Pittsburgh Filmmakers Youth Media

Providing media literacy education to the region in the form of innovative classes, hands-on workshops, and outreach programs to schools and the community

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Clay everywhere! These students are taking on the task of taking 2D drawings and shaping them into 3D forms in our Ceramic Sampler camp! From what we can see, it looks like they're doing a great job!

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These students in the Digital Photography Workshop camp taught by Kara Sambrick are experimenting with the shutter speed on their cameras. Using lights, food dye and small containers of water, they are trying to capture some cool stills of the colors.

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Here are some stellar house designs brought to you by our students in the Junior Architects camp. We love seeing the structures they create!

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Some beautiful earth-inspired art is being produced by our students in the Nature’s Gallery camp! These ladies are combining ceramics, fabric, and more to create their masterpieces.

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Here are some busy, busy students creating costumes in our Cosplay camp! We can’t wait to see what characters they bring to life!

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Having fun and posing for the camera with a mask made in our Ceramic Sampler camp! We think it turned out great!

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Look at these students hard at work during our Comic Books camp! Some students are working on comics of their own, while others are gathering inspiration.

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Tripod Tutorial!

The students in the Digital Photography Workshop camp taught by Kara Sambrick got to experiment and see how using a tripod affects their picture taking.

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Honing their reporter skills: Here are the students in the Foundations of Modern Journalism camp taught by Molly Duerig out in the field, interviewing members of the community for their projects.

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Here are some of our students experimenting with sound using Garageband in the MusicMAKERS camp taught by Matt Bogel!

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In the studio art portion of the MusicMAKERS camp, our students were shown how to make their very own djembes (African-style drums) and castanets. 

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Looks like the Foundations of Modern Journalism camp taught by Molly Duerig is going well! Here are some snaps of students sharing their project ideas with local journalists from PublicSource.

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Have you ever wanted to see how sound waves travel? The students in the MusicMAKERS camp taught by Matt Bogel got to do just that! Take a look and see how different sound waves look as they pass through a tube of styrofoam pieces.

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Here at Pittsburgh Filmmakers Youth Media, you’ll see things from all kinds of angles.

Check out some behind the scenes snaps of this week’s Analog Film Workshop camp taught by Michael Johnsen!

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This #animation was created by a nine-year-old in our Create and Animate spring break camp!

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Photos from one of our many outreach programs. We love going out into the community and sharing our knowledge of filmmaking and photography with the youth.

Pittsburgh Filmmakers Youth Media

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We teach and practice film photography here at Pittsburgh Filmmakers Youth Media! Learn to shoot and develop your own film.