Who says camp ends when mom picks you up?

Can you believe there are just three more weeks before the kids go back to school?! At least here in Florida.

I tried to go the extra mile to match the kids needs to a good camp. My daughter is at her old school, where she can be with friends - and she loves it. I had my son Iden enrolled in three different performance camps and Karate - and he loved it!


But Aren, that was another story. He loves science, so I put him in Aerospace camp, Super Science camp and Rocket Camp. He went to a writing camp and Karate too.

But nothing clicked like this week at the Florida Film Academy camp.

This specialized camp is on the other side of Orlando in Windermere and worth every minute of the drive.

At the start of camp the kids were broken into groups based on common interests. They are shown some techniques in Final Cut Pro film editor and the Celtx scripting tool. They talk through some story ideas. By the afternoon the cameras come out.

And kids pick this stuff up quick.

By the end of the week Aren will have co-written three scripts, acted in three movies, filmed and directed one movie and co-edited two movies.

You'd think that would be enough, but as soon as he gets home he wants to work on other films. The following was filmed after camp at home with the iPad2 and edited in iMovie. I only helped by showing him how to use iStockPhoto.com for stock audio.