Grades 7–10 Filmmaking

NIDA's Amazing Race, Grades 7-10

Locations Kensington
Course Fee $755.00
Duration 4-5 Days
Grade Requirements Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10
AT KENSINGTON
Mon 29 Sep - Fri 3 Oct 2025
NIDA Kensington, Sydney
10:00am - 5:00pm AEST
$755 $680
AT OTHER LOCATIONS

NIDA’s Amazing Race, Grades 7-10

Overview

Go on an amazing race through Sydney’s most exciting locations! In this course you’ll create characters and document their journey as you stage and record various challenges, detours, pit-stops and road-blocks. Work with a NIDA Open teaching artist and learn how to devise, write and shoot your own mini-episode of NIDA’s Amazing Race. Begin and end each day at NIDA, film on location, and edit your work in NIDA’s video edit suite.  

This exciting adventure provides a dynamic environment to nurture young filmmakers’ imaginations, creative collaboration and confidence. Join us for this thrilling race and receive a copy of your episode to share with friends and family at the end of the course! 

Components

  • Filmmaking: Under the guidance of a professional filmmaker create characters and devise a narrative. 
  • Production: Gain an understanding of various creative and production roles including camera operator, producer, writer and actor. 
  • Filmmaking: Develop rehearse and produce a short film 
  • Post-production: Apply editing techniques to best enhance your film footage. 

For more information, please see our Terms & Conditions.

NIDA acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which we learn and tell stories, the Bidjigal, Gadigal, Dharawal and Dharug peoples, and we pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders past and present.