Five minutes of fame
Kristin Lusis
Issue date: 4/4/07 Section: The Inside
An American boy and a French girl get tangled up in bed sheets. They soon fall in love in a swept-away international romance. But tragedy befalls the young couple, as the girl's nightmare of her boyfriend dying in a plane crash becomes reality. Then the screen goes dark and the end credits roll.
No, this isn't the plot for the latest box office hit. The storyline is from the student film, "Departure," the Best Picture winner at the annual Campus MovieFest Awards held in the Curry Student Center Ballroom last night.
Campus MovieFest is a nationwide student filmmaking competition that gives students a camcorder, an Apple laptop, some training and one week to create a film no longer than five minutes. It started six years ago in a student's residence hall at Emory University in Georgia, said Megan Solomon, the Campus MovieFest spokesperson.
Today, the annual competition is the country's largest student film festival.
Northeastern's finale was co-hosted by Christine Fitzpatrick, a sophomore communications major, and Jonathan Bragg, a junior communications and cinema studies major. Campus MovieFest narrowed down the 73 total entries to the top 16 films that were shown last night.
Award categories included the Turner Classic Movie Short Film Award, which challenges teams to re-imagine elements from classic films like "Gone With The Wind;" the TBS Very Funny Award, which was given to the night's funniest movie; and the Audience Choice Award where students voted via text messaging for their favorite movie.
The "Very Funny" award was given to "Robot," a film that used clips from the Jan. 31 Boston bomb scare as a result of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force mooninites.
While filming five-minute movies may appear easy, many students faced some difficulties.
The students behind "Departure" faced one important problem during filming - working in different time zones. Doug Quill, a middler communications major, worked with his brother Mike Quill, a middler philosophy and communications major, to film "Departure." Mike Quill was studying abroad in Australia during the filming, which allowed for two sides of the film. Half was filmed in Boston and half in Australia.
No, this isn't the plot for the latest box office hit. The storyline is from the student film, "Departure," the Best Picture winner at the annual Campus MovieFest Awards held in the Curry Student Center Ballroom last night.
Campus MovieFest is a nationwide student filmmaking competition that gives students a camcorder, an Apple laptop, some training and one week to create a film no longer than five minutes. It started six years ago in a student's residence hall at Emory University in Georgia, said Megan Solomon, the Campus MovieFest spokesperson.
Today, the annual competition is the country's largest student film festival.
Northeastern's finale was co-hosted by Christine Fitzpatrick, a sophomore communications major, and Jonathan Bragg, a junior communications and cinema studies major. Campus MovieFest narrowed down the 73 total entries to the top 16 films that were shown last night.
Award categories included the Turner Classic Movie Short Film Award, which challenges teams to re-imagine elements from classic films like "Gone With The Wind;" the TBS Very Funny Award, which was given to the night's funniest movie; and the Audience Choice Award where students voted via text messaging for their favorite movie.
The "Very Funny" award was given to "Robot," a film that used clips from the Jan. 31 Boston bomb scare as a result of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force mooninites.
While filming five-minute movies may appear easy, many students faced some difficulties.
The students behind "Departure" faced one important problem during filming - working in different time zones. Doug Quill, a middler communications major, worked with his brother Mike Quill, a middler philosophy and communications major, to film "Departure." Mike Quill was studying abroad in Australia during the filming, which allowed for two sides of the film. Half was filmed in Boston and half in Australia.
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