The Beargrass Media and Highlands Community Ministries July 2018 Summer Media Camp
Held at Bardstown Road Presbyterian Church July 9 – 13, 2018
The Camp featured 22 students rising into grades 6 – 9. the camp was led by Patrick Fitzgerald and Jon-Mark Sandquist. The syllabus guides students through learning how to write, record, edit, and publish videos.
The Camp began by breaking into 2 groups and making “Icebreaker Videos”. The videos serve to be an icebreaker in getting students to learn to work together on projects and get to know each other, but they also each contain at least one of each of the main camera angles that students will use the rest of their filmmaking career like wide shots, mid shots, close-ups, cut ins, etc. An icebreaker video comes with a very detailed screenplay that prescribes each shot and camera angle. After recording the raw material, the students are guided through a crash course in video editing that ends up with a finished video in about 2 hours.
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Number One Fan
A young lad is a fan of the New York Yankees and his favorite player Derek Jeter. He sets out to purchase an authentic autographed Derek Jeter baseball, and in the process, he encounters some Red Sox Fans.
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World Champion
A girl sets out to get into the Guiness Book of World Records. Along the way, she realizes how tough a task that is, but that persistence really does pay off.
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Breakout Sessions
In breakout sessions, we broke into 4 smaller groups. The groups were led by Patrick Fitzgerald, Jon-Mark Sandquist, Lucy Fitzgerald, and Anna Loring. (Lucy and Anna will both be Juniors in college this fall and are great at making videos with kids.) Each group was given a script with very little direction on how to break the script into shots, camera angles, etc. The students gave a lot of input and figured it out with the help of their group leaders. Here are their finished pieces.
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Envy
A bunch of students experience Envy when their phones look like historical artifacts, and their friend has the latest and greatest.
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Rock E
An epic tale of the world championship of Rock Paper Scissors.
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Air Mail
Two groups of teens separated by a short distance decide to communicate via air mail.
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The Greatest Game
These kids wax poetic about intense competition and find out how sports really is a metaphor or life.
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Green Screens, Teleprompters, and TV Studios (Oh My!)
Demo Podcast
This video short is a parody on gaming podcasts, and still somehow better than many actual ones. Brevity is key.
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Fun with Green Screens
The kids experimented with teleprompters and green screens.
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WHAS Tour
The video camp took a tour of WHAS TV Studio. We were given the royal treatment by Larry Handley, Kaitlyn Fish, and Juliana Valencia.
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24 Hour Film Project
The kids were given 4 prompts and asked to make a movie in 24 hours. (Which was actually about 8 hours of camp time.)
Character: Reuben or Ruby Crane
Prop: Duffel Bag
Line of Dialog: It’s harder than it looks.
Genre: Random by team drawn from a hat
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Earth Man
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The Real McCoy vs. Ruby Red
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Junk Mail
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