This academy will give students an opportunity to produce and film their own short film using professional techniques and principles. Los Angeles serves as one of the media capitals of the world serving as a home to numerous institutions like NBC, Warner Bros. Entertainment and the Walt Disney Company. Learn the analytical skills and develop critical vocabulary for study of filmmaking as technical, artistic, and cultural phenomenon. Students will explore preproduction concepts such as pitching and selling ideas, script breakdown, storytelling, casting and, budgeting. Students will then get to make their own short movie learning about digital cinematography to get shape their visual storytelling process through exploring concepts in formatting, ratios, lighting, sound, composition and multiple camera shooting. At the end of this course, students will have the ability to watch the movies they create.