Who needs iMovie?
via NY Times Sunday Magazine
Film at 11 (or 12, or 13)
>We're trying to make an action movie," Jonah told me last
spring. "We're sorta stuck right now."
"Yeah," added his collaborator, Martin. "We have a scene
where we need a building to blow up. That's pretty hard to
arrange when you're 12 years old."<
>Martin Kronberg and Jonah Quickmire Pettigrew -- sons,
respectively, of a neuroscientist and a philosopher -- have
since turned 13, and a year later still meet after school to
make movies. The two middle-schoolers have corralled as
many as eight of their peers at the Hooker Jepson school in
New Haven to serve as crew members. ("We just order
pizza," Jonah explains.)
They have written ingenious scripts, blocked scenes,
commandeered entire houses and solved often complex
production problems with all the cinematic resources at
their disposal, which Martin described as "$30 we got from
shoveling snow."<
>The boys wheeled around to Jonah's G-4 computer to go
over the script.<
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