Posts Tagged filmmaking courses in the San Diego Area
Finding a Balanced Summer Camp: Technology and the Outdoors
Digital Media Academy News + Events | March 18th, 2010 by Margaret Lim
What happens when a kid that loves skateboarding or surfing combines those outdoor activites with a filmmaking summer camp? Traditional summer camp + tech summer camp = FUN!
What are you looking for in a summer camp for your kids? One concern of parents sending children to computer-based summer camps is how active the experience will be. Will the whole day be spent in front of the computer? How can I balance my child’s interest in technology with my desire for them to have a physically active summer camp experience?
One option is to sign up separately for computer-based summer camps and for sports summer camps. The costs, however, can add up quickly. Digital Media Academy offers a summer camp alternative. The solution is to consider summer camp programs that balance the two areas with very unique experiences.
Students looking to combine an interest in film making with an interest in skateboarding can participate in a weeklong summer camp with Digital Media Academy called Skateboarding and Filmmaking. Teens visit three skate parks and receive instruction from experts while also capturing the action on film. In a state of the art classroom studio, students learn to edit and integrate special effects to create a skateboarding video. This summer camp will be offered at University of California San Diego – UCSD in La Jolla from August 3-7, at Stanford University in the San Francisco Bay Area from July 20-24. Families have the option of enrolling kids for day camp, or the residential sleepover summer camp option to stay in the dorms. (This is a great pre-college experience for kids, especially kids travelling to the United States for an American summer camp experience!)
For the first time this summer, Digital Media Academy is also offering a Surfing and Filmmaking summer camp at UCSD for both teens and kids. Students improve surfing skills and create a video. The summer camp will be offered four times, beginning the weeks of July 13, 20, 27, and August 3, in partnership with the La Jolla Surf Camp, parent company of Surf Divas.
For enrollment now, please visit our registration page: Digital Media Academy Summer Camp
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The Joy of Teaching Final Cut Pro
Digital Media Academy News + Events | April 3rd, 2009 by Instructor
By James Alguire, Lead Final Cut Pro Instructor, DMA @ UC San Diego
I’ve been teaching Final Cut Pro courses at DMA for about 4 years now.
Each time I teach a class, I am challenged and grow as a teacher and also as a Final Cut Pro user and editor.
Final Cut is such a robust program and since I’ve been editing on it since version ONE (we are now up to SIX),
I have watched it grow and offer even more tools for my work.
What’s great about teaching new and existing FCP users is that there is always a question of ‘How do I do this?’, and sometimes, I’ve never had to execute said question, so as a group we figure it out together! I love collaborating with my students in that regard. And sometimes I watch their projects and get inspired in my own work. (Another great benefit to teaching!)
I also love working with ‘mature’ students who are adapting to a new platform: Sometimes an Operating System – Sometimes a new program.
I love the moment when they are able to execute an edit and they get very excited and want to show me their work!
This always reminds me of my first films, when I found the ‘right’ cut, I always wanted to share it with as many people as possible.
At the end of the day, editing for me is about telling a story. Choosing the right ‘frame’ to cut upon is sometimes essential to telling that story.
FCP is a tool that we learn and I embrace the challenges of helping new and current editors learn their tool to better tell their stories.
