<p>my son is finishing his junior year and wants to study film production in college. what are the best summer film camps?</p>
<p>There’s SOCAPA; I’m going to a two week pre college program with rolling admission at Syracuse, so check that out. I know NYU has a one week digital filmmaking for no credit, but it still looks good despite that. There’s Julian Krinsky which is supposed to be pretty good and Digital Media Academy.I’m a junior going to the Syracuse program for two weeks while making my two short films. </p>
<p>IMO, the ‘best summer film program’ is here –> <a href=“USC Cinematic Arts | Summer Program Overview”>https://cinema.usc.edu/summer/index.cfm</a>
My youngest daughter went to this a few summers ago and loved it. Super intense, non-stop work that pushes kids beyond their current limits in creativity. Expensive as you are paying private school full tuition rates but you are also getting full college credits.</p>
<p>Best of Luck,
Wheaty</p>
<p>S14 went to the USC summer program as well. He loved it, didn’t want to come back for his senior year. If you can swing the cost, we recommend it.</p>
<p>thanks for the replies, at USC which courses did they take during the summer and did they do minor housing, if yes how was it?</p>
<p>My son took Beginning Filmmaking which was actually two courses, Digital Filmmaking and Intro to Cinematography (I think). He did minor housing and enjoyed it. I think boys are a little easier in this area, he’s fine with whatever. It was the basic dorm room with a random roommate. The roommate was taking a different class. All the minors were housed together, boys on one floor, girls on another. I think you can see the dorm rooms on the website. I remember finding that when we were looking at it.</p>
<p>My daughter took the producing and directing class at Universal Studios and she made a pretty good short western shot on the Universal backlot. USC doesn’t offer Universal any more, this year it’s at Disney or Warner Bros. 8 unit course. She had just turned 16 a few days before the classes started and she was in the minor program. The only issue she had was getting food on Sundays because everything was closed on campus and minors weren’t allowed to leave. They have probably fixed this issue by now. Outside of that it was a great experience.</p>
<p>The best programs would be NYU-Tisch film program for HS students which has competitive admissions and/or the USC program mentioned about, but you have to apply REALLY early because it fills up and the cost is very high. It’s basically the cost of attending USC ($1,300 per unit plus add housing), but you do get USC college credits for it. I couldn’t swing the cost of USC. D got waitlisted at Tisch.</p>
<p>There are a ton of other programs out there. A good one would be a Chapman U. D did US Performing Arts advanced digital film at UCLA campus, taught be the UCLA film profs and supervised by the film grad students. The reason she liked it was because they got to pick actors that are in school for acting, so they are actually good. There are other programs at universities such as Northwestern, to arts colleges such as Interlochen or Cal Arts (csssa), large for profit type of programs such as NYFA or SoCapa, and programs related to tech camps such as Digital Media Academy or ID tech camp.</p>
<p>I would presume that the best film camp experiences are affiliated with great film schools such as USC, NYU, Chapman, UCLA, etc or with great Art schools that have film majors such as SCAD, Emerson, etc.</p>