Let’s Save the Galaxy by Finn and Nate
The Adventures of the Wolf and the Lemur by Emilie, Kaia, and Kora
The Misadventuring Soda by Sophie and Alea
The Search For The Big Apple by Sarah and Eleanor
Totoro and The Missing Cat by Freya and Livia
Karen, a Digistars Make-a-Movie Workshop instructor, works with elementary school students on their Claymation movie.
It’s hard to believe the school year is almost over and we’re planning our final vacation day camp. We hope the year hasn’t flown by without your child getting a taste of moviemaking either in our studio or an one of our after-school programs!
There is still time to register for Monday’s program at our studio location in central Denver, and of course there are many summer camps still open, too!
Campers build elaborate sets on which to stage their movies and model characters out of clay.
Our weeklong summer camps run Monday through Friday from 9am-3pm, with extended care options available from 8am-6pm. Camps run through June, July, and August.
If you love talking about movies, watching movies, and learning how movies are made, this is the camp for you! Digital storytelling is all about the stories. We balance the screen time with plenty of outside play as we eat lunch and spend our breaks at a nearby playground.
Once inside, however, our focus is on creating our stories and bringing them to life.
Campers split into production groups (yes, 
you can work with your friends!) and map out their stories on storyboards. Then they build sets, mold characters, and commence filming their masterpieces!
A Digistars camp is a hands-on integration of art with technology that offers real skills for succeeding in school and beyond.
Summer camp sessions are filling quickly – one session has already sold out! – so be sure to register your Digistar today!
A Weird Day on the Titanic by Sara and J.P.
Bibity Bobity Bieber by Esme and Maddie
These films were completed in a single day at the Digistars studio by students in grades 1 through 7.
The Adventure
The Chicken Fight
The Grocery Store
The Monkey and the Cat
The Road Trip
The Bite
These stop action motion animated films were completed in a single day at the Digistars studio!
Balloon Trouble by Maxwell and Gavin
Fatso by Max and Reed
Ghosts and R2D2 by Zane, Liam and Charlie
Spot by Cami
This group of elementary school students envisioned, wrote and filmed this movie in a single day during a Digistars vacation day camp using the giant green screen in the Digistars studio.
The Epic Train Robberies by Lilia, Eli, Elliott, Henry, Willa, and Victoria
Bubble Gun Battle by Eli and Willa
Bunny vs Fox by Victoria and Abby
Digistars Make-a-Movie Workshop Vacation Day camps allow kids in grades 1-8 to envision and create a complete movie in a single day! They work through the production process by imagining a story and mapping it out to be filmed in storyboards. Then they build sets and mold clay figures before shooting and editing their film. It’s inspiring to watch the kids get so involved in their projects while learning concrete skills without realizing it!
Plane Go Boom by Willa and Eli
The Siri Accident by Abby and Lilia
Now that the presents are all unwrapped and the excitement of Christmas is over, there’s still a week or so of winter break ahead for fun and memories. Vacation day camps at our studio near City Park are the perfect solution for antsy kids to have a magical day making movies!
In our most popular programs, campers build sets and use clay to create a stop motion animated story. Camps are running Monday and Tuesday, December 28th and 29th, and January 5th and 5th.
Want to do more acting on-camera? On December 30th we are offering a special one-day Live Action camp where we will be using the giant “green screen” and our stocked costume trunk to place your stories anywhere!
Registration is open until 9 am the day of camp, and all camps run in a single day from 9 am through 5 pm. Sign up soon and tell your friends!
The Adventures of Lava Pup, Godzilla and the Evil Pecman by Remi, Ben and Jake
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Register for Winter Vacation Day Camps!  Zohar works on her claymation film titled “The Show” during a vacation day camp last week. After the great success of our first set of Vacation Day camps at our new studio over Thanksgiving break, we couldn’t be more excited about our upcoming slate of daylong camps planned for the December break! Each of our daylong camps in Claymation and Live Action Filmmaking takes students through the entire filmmaking process from envisioning a story to creating characters, designing sets, acting, filming, and editing it all together. Check out some of the great films we made last week at camp here and here. We have programs for first through eighth graders and fun for all. Sign up soon as spaces are limited! Student Films Posted We have many new student films posted from the fall terms at McAuliffe, Steele, Polaris@Ebert, and Isabella Bird. If you need a reminder of how to download your student’s film, see our About page for instructions. New Studio Location If you’re trying to find our new studio, don’t follow your GPS to our street address of 2040 East 28th Avenue as it may send you too far east. Try entering “28th Avenue and Race Street” for better luck finding our west City Park location. Share the Experience We hope you will share your child’s movies and their experience with your friends and online networks and spread the word about our camps and programs! Click on the YouTube icon on any video to go to the direct link. See you at the movies! |
These films were all started and completed in a single day!
Candy Cloud Chaos by Lilia and Sasha
Cat’s Revenge by Greta and Mia
Revenge by Jack
The Show by Zohar
The Wild Turkey Chase by Alona and Luna
These films were all completed during a single day of camp at the Digistars Make-a-Movie Workshop studio.
The Birthday Present by Mia and Zohar
The Purple Cube by Andrew and Torin
The Ball, Hill, and Pond – Oh My! by Zane and Lani
The UFO by Jack and Alona