Thinking about applying to Heights Middle School Shorts? Here are five reasons you should:
1. You Will Learn from Great Instructors
We’ve got an impressive group of instructors lined up at Height Middle School Shorts for our Summer 2021 camp: a Heights grad with a film and television degree who’s worked on a major production, an actor and teacher who’s been performing on Northeast Ohio stages for more than ten years, a former songwriter with extensive experience helping kids cultivate their creative writing talents, and a music instructor who’s worked in local theater productions.
Just the right mix to bring HMSS campers the practical experience and perspective they need.
2. You Find Out How Filmmaking Works
There’s more to making a movie than pointing a camera and starting to record. Stories have to be written, blocked out into scenes, and turned into scripts. Actors need to be guided. Voices and sound have to be recorded, mixed, and added.
HMSS campers will learn how to turn ideas into screenplays. They’ll plan out scenes, shoot multiple takes, and add in special effects. They’ll edit footage into a logical tale. They’ll choose and direct actors for their productions. In short, they’ll find out what it takes to turn a story into a film.
3. You Hang Out with Great Friends
At HMSS, you’ll spend three weeks collaborating, compromising, and connecting with Heights kids, solving problems and sharing ideas and most importantly working together to produce a finished movie that tells your story.
And you’ll spend that time with wonderful friends: both new friends you wouldn’t have met without attending camp, and old friends you’ve known for years. You’ll work together to produce a movie, to write and act and direct and edit a film that tells your story.
4. You Learn About Yourself
Before HMSS, most of the kids attending camp have never made a movie. They haven’t written a story, turned it into a screenplay, recited their lines in front of the camera, directed a film shoot, or produced a film that they’re proud of showing off to their families and friends.
That all changes once camp starts. Campers figure out how to settle disagreements over creative ideas. They develop new skills – like communication, teamwork, problem-solving, conflict resolution, and leadership – and gain a new appreciation for the skills that others bring to the mix. And they learn just what they’re made of as they work together to create.
You’ll learn how to do all that at HMSS. More importantly, you’ll learn that you can do all that – and much more – as you develop confidence in your work and your creative abilities.
5. You Get to Make a Movie
At HMSS, campers make a movies. Does it get any better than that?
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Sound like your kind of camp? Complete and submit our online application today.