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Our Programs
CYMC Digital Media Arts ProgramDOWNLOAD A CYMC YOUTH INTERN APPLICATION HERE Mission and PurposeCYMC is a San Francisco youth-based digital media arts studio dedicated to producing conscious, creative, and quality media sharing diverse and rarely heard youth perspectives and stories to audiences around the world. Conscious Youth Media Crew (CYMC) promotes life long learning and leadership among high risk, youth in San Francisco’s inner city communities. Through our unique youth training program in media arts and digital video, youth participants develop creative and educated voice around community issues, gain technology skills, and raise employability, while becoming involved in the community as media producers and young leaders. During CYMC’s fifteen week multimedia training program, youth interns produce short audio and video segments that tell stories about everyday life and raise awareness about youth issues, like teen relationship violence and the risks of joining a gang. Our media is screened on the web, broadcast television, on the radio, at film festivals, and in schools and communities. Digital Media Training SeriesAfter-School Internship ProgramOver CYMC’s fifteen week training session, youth interns produce a digital media portfolio about a topic of interest or current social or community issue. Each portfolio consists of a 2-3 min radio commentary, a photo essay, and a short 3-5 minute digital video. All media is distributed on tv, the web, radio and at school, community, and competitive film festivals. Trainings cover the four phases of production where interns learn story development, basic camera operations, basic light & sound techniques, Final Cut Pro advanced editing software, special effects and graphics, and screening and distribution of completed works. All trainings are led by CYMC Staff and specialized Guest Artists. All CYMC programs integrate special guests, experts and field visits in the film industry. We have hosted visits by Michael Rapaport and Robin Wright Penn, as well as worked with director Jake Scott. School-based Partnership with Downtown High School, SFUSDCYMC is the Community Partner for Downtown High School’s Hollywood Project, a project-based curriculum integrating screenwriting and multimedia arts and technology to teach and fulfill academic standards. Each semester our partnership produces four 5-10 minute short films each with full publicity kits produced and designed by our student participants. Selected DHS monologues are also produced into digital stories, including a photo slideshow with accompanying audio segment. Production and technology trainings take place at CYMC’s community based computer lab/studio where students learn camera production, lights, sound, basic graphic design, editing, and publishing software. Story development, screenwriting intensives and performing arts activities take place at the school site with Teaching Artists and classroom teachers as students rotate between our sites. All student participants earn academic credit towards graduation through the completion of project requirements through the partnership. We produce…*Narrative Documentary: Young filmmakers focus on personal narrative while sharpening storytelling skills and techniques used by the documentary format. *Dramatic Film: Downtown High School writing workshops focus on script and screenplay development for a short feature film production. Selected scripts are produced into short films by production teams trained and supervised by CYMC and DHS Teacher Partners. *Street News: News segments geared towards youth issues and current events are produced for and by young people in collaboration with YO!TV for bi-monthly broadcast on WB20 in the Bay Area and online at www.youthoutlook.org. Career and College PathwaysIn order to cultivate continued learning and job experience opportunities, CYMC offers: *university tours to campus departments specializing in film and video production (San Francisco State University, UCLA, USC, CalArts, NYU Film School) *college counseling and career development skills like resume writing and job searches *free lance job referral network: young filmmakers are referred out to paid job placements to crew in video and film production teams through contract work, local productions and community collaborations. *internship placements for eligible youth participants in professional environments in the film industry and related multimedia fields CYMC Internship Placements have included: |
