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The Party On Penn Ave.

By Matthew Miramontes- 12th Grade, Cornell High School

After riding up an elevator to the tenth floor at the Theater Square Garage, you are greeted with smiling faces, the smell of freshly squeezed lemonade, and the sounds of laughter and live music. If any of these ring a bell then you must have been at the Downtown Rooftop Shindig. Read more [...]

aside 20 Aug

Capturing Ideas Through Photography

By Matthew Ryan Miramontes - 11th Grade, Cornell High School
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But when taking a picture, how do you capture the words that you want to say? Digital Photography, a one-week course through Pittsburgh Filmmakers Youth Media, helps aspiring photographers to capture photos of the world around them. This year the class Read more [...]

aside 20 Aug

A Week Of Film

By Ellen Madden - 10th Grade, Moon Area High School
Shooting videos has always been a short and easy process for kids of my generation. Growing up around digital cameras and cell phones with built-in cameras, it's hard to imagine a time when recording a video took more than a few seconds of work. At Pittsburgh Filmmakers, teens ages 14-18 who are interested in filmmaking Read more [...]

aside 4 Aug

High School Directors Learn the Basics of Filmmaking

By Jason Earle - 12th Grade, North Allegheny Senior High School
Susan Howard, the Youth Media Director at Pittsburgh Filmmakers, describes filmmaking as a "rich and complex process," but she claims her campers' work at the Director's Workshop at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts is "on par" with Read more [...]

aside 22 Jul

Creating the Next Generation of Steven Spielbergs

By Stephanie Wang - 11th Grade, Peters Township High School
What if you had the opportunity to make a movie? What would you make it about? How would you write it? How would you shoot the film? These are all questions participants of the Digital Filmmaking Camp, organized by the Pittsburgh Filmmakers Youth Media, have to answer Read more [...]

aside 15 Jul

Children, Cameras, and Cryptozoology

By Dominic Lazzini - 10th Grade, South Fayette Township High School
It was a quiet, sunny afternoon in early July. The temperature was in the low-eighties, there were some clouds in the sky, and in the yard of the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts Read more [...]