What can you do in four weeks? Develop your cinematic directing and editing skills to produce a short film.
Learn about creative cinematic approaches to visual storytelling. Through hands-on instruction using Tisch’s professional digital cameras and editing workstations, you can see your ideas come alive on screen.
Program Overview
The curriculum for the Summer Filmmakers Workshop for High School Students, offered through the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television, is similar to that of the undergraduate degree program. It combines intensive professional training with a comprehensive understanding of the techniques and theories behind the art of cinematic visual storytelling production. Prior experience in film or video is not required.
Note: The students in the Summer Filmmakers Workshop will be in classes and workshops Monday to Friday, 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., including academic classes, professional training, and production/post production time. Students may also need to do some of the creative homework (writing or editing) in the evenings and weekends as they work individually or collaborate with peers on assigned projects.
“The opportunities it gave me to grow as an artist, student, and person, through the workshops, speakers, projects, and one-on-one mentorship from some of the world’s greatest professors in the arts made this incomparable to any experience I’ve ever had.”
-Tyler Rabinowitz
This workshop introduces students to the theory and techniques of developing and producing short visual stories made on digital video cameras and edited digitally on computer workstations with Adobe Premiere. Students may enter the program with little or no experience in film or video, so early exercises familiarize them with technology while introducing documentary, experimental, and narrative approaches. Working in crews, students develop their writing, directing, and editing skills as they produce short movie projects including a final 3-4 minute film. Special emphasis is placed on storytelling through visual language.
Classes take place Monday - Friday. Students may use the weekends to work on assignments, editing, and independent work.
This sample schedule is based on previous summers to give prospective students an understanding of the highly structured and rigorous training offered in the Tisch Summer High School Filmmakers Workshop. This sample schedule is an overview of one of the four weeks in the program. Students accepted and confirmed for the program will be given their actual schedule on orientation day.
Monday Morning - Lecture 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Introduction To Film Language and Visual Storytelling
Afternoon - Lab 1:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. Camera Technical Seminar
Group Production - Exercise 1: The Frame
Program Fee (activities facilitated by Residential Life & Housing): $200
Housing for 4 weeks: $1,764
10 meals* a week for 4 weeks: $796
*As this is a residential program, students are automatically enrolled in the 10 meals a week plan for the length of the program. Students have the option of increasing their meal plan if they wish.
Students accepted to the Tisch Summer High School program live in NYU housing in Manhattan. Per NYU policy, students must to be at least 15 to reside in housing for this program.
Scholarships
Tisch has a limited number of full scholarships for high school students to attend the Tisch summer programs. Scholarships are given to students who demonstrate the most financial need.
