US holiday camps teach kids to become YouTube stars

With the most successful child YouTube stars raking in millions of dollars a year a growing number of parents in the US are enrolling their kids in summer camps designed to turn them into YouTube sensations.

Parents pay up to US$1000 to send children as young as five to camps and educational programmes that teach them how to shoot and edit videos and get noticed on YouTube.

The Wall Street Journal reported that a Silicon Valley‑based ed‑tech company ID Tech offers a week long camp for 10‑ to 12‑year‑olds which promises to help them establish a brand and become a YouTube star.

Kids are taught the fundamentals of pre‑production and composition and how to use professional equipment to capture and edit footage for vlogs, tutorials and short films.

The courses are taught at high schools and universities around the US as well as in Hong Kong, Tokyo and, in the case of the course for teenagers, the UK.

Many parents the Wall Street Journal spoke with dismissed their children's interest in becoming YouTube stars as hobbies or phases.

[Source:Stuff.co]

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