The Beargrass Media and Highlands Community Ministries June 2019 Summer Media Camp
Held at Bardstown Road Presbyterian Church June 10 – 14, 2019
The Camp featured 14 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. We made a total of 14 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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SHHHHH
Two girls in the “Quiet Room” get annoyed by the loud music from the boys in the next room and decide they need to pull the plug.
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Heavy Thoughts
A bunch of kids wonder if thinking heavy thoughts would be detected by an ordinary bathroom scale and decide to test this scientific premise.
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Breakout Sessions
In breakout sessions, we broke into 2 small groups. 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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A Little Help
Two kids are bored doing dishes and dream of floating on a boat in the ocean. One of the pair sets out to at least provide the next best thing.
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Scavenger Hunt
A bunch of kids attempt to fulfill a picture scavenger hunt by using one of the members’ photographic memory.
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Genre Pieces
The kids were given a generic script and asked to interpret it into four different genres. They made their own choices about how to interpret elements of a genre and chose shots and camera angles.
The Box
This one was in the Genre “Drama”.
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Scare Package
This one was in the genre “Horror”.
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Boxception
This one was in the genre “Comedy/Scifi”.
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Western Surprise
This was in the genre “Western”.
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Camp Montage
This is a montage of several of the elements that the kids learned at the camp including sound effects, camera angles, continuation, green screen, etc.
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Short Vodcast Compilation
Several of the kids watch videos of You Tube game players, so we gave them the opportunity to test out how gamers create this kind of content.
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Avery P Full Vodcast
Several of the kids watch videos of You Tube game players, so we gave them the opportunity to test out how gamers create this kind of content. This is Avery’s contribution.
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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: Nate of Nat Baxter, a designer
Prop: Notebook
Line of Dialog: “Now that’s what I’m talking about”.
Also, each team had to include one foley sound.
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Fashion Disaster
This team drew “Horror and Romance”.
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The Notebook
This team drew “Musical”
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Fists of Fries
This team drew “Buddy Film and Martial Arts”.
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