A team of RWC Electronic Media Technology students are participating in this year’s College Movie Festival. The finished product, titled “What Ain’t Yours,” will premiere at the Block B screening on April 25 at 5 p.m. at the Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center in Covington, Kentucky. The screening is open to the public with a $6 entrance fee, and audience members will be able to vote for a film to receive the Audience Choice Award.
The College Movie Festival is a film contest involving nineteen teams from several area colleges. This is the first year a team from RWC has entered.
All teams are given the same character, dialogue elements, and prop. Each team then selects a genre (western, sci-fi, romantic comedy, etc.) during a random drawing. The team must then take the items they’ve been given and fit them into that genre. Teams have five days to write a script and do preproduction work, then five days to film and do postproduction work. The finished, 7-minute film must be turned in by 5 p.m. on the last day, which was March 28.
The films are then judged by a panel of professionals in the areas of sound, video, writing, and others. Before the final screening, each team will get the chance to meet with the professionals face-to-face and get feedback on their work.
Putting together a production in less than a week proved challenging. “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong and for us that was one hundred percent true,” said Daniel Sammons, co-producer for the film. “Every facet of our technical prowess was put to the test.”
After “What Ain’t Yours” premieres at the College Movie Festival screening, it will be available for viewing on the E-Media department website (rwc.uc.edu/rwcmedia) and YouTube.