Posts in Category Summer Camp
Make an Amazing Film and Change the World!
Digital Media Academy News + Events, Film Summer Camp, Summer Camp | June 10th, 2010 by Penny
As the admin for this blog, I get to rub shoulders with some pretty talented and amazing technical instructors, and I do get pretty envious! But once in awhile they come to me for my little area of creative thought, and I get to do what I do best, which is to think of how on earth people use the internet to find what they’re looking for. I take that info and share it with the authors, so they can write technical copy to be reachable by those people. I don’t write the articles here, I take the written articles and insert them into the blog with pictures and videos. I add categories and tags, keywords, and I brainstorm about why kids want to come to summer camp – what are the needs that can be met and exceeded by our training and summer camps for kids, teens and adults and how Digital Media Academy’s training and summer camps can help people meet their goals. I try to make sure those important ideas and words are included. And it all ties in together – we have the terrific professional instructors, the amazing university locations for our summer camps (Stanford, UCLA, UC San Diego, University of British Columbia at Vancouver, University of Chicago, Drexel, Swarthmore, Brown, George Washington University Washington, DC, Harvard, University of Texas at Austin.) We just need to present the information in a way that is interesting, original, and findable. Findable being key!
This blog post is an exercise in how to use a few words to describe videos posted by our film students that have attended film summer camps with Digital Media Academy. Our campers love to post their videos on YouTube, what words do they need to use to be found and viewed? If I were a teen with a dream to make an amazing film and change the world, where would I start? I’d probably search the internet for amazing films that are already changing the world, and work backward from there to learn where to go to learn how to make an amazing video! Digital Media Academy teaches a wide variety of courses, some of which teach kids to make amazing films at film summer camp.
As I was writing a pretty dry document for our instructors to use this year, the nuts and bolts of posting student videos to YouTube, I was trying to think of a great example of a “viral video” – the holy grail of “viral” and how to achieve that goal. And I remembered that I had used a great video as and example in a “surprise and delight your customer” post… shown here. (And you can also check out another amazing viral video: educate girls)
If I were the original creator of this video, and if I had made it during summer camp, I’d post it with tags like this: “Digital Media Academy Summer Camp”, “Film Summer Camp”, “Make a Film”, “Teen Summer Camp” and so on. To view it on the blog here, post it, click on “embed”, select the viewer color box you like, and select size 560 X 340, and paste it in the post in “Html” view.
Enjoy the video!
I’m going to illustrate a few things simultaneously here, so bear with me as it all weaves together with this one incredible viral film!
Things to Keep In Mind When Posting Summer Camp Videos to YouTube
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Categories – YouTube has several categories that are appropriate for summer camp videos – check out the categories by clicking on the “browse” tab next to the search box.
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Think about your video – if your video is the answer, what was the question? If the question is “I want to watch something funny”, and your video is funny, consider placing it in the “Comedy” category. If it’s a technical film about how to create something using a certain technology, consider “Education”, “HowTo”, “Science & Technology”, or “Gaming”.
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Post your video and select your tags. Tags help people find the video. If the film is made by the Digital Media Academy staff or a student, use “Digital Media Academy” as one of the tags. If it’s made by kids at summer camps, or if this film would help kids looking for a film summer camp see what happens behind the scenes at film summer camp, use “film summer camp” as a tag. If the camp is about “skateboard summer camp” or “academy for game design” use those words in the tags. Whatever the title of the summer camp is, that would make a good tag. Use all of the available tags.
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Write a brief description of the video, mentioning the name of the summer camp, the location of the summer camp, the age group, and what made it special. Include a link to the page on the Digital Media Academy website that displays either the course name of the summer camp, or the location of the program.
I’d love to see all the videos made by students and staff this summer at Digital Media Academy!
This film was made by Keith English, acclaimed artist, animator and instructor for the Digital Media Academy. He created the animations for this promo for the Sonoma International Film Festival.
Kids, post your videos, and leave a comment on this post. Wouldn’t it be fun to have a contest for the funniest video? Please let me know (especially!) if you post a video to the comedy category!
Check out Digital Media Academy’s videos on YouTube! Have a blast at summer camp!
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Come Together and Register for Summer Camp!
American Summer Camp, Camp Life, Digital Media Academy News + Events, Film Summer Camp, Girls and Technology, Kids Computer Camp | June 8th, 2010 by Seamus Harte
In just weeks the summer camp shenanigans of Digital Media Academy will be in full effect and I can’t wait. I love working with kids. Their imaginations and outlook on this world is so refreshing in comparison to the box most adults put their brains in. The summer camp course I’m most excited for is the Come Together: Music and Video Production Class I’ll be teaching this summer. I enjoy the fact that this course shakes your brain to think of everything from producing music and writing lyrics to shooting video and editing in Final Cut Pro. I’m especially excited to expand my instructor skill set from teaching this process in one day to one week. I think the students are going to have a ball and come up with some really creative projects. Here is one of my favorite projects produced in a day on the Lennon Bus in Fairhope, Alabama. It was during all the Swine Flu hype and the students on that day had their own angle on the hoopla. Check it out and be sure to register for the Come Together course HERE.
Stanford and SkateWorks for Teen Summer Camp
Digital Media Academy News + Events, Film Summer Camp, News, Skateboard Summer Camp, Summer Camp, Teen Technology Courses | June 5th, 2010 by Ben Hess
Even if you don’t know an Ollie from a McTwist or Gain from Shutter Speed, Digital Media Academy’s got teens covered this summer at Stanford. We’ve teamed up with leading local retailer SkateWorks and are raffling off a board AND free spot in our upcoming Skateboarding and Filmmaking Camp for Teens.
Or if you’re an experienced boarder and have made videos in the past, you’ll be able to kickflip your vids to an entirely new level. This year’s class at Stanford is taught by taught by SoCal’s visual fx and skateboarding master Nick Guth with UCSC grad and extreme sport junkie Travis Schalfman.
As with all our camps, you have the choice to get a taste of the college life by sleeping at Stanford’s campus each night or come for five action-filled days. Regardless, you’ll wrap the week with a dynamic vid … and there’s even a rumor the Skateworks Team will showcase their gravity-defying talents in an exclusive session for the class.
But if you’re not in the Bay Area this summer, there’s no need to despair. Digital Media Academy also offers the Skateboarding and Filmmaking Camp at UCLA, UCSD, George Washington University and Harvard, while SkateWorks’ brand-name boards, decks, trucks, wheels, and apparel are available for shipment across the country from their website.
Classes are filling up, be sure to register for our raffle before June 18 !
