| Jeremy Jackson, a student at the Los Angeles County | | | | Report- A movie about the powers of good vs. evil. |
| High School for the Arts, enrolled in a Digital Video | | | | Jeremy and his classmates used an effect which |
| Production summer course at iD Tech Camps UCLA | | | | caused three fleeing men to freeze in mid-air, before |
| location. At this weeklong, hands-on technology | | | | resuming running. |
| summer program for ages 7-17 located at universities | | | | During camp, Jeremy's movie premiered at Family |
| nationwide, Jeremy developed an understanding for | | | | Showcase. "Everyone watching the movie was very |
| shooting, editing, and creating special effects using | | | | impressed by the quality of the special effects my |
| Adobe software. | | | | son's group was able to create in just one week," said |
| Jeremy's father, an animator for Disney, inspired his | | | | Jeremy's mom, Meredith Jackson. "The movie was a |
| son at a young age with a passion for filmmaking and | | | | hit and I think we've watched it 100 times since then!" |
| CGI (Computer Generated Imagery). Since perfecting | | | | Students like Jeremy use digitized footage in Adobe |
| his skills at camp, Jeremy attends Hollywood movie | | | | After Effects to add special effects like chroma key. |
| premieres as the cinematographer for 16 year-old Fred | | | | They composited multiple layers of video to give the |
| Medill, the host of "Fred TV." A series with informative | | | | footage different effects. The software is so |
| interviews of celebrities in motion pictures and | | | | user-friendly that even a teenage camper like Jeremy |
| television, and star athletes, "Fred TV" has taken | | | | can easily add impressive lasers and fire using plug-ins. |
| Hollywood by storm. Jeremy can be seen at many | | | | "It's exciting teaching campers how to composite |
| Hollywood premieres behind the camera as Fred | | | | layers within their digital movie," said Jeremy's instructor, |
| interviews celebrities. | | | | Kevin Painchaud, owner of a Hollywood-based |
| While having used Adobe(R) software for school | | | | production company whose movie "NTV-1" had a |
| projects, Jeremy never used Adobe Photoshop(R) | | | | sellout crowd for their screening at the Hollywood Film |
| and Adobe After Effects(R) to create special effects | | | | Festival. "Jeremy's passion for filmmaking poured out |
| for a movie until attending iD Tech Camps. Along with | | | | of him each day, inside and outside of the classroom. |
| classmates, Jeremy created high-end special effects | | | | He just really wanted to learn everything there was to |
| and learned advanced compositing and | | | | know about filmmaking and caught on very quickly," |
| cinematography. Many of the effects that they | | | | said Mr. Painchaud. It looks like the next Steven |
| created have been used in popular Hollywood movies. | | | | Spielberg may have just gotten his start! |
| While a completely new program for Jeremy, After | | | | As for now, Jeremy continues to accompany Fred to |
| Effects quickly became a favorite. | | | | Hollywood premieres, getting experience shooting the |
| "You can do everything with After Effects, from | | | | stars. Someday he hopes to be a Cinematographer |
| making it rain to making a guy freeze in mid-air," said | | | | for motion pictures, just like his mentor from camp, Mr. |
| Jeremy while describing his camp movie The Majority | | | | Painchaud. |