2016
Basic Reel Camp
Two-Week Camp
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
June 19-30, 2017
Girls learn storytelling, storyboarding, scriptwriting, use of professional camera, lighting, audio, and editing. Working in small production teams with a mentor, they produce a short video, and so learn the skills to create their own media.
Photos by
Valerie Narte
Malia Derden
THE FILMS
PRETTY GOOD START
Steel Ladies Productions
Erin is your typical pass/fail teenage girl but unlike her peers, she understands the toll a mental illness like depression takes on one's academic and personal life. Things begin to change for Erin when she finally responds to a false claim Jennifer, one of her closest friends makes about depression.
SOLA
Bloody Nuns Productions
Our story is about a girl who tries to make her best friend feel better because of a bad break up. The main character Sola is dragged by her best friend, Lola to break into an abandon school. They wander around the school and have fun, until one of them disappears. The friend is never gonna be seen ever again. Until we look at the security footage.
PHOTO
JOURNAL
Day
1
June 19, 2017
Introductions
Storyboarding exercise
Story structure
Character arc
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Day
2
June 20, 2017
Q&A with filmmaker participant Zoe
Location scouting at Sacred Hearts Academy
Story development in teams
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Day
3
June 21, 2017
Camera lesson
Sound & Audio lesson
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Day
4
June 22, 2017
Pre-production and story development
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Day
5
June 23, 2017
Storyboarding presentations
Lighting lesson
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Day
6
June 24, 2017
Production begins at Sacred Hearts Academy!
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Day
7
June 27, 2017
Production continues!
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Day
10
June 28, 2017
Productions wrapped
ʻOhana screening with Stop Motion Camp
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