24 Hour Young Filmmaker’s Experience
Posted March 7, 2016 at 5:55 am by Tim Dustrude
Left to right: Conner Von Kuetzing, mentor; Karen Palmer, Friday Harbor Film Festival; Kendrick Dong, Sage Grant, Gemma Richard, Robby Miller, Coulson McCullough, Leo Miller, Derek Smith, STEM Director and Fred Yockers, Spring Street Instructor (not pictured: Tawan Edholm, Julian Rich, Wesley Rich and Alex Frampton) – Tim Dustrude photo
This past weekend, the Friday Harbor Film Festival together with Spring Street International School and Friday Harbor High School held the first ever 24 Hour Young Filmmaker’s Experience, where several teams of high school and middle school students created their own short films within a 24 hour time frame.
The event began at 11:00 AM on Saturday, when all the students gathered for the instruction and game plan at the new S.T.E.M. center at FHHS, were given some video gear, and then sent away at noon to do their planning, shooting and editing.
On Sunday at noon, all finished projects were due and everyone again came to the S.T.EM. center to view the results.
In case you are unfamiliar with filmmaking, just know that it can be extremely difficult to come up with an idea, shoot it, edit it, and present it within a 24 hour time frame, but all of these kids did exactly that. You can see 3 of their videos here which are now available on YouTube. (when the others come available they will be added below).
This exercise was intended as a “get your feet wet” kind of experience for the F.H. Film Festival’s Young Filmmakers’ Project, which will be a part of the 2016 FH Film Festival and will award a $500 scholarship for best films. Check the www.fhff.org website for more information on that.
For now, here are a few of this past weekend’s films:
First, “Pickpocket Gone Wrong” by Orcas Island’s Leo Miller –
Next, HoboSlowMo by Tawan Edholm, Julian Rich, Wesley Rich and Alex Frampton –
Friday Harbor: A Day in the Life of Friday Harbor and San Juan Island, by Kendrick Dong –
Dogs Deserve Love by Sage Grant –
Home Coming by Gemma Richard and Robby Miller –
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6 comments:
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Great job everyone who participated, sponsored and mentored. Looking forward to seeing more in the future.
Yea!! Karen!! You are the best. Such a great project!!
I am so proud of everyone that participated!!!! Congrats!!!! This is a great beginning!!
Big Huge Thanks to Kristine Odle also who nurtured this project for the FHFF.
thanks also to Tony Vivenzio who has been with us from the beginning!!! without his and everyones efforts this would not have come together…To all involved…BIG HUGE THANKS!
Congratulations on a successful and innovative project and the imagination of the students who participated. I wish them all the luck in participating in our 2016 Friday Harbor Film Festival contest. Many thanks go to Karen Palmer, Kristine Odle, Tony Vivensio, Derek Smith, Fred Yockers and all the student paticipants. Looking forward to more completed projects. Good Luck everyone.
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