Kids: Adventures in Surfing and Filmmaking

Capture the day on film and then edit your footage in the studio

Learn how to catch a wave, learn techniques from professional surfers

Young filmmakers get the experience of a lifetime

Use Apple’s Final Cut Pro® to edit your video

Top-Rated Surfing and Movie-making Camp

Experience a digital media camp that combines the exciting worlds of surfing and filmmaking. Campers spend half of each day in the ocean learning or improving their surfing skills, then spend the other half of the day in a state-of-the-art classroom studio creating an incredible video of the experience.

While at the beach, you’ll learn how to handle a surfboard, ocean safety and surfing basics. Learn how to catch a wave, get surf tips from professional surfers, along with special tricks and maneuvers to be the best. In the video studio campers learn how to edit the footage they’ve shot and integrate it with sound and special effects to create a great surf video. All students go home with awesome new surfing skills and their very own surfing video.

What You’ll Learn: Adventures in Surfing & Filmmaking

Course Content Software Used
• Introduction to surfing & basic surfing techniques
• Ocean & general water safety
• Basics surfing video production introduction
• Action sports filming and filmmaking techniques
• Post-production and advanced editing techniques using Final Cut Pro®
• How to compress and export video for the web, YouTube &mobile devices
• Surfboard-handling techniques & surf etiquette

Course may vary slightly based on student expertise & class interest. All students work on their own personal projects, which they keep.

Who Should Attend: Adventures in Surfing & Filmmaking
Ages 8-12 | Beginning to Advanced | No Surfing or Filmmaking Experience Required

Active campers and watersports enthusiasts eager to learn how to handle a surfboard and video camera. For those who enjoy the water and want to learn to develop or sharpen their surfing skills, this camp delivers all that and more. You’ll learn the basics of surfing and ocean safety during the morning session, while in the afternoon learn how to edit together video of the day’s action.

Learn how to capture your experience using state-of-the-art HD video cameras and industry standard software like Final Cut Pro®.

Participants need to be able to swim.

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Questions about a course or additional weeks at DMA? Ready to register? Please call 866.656.3342 for more information and to speak with a Guest Experience Representative.

Fees & Additional Options: Adventures in Surfing and Filmmaking

Options Price Duration Meals
Tuition (base price) $825 1 Week, Mon-Fri Lunch not included
Lunch Plan (for non-residential students) add $65 1 Week, Mon-Fri 5 lunches
Residential Program – Dorm (Not Available at Harvard) add $495 1 Week, Sun-Fri 3 meals/day
Residential Program (UCLA only) add $795 1 Week, Sun-Fri 3 meals/day
Extended Day-Student Program (7:30am-7:00pm) add $195 1 Week, Mon-Fri 3 meals/day

*To view all options, including weekend stays, visit our Options & Fees page.    

1 Week   |   Ages 8-12   |   Beg-Adv

“You learn so many cool things!”
- Abigail, DMA Student

Dates by Location 2012

  • Vancouver, BC

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  • Stanford, CA

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  • Los Angeles, CA

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  • Austin, TX

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  • Washington D.C.

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  • Philadelphia, PA

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  • Swarthmore, PA

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  • Cambridge, MA

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  • Chicago, IL

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  • New York, NY

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