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200  Youth Theatre Summer Teen Session (Age 12-18) (0)
   Youth Theatre's intensive summer program for talented young actors provides opportunities for character development on and off the stage. All students receive well-rounded training in acting, voice, and movement as well as the opportunity to choose two specialty elective classes that focus on specific performance and/or technical theatre skills. Students will have the opportunity to share skills learned in their elective classes with family, friends and fellow students in an 'Open Sharing Day' to be held in the Babcock Theatre. Students also take part in a performance company which will produce a 45- 60-minute show presented to family and friends at the end of the session. All students will receive a videotape of their performance. T-shirts are included in the program cost and must be worn daily.

203  Filmmaking: The Art of Visual Storytelling (Age 7-12) (0)
   Roll camera and action! Do you think you have what it takes to make it on the big screen? Experience every step of the movie making process from story development in pre-production to post-production using digital editing equipment. Discover life in front of and behind the camera through acting and directing. The comprehensive process of filmmaking will be exposed, offering you new technical, communication, organizational, and computer skills. With a new critical eye, young film makers will combine visual images with sound bytes and musical soundtracks to produce a short film to be enjoyed on the living room VCR or to be submitted to a local or national children's film festival.

205  My Play-Doh Lives:Claymation (Age 7-12) (0)
   Bring your imagination and your clay to life in this introduction to animation class. Write, produce, and direct a short claymation piece involving your own hand-built clay figures and set designs. Throughout this exciting process, you will learn to storyboard ideas, film creations, and edit footage, finally bringing life to your inanimate sculptures. Learn to synchronize your clay creations to music and sound effects on the computer. The end product will be a complete claymation piece that will wow friends and family. Your old cans of Play-Doh will never look the same!

207  Video & Claymation Workshop (Age 9-12) (0)
   Experience a unique opportunity to explore the word of animation and film making. Throughout the morning film making process, discover life in front of and behind the camera through acting and directing. Learn new organizational, communication, technical, and computer skills. Develop a new 'critical eye' by combining visual images with sound effects and music. Experience every step of the afternoon claymation process using your own hand-built clay figures and backdrops. Become your own writer, producer, director, and set coordinator. Learn to storyboard ideas, mold clay characters, build set designs, and film your creation. Both projects will culminate in finished pieces that will be screened at Spy Hop and copied to VHS or DVD to be enjoyed at home or even submitted to local or national children's film festivals. Watch out Sundance!

208  Filmmaking Intensive Workshop (Age 10-15) (0)
   Calling all aspiring actors, directors, cinematographers, and composers. Come spend an intensive week at the Spy Hop Studio pursuing your cinematic dream. Choose one of three tracks (drama, sound engineering, and production) as you work on a preselected screenplay. The production team will focus on preparing for the shoot: cinematography, directing, location-scouting, and lighting. The sound engineering team will compose an original score and produce sound effects, and the drama team will focus on acting, prop acquisition, wardrobes, and make-up. Following the completion of the shoot, all three teams will once again converge for the post-production stage to digitally edit their creation. The finished product will be a short five-ten minute film for output to DVD or VHS tape. Look out Sundance!

209  Acting and Filmmaking (Age 9-15) (0)
   Come learn both sides of the lens in this course that will engage participants in both acting and filmmaking. Most directors will tell you that learning how to act is an essential trait of being a good director. Good actors also know how the camera captures their actions, so learning directing and cinematography will help improve on-camera acting skills. This workshop will provide both aspiring actors and directors the opportunity to explore these facets of filmmaking while shooting their own short film. Participants will also learn basics of lighting, editing, and sound effects.

210  Playwriting Workshop (0)
   Bring your words to life by writing a play! This workshop will take you thorugh the steps of developing characters, diving a story into scenes, and writing dialogue. The final product will be a ten-minute play, or a ten-minute excerpt from a longer play. At the end of the course, we will assemble actors for a staged reading for you, your family, and friends.

308  Engineer Your Own Band (Age 14-18) (0)
   Are you in a band (or not)? Do you want to learn to engineer? Learn the behind- the-scenes mixing and mastering like the pros. Spy Hop experts show you how to engineer a band (maybe your own). No experience necessary (no band necessary either).

314  Produce Your Own Music Video (Age 11-15) (0)
   Bust your own dance moves as you learn to direct your own music video. Spy Hop introduces a new music video workshop that will allow you to create visual montages and stories synced to your favorite tunes. From choreography to camera technique, music videos will be analyzed, explored and created. MTV will never look the same.

315  3D Animation (Age 13-16) (0)
   Learn beginning animation skills using 3D Studio Max. This course is intended to be an introduction to the fast growing field of 3D animation. Learn what it takes to complete an animation in 3D from beginning to end. Create storyboards for your projects using animation software to construct, texture, light, and animate the scene. When the animation is complete, the project will be recorded onto a CD that you can add to your portfolio. Topics covered will include modeling from primitives (transformations and modifiers), the basics of color and theory and compositional theory, bitmap versus procedural mapping, lighting, and animation (forward and inverse kinetics).

316  Screenwriting (Age 13-16) (0)
   Calling all budding writers! Have you thought about writing for movies, stage or even television? Learn the art of screenwriting through visual image and dialogue. Discover what makes a good 'pitch'. Critique film clips and complete the course with a working first draft for a short film.

317  Introduction to Documentary Filmaking (Age 13-16) (0)
   Truth is stranger than fiction. Turn your idea into a film, and make yourself heard! Learn the steps of writing, directing, and producing a short documentary through a hands-on project that you develop, film, and edit. Documentaries can be informative, entertaining, funny, and vocal. Discover how to make your film effective under the direction of experienced filmakers.

320  Playwriting (0)
   Bring your words to life by writing a play! This workshop will take you through the steps of developing characters, dividing a story into scenes, and writing dialogue. The final product will be a ten-minute play or a ten-minute excerpt from a longer play. At the end of the course, we will assemble actors for a staged reading for you, your family and friends.