48-Hour Recap Film | RYLA District 6250
Cut before the buses leave
This is the tightest deadline we take on all year and we take it on voluntarily. RYLA runs a weekend. We shoot the whole thing, find the story inside it, cut a five minute film, and play it for the students before they get on the bus home. Forty-eight hours, start to finish. The hard part isn't the shooting or the editing. It's the story. You don't know what the arc is on Friday. It shows up somewhere in the middle of Saturday, and you have to recognize it while you're still holding a camera, because there is no time to go find it in post. So we shoot wide and stay awake. Sessions, downtime, drone for the woods and the water, and a lot of faces. Then somebody edits most of the night.
Who is
RYLA 6250
RYLA is Rotary's leadership training program for young people. District 6250 brings sophomores to Camp Upham Woods in Wisconsin Dells for a weekend built around Rotary and Interact, making real connections, and growing as leaders.
Watched in the room
The students see themselves on screen before they've even left camp, which hits completely differently than a recap posted three weeks later when everybody's back in class. Rotary also gets a film that recruits next year's group while the emotion is still real.
