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    Emerging Filmmakers Cinematography

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    • Listing Type: Summer Programs
    • Program Delivery: Day
    • Provided By: College
    • Session Start: June, July
    • Session Length: One Week
    • Entering Grade: 10th, 11th, 12th, PG
    • Gender: Coed
    • Category: Performing & Visual Arts
    • Sub-Categories: Filmmaking and Digital Media, Arts, Photography
    • Selective: No
    • Ages: 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
    • Career Clusters: Arts, Audio/Video Technology, and Communications
    • Credit Awarded: No
    • Last Updated:January 2025
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    Overview

    This one-week intensive workshop is designed for highly motivated rising juniors and seniors, and spring 2025 high school graduates. Students are immersed in the concepts, creativity and technique of cinematic lighting through a combination of lectures and hands-on lighting exercises. Students will explore such concepts as composition, framing, blocking, lens choice, camera movement/placement, exposure, lighting techniques/equipment, shot design, and set protocol.

    UCLA Emerging Filmmakers Cinematography gives high school students an unparalleled opportunity to study cinematography at one of the most prestigious film schools in the world. This one-week intensive workshop is designed for highly motivated rising juniors and seniors, and spring 2025 high school graduates. Students are immersed in the concepts, creativity and technique of cinematic lighting through a combination of lectures and hands-on lighting exercises. Students will explore such concepts as composition, framing, blocking, lens choice, camera movement/placement, exposure, lighting techniques/equipment, shot design, and set protocol. - Students work on UCLA sound stages with the latest digital cinema cameras and lighting equipment - The program curriculum consists of a combination of lectures and hands-on lighting exercises - Class exercises will be screened at the end of the workshop. Friends and family are welcome! This is an intensive immersion experience for beginning to intermediate filmmakers designed to form a basic understanding of the aesthetic, creative, and logistical decisions involved in lighting for film and television. Previous experience in cinematography is not required. This program offers an introduction to the concepts and practices of lighting for film and television through discussion and intensive hands-on, laboratory experience. Through lectures, discussions, workshops and group exercises, students will form a basic understanding of the aesthetic, creative, and logistical decisions involved in lighting for film and television. This includes composition, framing, blocking, lens choice, camera movement/placement, exposure, lighting techniques/equipment, shot design, and set protocol. Class exercises will be screened at the end of the workshop. Friends and family are welcome! UCLA Emerging Filmmakers will receive a certificate of completion at the conclusion of the program. The program does not carry college credit. Due to the intensive nature of the program, a maximum of one program absence is permitted.