Updated 7/27/2024
Camp Highlights
Sunny made this highlight reel from verious parts of camp including green screen, foley sound, animation, and more:
Sunny also drew this fun caricature of Patrick and Jon-Mark that we have pasted a link to below:
Caricature of Jon-Mark and Patrick – July 2024
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24 Hour Film Challenge – July 2024
The 24 Hour Film Challenge began on Thursday after lunch and concluded on Friday at lunch time. Each team randomly drew 2 genres out of a hat, and they had to make their movie as one or both of those genres. The team wrote, cast, recorded, and edited their film during those 24 hours.
There were 3 required elements for each team to use:
Prop: A piece of rope
Line of Dialogue: You can’t be serious.
Character: Dave or Debbie France, an author
Below are the 7 films the teams produced:
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Thursday and Friday
Many Campers made their own projects during the week and sent us their videos.
“Langston the Movie 2” is a continuation of Langston the Movie from the summer of 2023. There was a temporary version created in June 2024, but this is the updated version.
Will Crabtree and the crew ask that people watch the original first:
Here is the one from 2023:
Here is the Sequel from July 2024:
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Wednesday
We covered Film Genres, and we gave each team the exact same script. They were allowed to pick their own genres to make their movies in. Here was their prompt:
The whole video should be less than 90 seconds. Start with an establishing shot that lasts at least 6 seconds followed up by 3 shots shorter in length that get closer to the narrator ending with an object in the narrator’s closed hands concealing something. The music in the video should set the tone for what the genre is.
Narrator close up on camera: “You will never believe what we found”
VOICEOVER: It’s not just what we found but where we found it. And THAT just led to more questions. How did it get there, and why? And most importantly, what should we do next? Eventually the answer became clear, and we all decided what needed to be done.
On Wednesday, we also covered the way to record dialog with multiple camera angles and made this quick demo.
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On Monday morning, we covered shot types and then made some icebreaker videos
On Monday Afternoon, we worked on Continuation, which is making sure that one multiple clips with changing camera angles look like continuous motion.
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BELOW THIS LINE IS FROM BEFORE CAMP STARTED
HCM and Beargrass Media will be hosting a one week long video camp July 8-12, 2024 from 9 AM – 4 PM.. (There will also be an almost identical camp June 10-14, 2024.)
The camp is targeted for students rising into grades 3 – 8 in the fall of 2024.
For those already registered, here is the welcome packet:
2024 July HCM Video Camp Welcome Packet
The cost is $260 per student
The camp will be at Highland Presbyterian Church – 1011 Cherokee Road Louisville, KY 40204. This is a really nice facility with great indoor and outdoor recording spaces.
Signup Deadline is July 1, 2024
Sign Up Form for July 2024 Video Camp
To pay for the camp, please use one of the following 3 options:
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Transfer $260 via Venmo and indicate the student’s name and the camp month in the notes. ID: @Patrick-Fitzgerald-68
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Transfer $260 via PayPal to patrickfitzgerald13@gmail.com and indicate the student’s name and the camp month in the notes
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Write a check for $260 to Beargrass Media and mail it to 2513 Blvd Napoleon Louisville KY 40205
See what all the fuss is about! Look below!
To watch a 2-minute promotion about our video camps, please click below:
To peruse all of the Summer 2023 Videos we made at camp, please click one of the 2 links below: