Apple Retail Announces 2013 Summer Filmmaking Camps for Kids

[DaveNinja]

Wow. I signed up to get the notification from apple when it was available. I didn't get an email. I learned about it on macrumors. 9 of 12 sessions were full this morning when I signed up.

It isn't the most sophisticated of filmmaking workshops, but it gets the kids out of the house and doing something fun. If nothing else, last year the kids got a t-shirt and a flash drive bracelet.

They expect you do do all your filming at home on your idevice (or other camera). In the store it is just planning, and editing.

I actually thought day 3 - watching the "films" was the most painful. 10 minutes of some other person's kid jumping on a trampoline, or 5 minutes of some other kid's dog wandering around the house. Total disregard for the 2 minute long max.

thats good the filming is at home. I was worried they'd have to film in the store or mall to get footage to edit.

 

[eXan]

That is a very good banner picture

 

[that1guyy]

Why don't they do something like this for college students?

 

[Apple fanboy]

Just signed up for my to be notified for my 11 year old in the UK. Lets hope it actually happens over here.

Has anybody in the UK done one before?

 

[duskyyouth]

I'm curious, duskyyouth, in which store did you have this bad experience?

It was in New Jersey. The Sagemore store in Marlton, NJ to be exact. I was really disappointed with their lack of knowledge on the products they were supposed to be teaching the kids with.

 

[Jedi5]

I read about this over on Slickdeals and signed my kids up.
Sounds interesting. Hope it is fun for them.

For those of you that have attended or know more, how strict are they
on the age requirements? My son is 8 so he'll be good but my daughter is 7.
Will they still allow her to participate?

Thanks!

 

[Val-kyrie]

Thanks for the Heads Up

I just signed up my daughter in one of the last three available sessions. She loves the arts so this should be fun.

 

[coolspot18]

Seems a bit of a hassle to drive to a store for only a 1.5 hour session. Apple perhaps should have condensed it into a single day affair.

 

[macs4nw]

A great idea! I read once somewhere, how Steven Spielberg got started. He reportedly got an old 8mm Bell&Howell film camera as a gift, and started making 'movies' with his friends. If he'd never had that opportunity at that early age, who's to say where he would have been now. Ditto for some of today's greatest tennis players, who received a tennis racket as a young child, perhaps as a Christmas or birthday gift.

If I had young kids, a no brainer. Expose them to as much as you can afford, money and time-wise, and some of it may stick, and become a life-long hobby, or even a profession.

 

[sigamy]

My kids attended this for two years in a row. It is very difficult to get a spot, you have to register almost immediately.

Being that it is a free offering it's hard to complain but...these sessions were much better before the iPhone and Apple's huge popularity growth. Before the iPhone most Apple Stores had dedicated "theater" or classroom space. Now, these classes are held at one small table in either the one-on-one area or just on normal iMacs that are on display for sale. The stores are very crowded, it's hard to hear/ and it's difficult to get the Apple rep's time/attention.

That being said, if you kids are into creative stuff and playing with cameras it is a good experience. You leave the session with a DVD of your final movie which makes for good memories.

 

[MonkeySee....]

Thank you for posting this.

This UK father, for one, has just registered to be notified, since my 11-year old girl and 8-year old boy would love this.

And, yes, I have to drive an hour to my local Apple store (UK - Bluewater) - just hope they choose to run it at that venue

I think they will. Its a great store. Thats where I got my iMac.

I live closer to the Brighton Store but enjoy going to Bluewater.

 

[Zippyrmid]

good for kids !!!

 

[Pompiliu]

NO matter what you do, Stock is still going lower

Get some interesting news like Steve Jobs is coming back................................ by 3D printing

So funny! ))

 

[imamully]

Apple Camp was pretty cool

My son finished his last day of camp today, it was the apple film festival. He's 10 and has really enjoyed learning about garageband and imovie. The camp itself was really pretty good, my sons classes had 10 kids with 3 apple employees. The kids were playing on Apple latest set of toys, huge screen Imacs and Mac Mini's with wonderful displays. Most of the kids brought there Ipod's or Ipads to record on. They spent a day on GarageBand and a day on Imovie, then today we got to watch what they created. Some talented kids I must say. Amazing how naturally they all took to the products/software and computers. All en all totally worth it, plus he really likes the T-shirt they gave him and the cool sew on Apple Camp patches.