Hello from Summer Media Arts Camp!

Jul 14

This July, Venice Arts students have been busy honing their new creative skills while exploring the world around them. From taking photos around Venice, to experimenting with light and color on film, to creating comics about child prodigies, workshops have been packed with fun and learning!

Check out the galleries below to see all that they’ve been up to! Hover over each image to read more about their process.

Session One

Say cheese! Photography students take shots at the Venice Canals.

Getting the right angles to photograph using natural light.

After working together to create a script and a shot list, filmmaking students set up a scene with the help of Teaching Artist Jacinto and Teaching Assistant Isa.

Students wrote haikus and stories to go along with their favorite photographs from their field shoot in the neighborhood.

Venice Arts Alumni, Silvia, stopped by to teach beginning photography students how to use a Hasselblad film camera.

Students experimented with crushed-up flowers, berries, and leaves to create emulsions to then use in printing their photos on transparencies.

Mentor Ken helps students experiment photographing light and color using mirrors and gels.

Teaching Assistant Kayla manages the class cameras!

Photography students learned how to use a Mamiyaflex camera.

Teaching Artist Jennifer sets the shot using a pink gel.

Mentor Ken reviews images during the shoot.

Experimenting with sources and distortions of light.

Field trip around Venice!

Alumni Silvia assists in setting up the film camera.

Photographing nature in the city.

SESSION TWO

Teaching Assistant Isa helps a filmmaking student set up a shot.

Photography students work together during a team-building exercise. Can you move the cup using only rubber bands?

A comics student puts the finishing touches on a drawing using software on an iPad.

Filmmaking students document different experiments from start to finish, including trying to make s'mores using only a pizza box and aluminum foil!

A comics students digitally colors their comic.

Photography students participate in a team-building exercise based on the game “Minesweeper.”

Filmmaking students learn about filming from different types of angles (high/low angle, wide shot, and handheld vs. tripod) by shooting the same popsicle stick “explosion.” They chose the best shots later, in the editing process.