Operation Filmmaker Goes Science
A camper edits a film.
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What:
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Operation Filmmaker Goes Science Summer Camp
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When:
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June 8–26, 2009
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Who:
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Middle and high school students
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Where:
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The Mag Lab and
Tallahassee Community College
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Cost:
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$500
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How:
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See details below!
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Operation Filmmaker Goes Science is a three-week summer camp that brings together art and science. The goal is to teach students how to process and communicate information while learning the creative and technical skills of making a documentary film. The camp will take place June 8–26, 2009.
The camp is a collaboration between the Mag Lab's Center for Integrating Research & Learning and the Character & Heritage Institute. It is open to middle and high school students and was developed in close collaboration with research scientists and educators as well as media producers and consultants.
Advancing through three stages of production necessary to produce a film, students receive instruction on the theory and the equipment involved in filmmaking. All students participate, start to finish, in making a 10-minute documentary on a science-related topic.
The camp culminates with a Premiere Party and Gala Night. This will be the first showing of the finished films and their associated movie posters. Ultimately, Operation Filmmaker Goes Science helps students become intelligent consumers of information so that they become educated on the needs vital to preserve our society.
Student films from prior years include:
- Time and Time Again
Let's go back, to the future, and take a look at time travel. Can we actually travel through time? We'll make a scientific investigation of time travel and the possibility that it may exist.
- Helium: The Other Gas
This film takes a look at this element, its uses and why we should be concerned with its dwindling supply.
- The Truth About Trash
With so many disposable items on the market, where is all the trash going? Before we ruin the planet, we'll take an inside journey to find out about our trash and how it's affecting the planet we live on.
- Nikola Tesla
The man who invented the twentieth century was not Thomas Edison. But Tesla's contributions and successes are largely forgotten. We let his inventions speak and discover the real Nikola Tesla.
For more information or to register, visit the Character & Heritage Institute.
