2008 Woodie Awards
Students get props
24-hour film festival participants compete to finish, submit entries
Jordan Krueger
Issue date: 4/4/08 Section: Trinity Life
Just when it seemed that dreaded all-nighters have become inevitable facts of life, some student film makers continued to push the envelope last weekend by burning the midnight oil just for fun.
Kicking off TigerTV's second annual film festival, the 24-hour film race commenced last Friday at 11:20 p.m. Equipped with a camera, half a script and rub-on tattoos as props, eight teams set out to complete their own short films in the span of just one rotation of the Earth.
"The props aren't really to supply them with production value," said Junior Jon Simpkins, writer of the 24-hour film race script. "It's just to give them something that they would have to be creative to implement."
The man who single-handedly wrote and produced "A Story About Bob," Simpkins wrote the film race script intentionally vague, lending itself to a couple different genres and interpretations of where to go for the end.
"Last year, the script was terrible. Just God-awful. But it was more fun working with it because we could just make fun of it," said Junior Stephen Brown, a participant in the film race from both this year and last year.
"But this year the script was excellently written. The problem [we had] was that it was too well-written for a 24-hour contest," Brown said. "It was challenging; we really had to stretch our creativity to its limits."
According to Sophomore Daniel Sanchez, who worked in Brown's team, "All of us except for Josh Currie had some sort of time period when we did take a nap. Josh did, though, drink like five energy drinks within a few hours."
Twice as many teams competed this year than last year. According to Junior Andy Quirin, head of the film festival, "We had a wider diversity [of teams competing]… It was a lot different from just communications students that were competing."
In addition to a wider variety of students competing, the four teams that completed their films on time submitted very different films.
Kicking off TigerTV's second annual film festival, the 24-hour film race commenced last Friday at 11:20 p.m. Equipped with a camera, half a script and rub-on tattoos as props, eight teams set out to complete their own short films in the span of just one rotation of the Earth.
"The props aren't really to supply them with production value," said Junior Jon Simpkins, writer of the 24-hour film race script. "It's just to give them something that they would have to be creative to implement."
The man who single-handedly wrote and produced "A Story About Bob," Simpkins wrote the film race script intentionally vague, lending itself to a couple different genres and interpretations of where to go for the end.
"Last year, the script was terrible. Just God-awful. But it was more fun working with it because we could just make fun of it," said Junior Stephen Brown, a participant in the film race from both this year and last year.
"But this year the script was excellently written. The problem [we had] was that it was too well-written for a 24-hour contest," Brown said. "It was challenging; we really had to stretch our creativity to its limits."
According to Sophomore Daniel Sanchez, who worked in Brown's team, "All of us except for Josh Currie had some sort of time period when we did take a nap. Josh did, though, drink like five energy drinks within a few hours."
Twice as many teams competed this year than last year. According to Junior Andy Quirin, head of the film festival, "We had a wider diversity [of teams competing]… It was a lot different from just communications students that were competing."
In addition to a wider variety of students competing, the four teams that completed their films on time submitted very different films.
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