The 45 Cameras Project - Week 1 For

I had a guest over yesterday, Dr. Lem Schaffer, and we came up with a little project. What would you think of something like this?

An American Immersion into Film, Friendship and International Understanding between future Israeli, Palestinian, and American Teenage Film Makers

Imagine mixing three teens from different cultures, handing them video cameras, laptops and editing software, giving them a crash course in television production, then hopping in a bus to tour the USA, filming and learning as you go. Here’s the set up:

* 15 Palestinian 16-year-olds (from the Bethlehem “Bright Stars” program)
* 15 Israeli 16-year-olds (from heaven knows where)
* 15 USA Kids (from the Faith Inkubators network)
* 45 donated video cameras * 45 donated laptop computers with video/audio editing software
* 45 days on a bus together crossing America, starting in Hollywood and ending at the Statue of Liberty

Week 1:

California Orientation, Film Production Crash Course & Hollywood Immersion Experience

We begin our experiment of film, fun & bonding with a three-day crash course in video editing and production in mountains and beaches of California.

Youth are tripled up - one from each culture - and each team is given the assignment of producing a short video suitable for streaming on the internet by Saturday night. Then it is on to Hollywood  for two days of tours and shooting at NBC, CBS, ABC, Univision, Disneyland/Universal Theme Parks, and UCLA/USC Film Schools.  A dinner with Casey Kasem (Lebanese American Radio personality), interviews on the streets with reformed gang members, and a viewing of Stephen Speilberg’s “Children of Berlin” and discussion fill the nights.  Then it’s “hit the road” for the Rocky Mountains, with stops at the Grand Canyon and the Indian cave dwellings of Mesa Verde on the way. Each triad writes, shoots, and edits their first short video documentary and hands it in before they board the bus. Videos are watched and critiqued along the way.

Saturday Stream Show 1 - 15 shorts

    More Tomorrow.

Comments

[Rebecca]

I know a boy who I think needs an experience like that His life's vocation he believes is in the film industry but what a powerful way for him to connect the world, his homeland, his dreams and most importantly to me his own faith journey. Is this for real?