NYU Tisch Online High School Filmmakers Workshop Recently Updated

The Online High School Filmmakers Workshop with NYUTisch School of the Arts is for high school freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Students will learn documentary, narrative, and experimental approaches to filmmaking as they develop their writing, directing, shooting, and editing skills. The workshop includes asynchronous pre-recorded modules and live one-on-one video meetings with the instructor. The workshop is offered in the fall for six weeks and the summer for four weeks. 

The workshop introduces students to the theory and techniques of developing and producing short films that are shot and edited digitally. Working in online crews, students will produce music videos and short films. Special emphasis is placed on storytelling through visual language. Students learn the basics of screenwriting through writing exercises, reading assignments, viewing online media examples, as well as the script development and research of their short films. Through streaming lectures and video meetings this online workshop will highlight the fundamentals of story structure, character development, communication of thematic statements, and visual storytelling, among other topics. Students earn four college credits.