Seoul Hosts International Movie Camp For Students
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The Korean movie industry is at its finest moment with the country's movies, directors, actors and actresses receiving acclamations from a series of world renowned film festivals.
And during the month of July, students between the ages of 13 to 18 from diverse countries like the United States, Ireland, Denmark and Italy were in Korea for a week-long movie camp.
[Reporter : Hwang Sung-hee ssung86@arirang.co.kr] "Some 40 students from around the world are in Korea to learn about the country's movie industry. Here, for the next six days, they will be working with Korean students to make a movie of their own".
Directing acting shooting most of the participants at the camp dream of being in the movie industry some day.
[Interview : Clarissa Holmes, Participant from USA] "I hope it's a start for my career, because I do like to act. I think it's going to be fun".
During the week, the students also received a couple of inspirational speeches from those already working in the movie industry.
One of the speakers was Director Chung Yoon-chul who was invited to introduce the basics in movie making to the students based on his own experiences in the field.
Sharing the secret of good story-telling and screening his directorial debut Memorial Photography the director encouraged the students to be enthusiastic in the pursuit of their dreams.
[Interview : Justine Stafford, Participant from Ireland] "To get his advice, someone who has directing as a career, it's top-class, it's something that you can't really get anywhere else".
And after receiving instructions on how to make movies the students divided into ten groups were given one day to shoot a five-minute movie per group.
The students were given three themes to choose from paradise, wings or meeting and the writing, directing, shooting and acting all the work was done by the students themselves.
And a few hours was just enough to make them realize that there are some similarities in movie-making even among different cultures.
[Interview : Simon Sundgaard, Participant from Denmark] "It's funny because the story-telling in Denmark and South Korea is very different but the routine of making a film, like "ready, go" callings and stuff like that, it's the same in Denmark and in South Korea".
On the last day of the camp the students held screenings for their movies.
One movie told the story of a couple obsessed about getting wings and another told the story of a mysterious hotel in which all its visitors end up dead.
[Interview : Josh Bymum, Participant from USA] "It felt good knowing that all our hard work paid off. I think it has been very nice. I had a great time and I learned a lot of new things.
And for these passionate students their experience at this summer camp will hopefully become a fundamental stepping stone in the pursuit of their dreams.
Hwang Sung-hee, Arirang News.
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And during the month of July, students between the ages of 13 to 18 from diverse countries like the United States, Ireland, Denmark and Italy were in Korea for a week-long movie camp.
[Reporter : Hwang Sung-hee ssung86@arirang.co.kr] "Some 40 students from around the world are in Korea to learn about the country's movie industry. Here, for the next six days, they will be working with Korean students to make a movie of their own".
Directing acting shooting most of the participants at the camp dream of being in the movie industry some day.
[Interview : Clarissa Holmes, Participant from USA] "I hope it's a start for my career, because I do like to act. I think it's going to be fun".
During the week, the students also received a couple of inspirational speeches from those already working in the movie industry.
One of the speakers was Director Chung Yoon-chul who was invited to introduce the basics in movie making to the students based on his own experiences in the field.
Sharing the secret of good story-telling and screening his directorial debut Memorial Photography the director encouraged the students to be enthusiastic in the pursuit of their dreams.
[Interview : Justine Stafford, Participant from Ireland] "To get his advice, someone who has directing as a career, it's top-class, it's something that you can't really get anywhere else".
And after receiving instructions on how to make movies the students divided into ten groups were given one day to shoot a five-minute movie per group.
The students were given three themes to choose from paradise, wings or meeting and the writing, directing, shooting and acting all the work was done by the students themselves.
And a few hours was just enough to make them realize that there are some similarities in movie-making even among different cultures.
[Interview : Simon Sundgaard, Participant from Denmark] "It's funny because the story-telling in Denmark and South Korea is very different but the routine of making a film, like "ready, go" callings and stuff like that, it's the same in Denmark and in South Korea".
On the last day of the camp the students held screenings for their movies.
One movie told the story of a couple obsessed about getting wings and another told the story of a mysterious hotel in which all its visitors end up dead.
[Interview : Josh Bymum, Participant from USA] "It felt good knowing that all our hard work paid off. I think it has been very nice. I had a great time and I learned a lot of new things.
And for these passionate students their experience at this summer camp will hopefully become a fundamental stepping stone in the pursuit of their dreams.
Hwang Sung-hee, Arirang News.
Video by following the link below
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