities (for youth)
8:00am Commuter Registration Classroom Open
8:30am Review & Questions Review & Questions Review & Questions Review & Questions
9:00am Welcome & Introductions. Instruction Begins Start shooting movies / working with cameras. Workshop: Recording audio for interviews and voiceovers Log and capture techniques with Final Cut Pro Transitions, filters, and key framing with FCP
9:30am
10:15am BREAK
10:30am Screenings of films and discussion of filmmaking process. Microphones & audio recording in field Demo and discussion Wrap Shooting of movies. Last of camera techniques in the field. Assembling clips in the Final Cut Pro timeline and instruction with editing interface. More editing tips and finishing the edit.
11:00am
11:30am
Noon LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH
1:00pm Stages of production.
Scriptwriting and storyboarding techniques. Storyboard and script movie.
Shooting Cont. Camera techniques using natural light and reflectors More editing techniques and individual instruction with Final Cut Pro. Introduction to DVD authoring with DVD Studio Pro. Each student authors their own edited movie to DVD
1:30pm
2:00pm Review and discuss short scene shooting exercise
2:30pm
3:00pm Registration & Check-in for Overnighters BREAK
3:15pm Demo: Shooting strategies and techniques for digital filmmaking Shooting cont. Camera techniques using artificial light. Introduction to editing with Final Cut Pro. Capture footage from Tuesday/Wed shoot. Special Effects with Final Cut Pro DMA digital film festival. Screening of every students project and celebration.
4:00pm
4:30pm
5:00pm Dinner for overnighters Home for the day or back to the dorm
5:30pm Dinner for overnighters Dinner and a movie for those staying Friday night
6:00pm Orientation
6:30pm Organized on campus activities (for youth) Classrooms open for project work/optional athletic activities
7:00pm
7:30pm
8:00pm
8:30pm
9:00pm
9:30pm