JUNE 22 – AUGUST 21 2015
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Calling all kids + teens grades 2-12 with an interest in creative selfexpression, hands-on learning, and fun with technology! The film arts are an excellent way to learn about group decision-making, build selfconfidence, and uncover and nurture those special talents within. Experiment with and learn about media arts and technology from our School of Film faculty. No previous experience is required—just the desire to participate in an active, fun, and educational learning experience. All equipment and supplies are included. You bring the ideas!
The Northwest Film Center School of Film, initiated in 1972, is one of the largest and oldest community film schools in the nation, offering classes and workshops on an avocational basis, as well as for academic credit in partnership with local colleges and universities. School of Film faculty are working artists who devote a portion of their professional lives to teaching. An optional Certificate Program in Film allows individuals to pursue a sequential course of study toward their personal goals in film. The School’s statewide outreach arm, the Young Filmmakers Program for Kids + Teens, conducts hands-on filmmaking projects with schools and community groups, provides professional development for K-12 teachers, and produces the annual student recognition program Fresh Film Northwest for teens. The School operates in tandem with the Film Center’s year-round exhibition program of foreign, classic, experimental, and independent works which showcases a wide array of regional, national, and international cinema and includes the annual Portland International Film Festival and Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival.
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REGISTER ONLINE Register online at nwfilm.org/school. Tuition and lab fees are due at time of registration. Returning students already have an account on file. Please contact the School of Film at info@nwfilm.org or 503-221-1156 to obtain your user name and password. You will receive a confirmation of your registration by email. When maximum enrollment is reached, a wait list will be generated, and you will be contacted as space becomes available. Classes may be canceled due to under-enrollment, in which case students will be contacted by phone in advance and a full refund issued.
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE Families with a high-interest child or teen and significant financial need may request tuition assistance to any of the camps offered. Applications will be accepted until this year’s funds are exhausted. Download the application form at nwfilm.org/school/ info/camp. REFUNDS The refund policy is as follows: 30 or more days before the first day of camp – 90% refund; 15-29 days before the first day of camp – 50% refund; 0-14 days before the first day of camp – NO refund.
NOTE: Grade level refers to Fall 2015.
Location: Northwest Film Center, 934 SW Salmon Mailing Address: 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205
Staff Help: Monday–Friday 9 AM–5 PM 503-221-1156 Register online: nwfilm.org/school
ANDREW BLUBAUGH is a filmmaker and performance artist whose work has screened at Sundance, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, ClermontFerrand, PDX Fest, and the Seattle International Film Festival. He has taught Film Camp classes for ten years and regularly instructs the Media Arts Academy for Teens.
MADDIE LOFTESNES is a freelance illustrator/ animator with a background in art and design. As part of the Animated Arts Program at the Pacific NW College of Art, she facilitates technical support for students. She also teaches stop motion animation at Open Meadow High School. This is her second year of teaching Film Camp.
EMILIE-ROSE (POSIE) CURRIN teaches filmmaking and art at the youth and adult levels with a focus on inspiration and collaboration. Her films merge conversation, poetry, community building, and sometimes visual art and dance. She holds an MFA in Studio Practice from PSU. This is her second year with Film Camp.
HAZEL MALONE has worked as an animation set dresser, prop maker and character fabricator for such entities as Bent Image Lab, Ackerman Films and LAIKA. She has been teaching animation to young people for more than seven years. This is her fourth year of teaching Film Camp.
BRENDA GRELL is an experimental filmmaker with an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design who works in digital design and new media. This is her fourth year teaching computer animation for Film Camp. She also teaches at Washington State University, Vancouver. LEE KRIST specializes in hand-processed film techniques and the century-old tradition of the hand-crank projector. His work includes BIG FILMS, screened at the Whitney Museum and San Francisco Cinematheque, and TABLEAUX VIVANTS, an installation. This is his eighth year of teaching Film Camp.
JEAN MARGARET THOMAS, a graduate of the Pacific Northwest College of Art, is a director of photography, gaffer, and electrician for the stopmotion animation and live-action film industries, working on feature films, television shows, commercials, independent films, and music videos. She returns for a third year of Film Camp. MELISSA TVETAN is an experimental filmmaker with a background in both live action and animation. As an editorial manager at LAIKA/house, she worked on commercials for Sony, M&Ms, and Planters Peanuts. For the Sundance Institute Directors Lab, she helps emerging filmmakers. This is her second year of teaching Film Camp.
CAMP
Grade
JUNE 22
JUNE 29
JULY 6
Digital Moviemaking
2-4
Digital Moviemaking
4-6
X
Stop Motion Animation
4-6
X
Digital Moviemaking
6-8
X
Computer Animation
6-8
Green Screen Visual Effects
6-8
Stop Motion Animation
6-8
16 mm Shoot + Process + Edit
9-12
Vintage Film Remix
9-12
Computer Animation
9-12
Media Arts Academy for Teens
9-12
JULY 13
X X
JULY 20
JULY 27
AUGUST 3
X
X
X
X X
X
X
X
X
AUGUST 10
AUGUST 17 X
X
X
X
X
X X X
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X X
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DIGITAL MOVIEMAKING FOR 2ND-4TH
DIGITAL MOVIEMAKING FOR 6TH-8TH
COMPUTER ANIMATION FOR TWEENS
SECTION 1: MON-FRI, JUN 22-26, 8:45 AM-3 PM SECTION 2: MON-FRI, JUL 20-24, 8:45 AM-3 PM SECTION 3: MON-FRI, AUG 3-7, 8:45 AM-3:00 PM SECTION 4: MON-FRI, AUG 17-21, 8:45AM-3:00 PM Learn how filmmakers use camera angles, lighting, sound, and editing to tell stories and how film crews work together to make movies. Experiment with different visual storytelling techniques. You’ll make several short films in different styles, trying your hand at live-action directing, shooting, and editing. You’ll gain the insight and skills to keep making your own movies! The week will culminate in a family screening, complete with popcorn. Completed films will be compiled and uploaded to a special class online video album. Enrollment Limit: 12. Select one of four sections. TUITION: $295 EQUIPMENT/LAB FEE: $50
SECTION 1: MON-FRI, JUL 6-10, 9 AM-3 PM SECTION 2: MON-FRI, JUL 13-17, 9 AM-3PM SECTION 3: MON-FRI, JUL 27-31, 9 AM-3 PM Make a dramatic movie in five days! The pace will be fast, but you’ll learn the basics of working together as a movie crew, operating a professional-level digital video camera, directing actors, sound recording, and digital editing. At the end of the week, a short drama will be “in the can.” The week will culminate in a family screening, complete with popcorn. Completed films will be uploaded to a special class online video album. Enrollment Limit: 14. Select one of three sections. TUITION: $295 EQUIPMENT/LAB FEE: $50
SECTION 1: MON-FRI, JUL 13-17, 9 AM-1 PM SECTION 2: MON-FRI, JUL 27-31, 9 AM-1 PM SECTION 3: MON-FRI, AUG 3-7, 9 AM-1 PM Bring two-dimensional graphic artwork to life using Adobe Flash software on Apple digital workstations. Learn how animators create motion using techniques such as squash and stretch, staging, timing, and parallax scrolling. Animate video and/or scan in and manipulate your own artwork. Record your own voiceovers and sound effects and create your own animated sequences frame by frame. The week will culminate in a family screening, complete with popcorn. Completed films will be uploaded to a special class online video album. Enrollment Limit: 11. Select one of three sections. TUITION: $295 EQUIPMENT/LAB FEE: $50
DIGITAL MOVIEMAKING FOR 4TH-6TH SECTION 1: MON-FRI, JUL 6-10, 8:45 AM-3 PM SECTION 2: MON-FRI, JUL 13-17, 8:45 AM-3 PM SECTION 3: MON-FRI, JUL 20-24, 8:45 AM-3 PM SECTION 4: MON-FRI, AUG 3-7, 8:45 AM-3 PM SECTION 5: MON-FRI, AUG 10-14, 8:45 AM-3 PM SECTION 6: MON-FRI, AUG 17-20, 8:45 AM-3 PM Learn how filmmakers use camera angles, lighting, sound, and editing to tell stories and how film crews work together to make movies. Experiment with different visual storytelling techniques. You’ll make several short films in different styles, trying your hand at live-action directing, shooting, and editing. You’ll gain the insight and skills to keep making your own movies! The week will culminate in a family screening, complete with popcorn. Completed films will be compiled and uploaded to a special class online video album. Enrollment Limit: 12. Select one of six sections. TUITION: $295 EQUIPMENT/LAB FEE: $50
GREEN SCREEN VISUAL EFFECTS FOR 6TH-8TH MON-FRI, JUL 27-31, 1:30-5:30 PM We’ll start by filming you and/or your props in front of a green background. Then you’ll go into the editing lab to pick your own backdrop and, using professional digital editing software, electronically transport yourself and/or your objects to another world: outer space, foreign cities, underwater, or...your own idea. Go ahead—wear a green shirt to camp and watch your body disappear! The week will culminate in a family screening, complete with popcorn. Completed films will be uploaded to a special class online video album. Enrollment Limit: 11. TUITION: $215 EQUIPMENT/LAB FEE: $50
STOP-MOTION ANIMATION FOR 6TH-8TH SECTION 1: MON-FRI, JUL 20-24, 9 AM-3PM SECTION 2: MON-FRI, AUG 17-21, 9AM-3PM Bring your drawings, artwork, three-dimensional objects, cutouts, and graphic images to life. Learn how animators create movement using traditional stop-motion animation and a video camera to shoot sets. Record your action frame by frame to make up your own animation sequences. The week will culminate in a family screening, complete with popcorn. The completed films will be uploaded to a special class online video album. Enrollment Limit: 14. Select one of three sections. TUITION: $295 EQUIPMENT/LAB FEE: $50
STOP-MOTION ANIMATION FOR 4TH-6TH MON-FRI, AUG 4-8, 8:45 AM-3 PM Bring your drawings, artwork, three-dimensional objects, cutouts, and graphic images to life. Learn how animators create movement using traditional stop-motion animation and a video camera to shoot sets. Record your action frame by frame to make up your own animation sequences. The week will culminate in a family screening, complete with popcorn. The completed films will be uploaded to a special class online video album. Enrollment Limit: 14 TUITION: $295 EQUIPMENT/LAB FEE: $50
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16MM SHOOT + PROCESS + EDIT FOR 9TH-12TH MON-WED, JUN 22-24 & MON-WED, JUN 29-JUL 1, 12-5 PM This is your chance to experience actual black-and-white celluloid motion picture film, the industry standard until the arrival of videotape and digital video. Learn to load and operate a basic 16mm film camera. Sharpen your understanding of cinematography techniques as you plan and shoot a series of short outdoor scenes in the downtown area. Then work with the instructor to handprocess the film and prepare it for transfer to a digital file. Using the Film Center digital editing lab, edit your footage into a finished short “collage” film. The week will culminate in a family screening, complete with popcorn. Completed films will be uploaded to a special class online video album. Enrollment Limit: 11. Lab fee includes film stock and supplies. TUITION: $295 EQUIPMENT/LAB FEE: $50
COMPUTER ANIMATION FOR TEENS MON-FRI, AUG 3-7, 1:30-5:30 PM Bring two-dimensional graphic artwork to life using Adobe Flash software on Apple digital workstations. Learn how animators create motion using techniques such as squash and stretch, staging, timing, and parallax scrolling. Animate video and/or scan in and manipulate your own artwork. Record your own voiceovers and sound effects and create your own animated sequences frame by frame. The week will culminate in a family screening, complete with popcorn. Completed films will be uploaded to a special class online video album. Enrollment Limit: 11. TUITION: $295 EQUIPMENT/LAB FEE: $50
VINTAGE FILM RE-MIX SECTION 1: MON-FRI, JUL 6-10, 1:00-5:00 PM SECTION 2: MON-FRI, JUL 13-17, 1:00-5:00 PM We’ve pulled some cool-looking 16mm films from the 1950s and 1960s out of storage and transferred them to digital just for fun (sports, documentaries, educational, industrials, TV shows and more). Now its your turn to lay down a music “bed” (bring in something you love or select from our music library) and exercise your creative powers to edit everything together into something that’s truly your own. Using Final Cut Pro X software, you’ll learn to set up a project, organize shots, add sound effects and text. Experiment with rhythm and pacing and learn about “matched action” and “montage” editing styles. The week will culminate in a family screening, complete with popcorn. Completed films will be uploaded to a special class online video album. Enrollment Limit: 11. Select one of two sections. TUITION: $225 EQUIPMENT/LAB FEE: $50
This is the ultimate destination class for the highly motivated, film-interested teen. SECTION 1: MON-FRI, JUL 13-17 & MON-WED, JUL 20-22, 9 AM-5 PM SECTION 2: MON-FRI, AUG 10-15 & MON-WED, AUG 17-19, 9 AM-5 PM ANDY BLUBAUGH If you’re thinking about going to film/art school, or want to experience the excitement (and challenges) of creating an entire dramatic film from scratch, you don’t have to go to New York or Los Angeles. Now in its 16th year, the MEDIA ARTS ACADEMY FOR TEENS is the School of Film’s premier opportunity for teens to: • Learn with award-winning film professionals • Use professional HD digital video equipment • Be part of a film crew • Get involved in scripting, planning, casting, directing, working with actors, shooting, • Learn Avid Media Composer industry lighting, sound recording, editing, and more! standard software Bring several script ideas to the first day. You’ll work as a group to determine what is produceable, and what attributes make a story great. One or more ideas will come together into an original screenplay, and production will begin! Come prepared to work hard and learn an amazing amount! Expect at least one long shooting day during the class. The week will culminate in a screening for family and friends in the Film Center’s state-of-the-art Whitsell Auditorium. Tuition includes catered lunches. No previous experience is required. Completed films will be uploaded to a special class online video album. Enrollment Limit: 14. Select one of two sections. TUITION: $995 EQUIPMENT/LAB FEE: $125 PSU CREDIT FEE: $260 (optional) PSU REC CTR FEE: $41 (required with PSU credit option)
CALL FOR ENTRIES! FRESH FILM NORTHWEST TEEN FILM FESTIVAL ENTRY DEADLINE: AUGUST 20 Open to any young person, age 13-19, living in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska. Chosen films are included in a free public screening presented in November in the Whitsell Auditorium as part of the 2015 Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival. No entry fee. For more information, visit nwfilm.org/festivals.
DIGITAL FILMMAKING FOR K-12 TEACHERS: INTEGRATIVE APPROACHES MON-FRI, JUN 22-26, 9 AM-4 PM A five-day intensive opportunity for K-12 educators from all endorsement areas to learn the hands-on basics of media production. Undergraduate and graduate credit available through PSU. See complete class description on page 11.
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HIGH SCHOOL CREDIT: The Academy may qualify for high school arts or elective credit through your school district. Inquire with your local guidance counselor. THE FRANK HOOD SCHOLARSHIP: A full scholarship to the MEDIA ARTS ACADEMY FOR TEENS is available on a competitive basis to an individual with high interest and demonstrated capacity (need may also be a factor). The application deadline is June 12, 2014. Download the application form at nwfilm.org/school/info/scholarships.
THANKS TO OUR CONTRIBUTORS Oregon Arts Commission Henry Lea Hillman Jr. Foundation James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation Sonic Media King Family Foundation Women in Film PDX Frank Hood Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation Portland State University ZGF Architects Regional Arts & Culture Council Marylhurst University Pro Photo Supply Anne E. Berni Foundation Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation Juan Young Trust