Teens: Hollywood Visual Effects for Filmmaking

Overview
What You’ll Learn
Who Should Attend
Related Courses
Fees

Create your own Special Effects Blockbuster

Go behind the scenes and bring the movies to life as you create a special effects blockbuster.
Learn how visual effects are created in Hollywood when you experience the thrilling world of movie production.

Use state-of-the-art equipment and industry-standard software to create visual effects like you’ve seen in the movies. This exciting experience goes beyond the screen. Learn how to composite video, use motion tracking, color correction, green screens and bring 3D graphics to life inside your own film. Upon completion of the program, you’ll take a home a DVD of your finished movie to show family and friends.

What You’ll Learn: Hollywood Visual Effects for Filmmaking

Course Content	Software Used
• Basic introduction to visual effects • Advanced camera techniques to create special effects within camera • Layering, basic compositing, color correction • Shooting green screen, masking • Learn how to use FCPX, FCP Studio 2, Motion, After Effects, and more • How to export & compress video for web, YouTube, mobile devices and DVD

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

Who Should Attend: Hollywood Visual Effects for Filmmaking
Ages 13–17 | Beginner–Advanced | No Filmmaking or Visual Effects Experience Required

This program is designed for aspiring filmmakers and visual effects artists who want to learn how visual effects are created in Hollywood and how to create them for their own films. Want to make movie magic using special effects? This is the place.

Get real-world experience compositing video, using motion tracking, color correction, green screening and learn how to bring 3D effects to life through motion pictures.

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

Fees & Additional Options: Hollywood Visual Effects for Filmmaking

Options	Price	Duration	Meals
Tuition (base price)	$1,045	1 Week, Mon-Fri	Lunch not included
Lunch Plan (for non-residential students)	add $65	1 Weeks, Mon-Fri	5 lunches
Residential Program – Dorm (shared room)	add $495	1 Week, Sun-Fri	3 meals/day
Residential Program (Harvard/UCLA)	add $795	1 Week, Sun-Fri	3 meals/day
Stanford Continuing Studies Credit	add $90	4 Quarter Units	NA