Whether you see yourself pursuing a career in film-making or want to learn the practical skills for yourself,New York Film Academy's film camps are perfect for everyone with an interest in making films. The film camps are designed for people with little or no experience in making films.

Here are some classes and subjects in the camps.

Director's craft

As the director is the leader of a film set, students will learn the language and practice of film-making so that they can apply this knowledge to their own original films.They will discuss shooting plans for their film projects and screen their work with their instructor throughout the course.Each student directs a series of films in groups of four.Groups are required to meet each week with the directing instructor to review scripts and shooting plans.

Writing

It's the script that is the backbone of any film. In the camps,students will become comfortable writing original screenplays. Students learn the process of taking a story from an initial idea to a finished script for their final film.

Hands-on digital camera

Students will learn to shoot using cameras. They will learn proper loading, operation,and maintenance of the camera. In the first week, students will learn shoot, screen tests for focus, slow/fast motion, and so on. Students needing extra instruction are given review sessions if necessary.

Digital editing

Editing process gives actual structures. Students will learn to edit their films with digital editing software.Their instructors will cover both the technical aspects of the editing process, as well as the conventions and theory behind editing choices and styles.

Working with actors

To direct actors,one must learn how to work with actors and receive instruction and experience in how to get effective performances from actors. Students also get the chance to gain some experience as actors.

Each summer film camp for teens at the Film Academy will challenge you to become a／well-rounded film-maker with actual experience making films. Click here to apply today.

A ten-year-old New Yorker who was bullied (欺辱) at school is likely making her bullies jealous these days-because how many of them can say they’ve shown a collection of clothing at New York Fashion Week?

Egypt Ufele, who goes by the name Ify, didn’t let those fifth-grade bullies at her Queens school keep her down, and instead took the very thing they made fun of her for and used it to make a name for herself in the fashion world.

“I turned negative attention into positive attention,” she said, shortly after showing her collection at Fashion Week. Ify said that some of the other kids would give her a hard time for her weight. Instead of changing herself because of, their unkind words, though, she took the word “chubby” back — creating her own plus-size fashion line that she calls ChubiiLine.

“People tell me I’m good at fashion,” Ify said. “Sometimes I give my models ideas, and then we agree on it, and I end up making it.”

Ify’s been doing the work all along and, according to her grandma Nellie Rembert, takes the process very seriously. First, the fifth grader started sewing clothes for her toys by hand. Then, she graduated to grandma’s sewing machine, designing clothes for kids.

“She comes out of school, goes straight into homework, and when other kids are out playing she’s either sewing clothes or she’s creating new ideas,” her mom, Dr. Reba Perry,said.

The results — an African-inspired collection — have earned her attention from anti-bullying groups and fashion lovers. Though other children have shown collections at Fashion Week in the past, Ify is the only one to have dressed plus-size women.

She even helped them get ready backstage, tying them up and making sure they were styled perfectly. “Being a designer and being at fashion shows are really exciting because you get a lot of attention, and a lot of people ask you what inspires you,” she said.

Maurice Druon of the French Academy once proposed that French should be made the principal legal language of the European Union (EU). He argued that its logic and precision made it the excellent judicial language. Others laughed. How very French of him!

The French are hardly alone in believing that their language is especially poetic,emotional. logical,precise,accessible or rich.But it turns out that the things people prize in their own languages can often be the same things foreign learners hate.Take the formal-informal distinction in words for "you". German and French have du and tu for friends and family,and sie and vous for unknown adults and formal speech. Natives of those languages miss that distinction when speaking English. Those whose languages (like English) don't make it in the first place often resent having this choice forced on them in French or German.

Linguists(语言学家）believe that languages differ not in what they can express,but in what they must. Given the time and willingness to explain or invent basic terms,any language could be used to talk about anything. But they vary wildly in what they insist speakers say,with the tu-yous distinction being just the tip of the iceberg Washo,a native language of Nevada,has four past and three future tenses,depending on how distant an event is in time.Tariana,from Brazil,has “evidentiality”：speakers choose one of five verb-endings to show how they know what they state to be true.     Jarawara, also from Brazil, distinguishes “we (including you)"and“we (without you)".

Languages, R M.W. Dixon of James Cook University in Australia says, are like a Western-style house.There are a few rooms you must have (kitchen,bedroom,living room, bathroom), and some optional (office, guest room). On a fixed budget, we can't have all the extras. As to which language is a “best” one, he thinks we should make our own list of desirable features,and then closely examine a few languages to decide whether one has more of them than another.But the list of advantages is itself a matter of judgment.

If you're a hard-core traveler, you're likely always looking for the next big thing. Be it the newest hotel, the most luxurious suite, or climbing the highest mountain, you're down for all. And that makes this new hotel, located in the North Pole, the perfect fit for you.

This winter, guests will have the unbelievable opportunity to stay in the northernmost hotel in the world known as the North Pole Igloo Hotel. However, it does come with two rather large catches. The first is that it will only be available for an extremely limited amount of time. The second is that it will cost $100,000 for a three-night trip.

But, that $100,000 certainly comes with few perks(额外待遇）．

“North Pole igloos hotel concept is movable, sustainable, but still a little extreme," the hotel explains on its site. “Depending on weather conditions we move the heated glass igloos to most safe places around the arctic glacier. You can join the group of very rare people who have spent a night at the North Pole's glacier.”

It further notes, the hotel is only open on request in the month of April, but guests can also stay at another location on other dates.

So,what do you get for the money? The hotel comes with a two-night stay in Svalbard before a two-hour helicopter ride to the North Pole ice camp. Guests are then transported to the glacier and to check into their igloo hotel.

“We provide all of the equipment,"Janne Honkanen,founder of Luxury Action."But you definitely need to have the spirit of an explorer or scientist.”

Guests are “almost guaranteed” to get a great viewing of the Northern Lights as they are still incredibly active in the area throughout the month of April. If you've got the money to burn and the spirit to match, book it now.