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Apple Announces 2012 Summer Filmmaking Camps for Kids

Interesting on 2 levels... great service that Apple is providing youth and the community, first of all. Second, it's a smart long term marketing move... because those kids will remember all the cool things they could do with Apple products at the Apple store... and one day they'll have money to spend... and I suppose their parents might be impressed too! :)
 
Xscapes said:
Can you tell me the whole process of it, I'm really interested in bringing my nephew.
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Sign up fast it fills up quick!

You have to stay with them to help. They film whatever they want my kids group filled a movie about bears. They were the bears. The staff helps them create / edit a movie with iMovie add music and whatnot. At the end they get a DVD of the movie.

Mine like the freedom of filming and creating the movie. He is 13 now and still laughs when he watches it.

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Sackvillenb said:
Interesting on 2 levels... great service that Apple is providing youth and the community, first of all. Second, it's a smart long term marketing move... because those kids will remember all the cool things they could do with Apple products at the Apple store... and one day they'll have money to spend... and I suppose their parents might be impressed too! :)
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I agree..... 1/2 the parents didn't own Apple computers in my sons camp. A couple said they were coming back to buy one after it was over.
 
Summer Camp

I wish they ran a summer camp like this for adults. I would love to learn the basics of filmmaking and creating sound tracks.
 
ArtOfWarfare said:
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Is it normal for parents to stick around or do they just drop off the kids, take off for 90 minutes, and return to pick them up?
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according to the website that is not allowed. Liability is my guess

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G5isAlive said:
what about camp for adult film making? wait.. that didn't come out right... I meant camp for adults that want to make films.
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They do workshops all the time for the adults
 
ArtOfWarfare said:
I'm still at least 12 years away from having kids that could do this, I imagine, but I'm curious anyways... Are there any parents on the forums that send their kids to these? Any thoughts on it... Impacts on the kid, impacts on you and your spouse?

Is it normal for parents to stick around or do they just drop off the kids, take off for 90 minutes, and return to pick them up?
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I signed up both of my kids. They've been to field trips to the Apple store where they have made movies with iMovie. They love it. I will stick around for the hour and a half; I teach video editing to high school students using Final Cut, so I don't really know iMovie; maybe I'll learn a few tips.
 
I wish they did this in the UK. My 10 year old has aspergers and would love to do something like this. She made a film on her iPod and I got our IT guy at work to burn it to a disk (as I'm a pc man and had no clue about formats etc) he even took a still from the film and printed it on the disk with a title. She was so proud of herself that day.
Good on you apple. Once I get my iMac I will defiantly do some of there workshops.
 
ComputerTeacher said:
I signed up both of my kids. They've been to field trips to the Apple store where they have made movies with iMovie. They love it. I will stick around for the hour and a half; I teach video editing to high school students using Final Cut, so I don't really know iMovie; maybe I'll learn a few tips.
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Interesting. I learned Final Cut in high school... the class didn't help me a bit in college, but some of the things I learned in that class (like how to frame shots) come up in everyday life... not to mention it was easily the most fun class I had... ever? Yeah, my most fun college class so far was probably Algorithm's and Data Structures, and making movies is more fun than learning C++. So my film production class was the most fun one I ever had.
 
ArtOfWarfare said:
I'm still at least 12 years away from having kids that could do this, I imagine, but I'm curious anyways... Are there any parents on the forums that send their kids to these? Any thoughts on it... Impacts on the kid, impacts on you and your spouse?

Is it normal for parents to stick around or do they just drop off the kids, take off for 90 minutes, and return to pick them up?
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As another noted, parents do have to remain in the store during the camp. I have done this with my children in the past (in the NYC Upper West Side store) and the kids had an absolute BLAST making very cool films on the MacBooks that the store provided. The teachers were very cool and extremely helpful and kid-friendly. Moreover, my kids really learned some cool things about making and editing movies, all on a Mac and all by themselves. The bonus is that the Apple instructors gave my kids a burned disc of their creation so that they could enjoy their work at home, again and again!

Obviously, this is genius marketing by Apple, but it also serves its purpose to educate children about using their imaginations and creating very cool forms of art ... with a Mac, of course!

I highly recommend this camp to everyone with children: it's a really fun event that the kids - and parents - thoroughly enjoy.
 
and people still hate on apple. I would never see Google, Samsung or MS do anything like this. Go figure. People just listen to anything that is shoved down their throats while they are angry or confused then just go deeper into the hate.

Good on Apple. Free workshops helping people, making education easier, saving the environment. People who hate on Apple should go live on Mars.
 
ThunderSkunk said:
I this camp idea is a nice start, but I think Apple needs to leverage this into being at the forefront of decentralized film production & distribution.
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I disagree. Apple needs to keep doing what they are doing which is staying out of production, cell service, Internet service etc.

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live4mark said:
, but it also serves its purpose to educate children about using their imaginations and creating very cool forms of art ... with a Mac, of course!
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Given how some schools are cutting art and music classes, this could be all some kids get. Rather sad.
 
turtlez said:
and people still hate on apple. I would never see Google, Samsung or MS do anything like this. Go figure. People just listen to anything that is shoved down their throats while they are angry or confused then just go deeper into the hate.

Good on Apple. Free workshops helping people, making education easier, saving the environment. People who hate on Apple should go live on Mars.
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Are you really this innocent & have no idea the reasons behind this do you?
 
truelies said:
They don't have any prize for kids?
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It's not about winning a prize, which means that some kids end up being labeled losers. It's about teaching.

Hell I taught my step brothers how to use iMovie a couple of years ago and they used it to create a video of their science fair project. Way cooler than the posters most kids create. They able to show everything from the set up to a faux time lapse of the progress. They didn't win the fair but they did get extra credit for the effort. well that and they taught their whole science class how to use iMovie. The teacher could have taken them to an Apple Store (where they do 'field trips') but there wasn't a store in the area at the time.

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Giuly said:
In America, they have summer camps for everything: Rich kids, basketball camp, tennis camp, movie director camp, ... :rolleyes:
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1. If it keeps them out of trouble and they learn something that might be useful one day why not

2. this is hardly movie director camp. More like a very cruel editing brush over. Nothing about framing, 'come in later, leave early' etc that directors learn. The end result is likely a lot of playing with your barbie dolls and talking in silly voices or making a movie of your brothers having a race down the street etc
 
It's great to see Apple offering free programs for kids!

When I looked at the camps around here at FayettevilleSummerCamps.com, I didn't see any free computer class for kids, so Apple is really providing a valuable service. I wish there was an Apple store around here though.
 
I went to an Apple summer camp when I was 10, which was 31 years ago. They had us programming in basic on Apple II machines. I loved it, and can honestly say it changed my life. My parents weren't so happy to find I had learned to password protect all of our floppies, which actually were floppy in those days. A funny thing about those floppies was that if you used a hole punch to take a notch out in just the right place, you could instantly double their capacity for free.

My daughter has had her own Mac since she was two, simply because my wife and I wanted our machines back! When I had my Maya instructor over to the house for dinner, he noticed my daughter quite adeptly navigating all over her computer, keyboard shortcuts and all. He asked, "Is it normal for a two year old to be able to do that?"

Starting them out young gives them a great advantage!

Also, Vimeo isn't the only place to see great independent film. Take a look at http://www.filmskillet.com.
 
My son went with his grandfather to the Apple summer camp today. Horrible experience, and will not go back for the second day. Started half hour late (but ended on time, of course,) nobody knew what they were doing, no amenities, bathrooms, water, seating for the adults, etc. Kids all had a terrible time and many left early. Apparently all they did was hand them iPads and told them to use Garage Band to make a song. :mad:
 
I guess kids today find going to a camp where they sit in front of a screen fun. They are probably bragging to their friends about it.

I remember in the 90's when space camp was all the rage. I had friends in elementary who lied about going to space camp just to seem cool.lol.
 
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