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| Some kids express themselves through music, drawing or acting. And some combine all these into one hobby: filmmaking. Brian Hahn, 16, and Brandon Nicholas, 19, who live near Los Angeles, have been making movies together since 1998 and aspire to careers in Hollywood. "(Brandon and I) met in the sandbox, then we went back to his house that first day, and we started on animation. It just went up from | |
| Jurassic Park
3 1/2
Actors: Laura Dern, Sam Neil, Jeff Goldblum.
Locations: Loews Lafayette Square, Cherry Tree, College Park; GC
Greenwood Park 5 (in the mall), Clearwater Crossing; CTS
Clermont-Deluxe, ABC Noblesville, Tibbs, Southview and Twin
drive-ins.
Rating: PG-13
Children's Express Ratings: 4 excellent, 3 good, 2 fair, 1 poor. Jurassic Park, the $65 million Steven Spielberg product | |
| Everyone knows of the glamorous life of making movies in Hollywood
- the big stars, millions of dollars to film each movie, and then
making even more money when the film is released in a flurry of
commercials and advertisements. However, this is the life of only a few lucky filmmakers. Most
people making movies see a very different world. These people work
extremely hard every day just to mak | |
| If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the viewers of The
Lion King missed out on 850 million words. Those 850 million were spoken through the 850,000 pictures cut
from the movie. Don Hahn, producer of the latest Disney film, explains: "When
we talk about a million drawing in these movies, it's really a
million drawings, of which 140- to 150,000 are seen on screen when
you go see the fi | |
| Parents often drop their children off at the movies, but how much do they know about the movies their young ones see? When the parents were children, most of the movies they saw were harmless fun. But today, even PG-rated movies contain violence, sexual references and foul language that might bother children -- and their parents, if they knew about it. Recently, Y-Press brought together some mothe | |
| Last year, Americans spent $7.7 billion at the movies. Many of those dollars came from teen-agers. According to the Motion Picture Association of America, 49 percent of those 12 to 17 say they go to a movie at least once a month. Some of those teen-agers have dreams of someday making movies themselves. Y-Press recently spoke with two young filmmakers from the Indianapolis area who hope to make a l | |
| Watching movies is a favorite pastime for many Americans, but some Indiana teens are watching films for a different purpose. Meg's Gifts, an outreach program of Kids First, the Coalition for Quality Children's Media, sends videos to critically ill children in hospitals across the nation. What makes it unique is that youth volunteers are the ones who rate the films and deem them appropriate for dif | |
| The Indiana State Museum's "Lord of the Rings" exhibit closed last Tuesday. During its three-month stay, more than 250,000 visitors learned about the behind-the-scenes of filmmaking through numerous interactive activities. These included a face-scanning machine that visually transformed a human face to stone, opportunities to have a photo taken with the backdrop of a scene where Frodo joins Gandal | |
| A typical job description for a teenager usually does not include handling chain mail, sharing workspace with orcs and interacting with a quarter of a million people over a three-month span. However, such tasks were all in a day's work for youth volunteers at the "Lord of the Rings" exhibit at the Indiana State Museum. Y-Press recently spoke with ISM volunteer Ben Gurin, 15, about his behind-the-s |
