LONDONDERRY — Twelve-year-old Meghan Lee thought for sure she'd get a serious case of the butterflies during her first time in front of the camera.

Fortunately, those stomach flutters never came for the Londonderry girl, who appeared on the small screen with her close pals Amaya Lessard, 11, and Eva Gertz, 11.

“This is really fun,” said Meghan, as she and Amaya checked out the footage — a music video the girls wrote based on “The Hunger Games” and set to the strains of Taylor Swift's “Safe And Sound” — inside the Londonderry Cable Access Center.

Eva disagreed. “I kind of like being behind the camera,” she said with a shrug.

As participants in this year's Beginner Summer Media Camp, children entering grades five through eight have been learning all aspects of video production throughout the past week, including script writing and storyboarding, digital camera work, sound and special effects.

Earlier this week, the dozen or so young film producers have been spending their weekdays inside the cable studio, with the finished products, in the form of music videos, mock commercials and pretend newscasts, to be screened later next week.

The program has proven popular over the years, said training coordinator Erin Brodman, who leads the beginners' camp and the more advanced program being offered next month.

Brodman said she typically invites a past camper back to the program each summer, allowing peers to help share their knowledge with the beginners.

This week's student mentor was Ethan Moorehouse, 14. And like last year, he's been enjoying writing parodies of popular pop songs, a passion he shared with camper Andrew Cloyd, 11.

Hunched over a laptop, the boys erupted into giggles over their silly ode to gluttony, “Slice of Pie,” sung to the tune of a popular Katy Perry song.

“This is gonna be great on camera,” Ethan told Andrew.

“Do you have your props?” he asked him, as Andrew dutifully held up his cardboard cutouts of cherry and apple pies.

“They really, really enjoy making music videos,” Brodman said.

The Londonderry Access Center will host its second camp session, Advanced Summer Media, in early August. Several spaces were still available as of this week.

For more information on the media camps, contact Brodman at 432-1100, ext. 185.

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April Guilmet may be reached at AGuilmet@newstote.com.