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Jack Miles (right) listens as Brian Anton directs Nancy Centllvre at Wyuka Cemetery.
Student producing film with opportunity of class
By John Heuertz
SufT Reporter
Every fall the University of Ne
braska-Lincoin offers a
course in super 8mm film
making in which students get the
opportunity to make a silent film.
Wheeler Dixon, associate professor
of English and art, said that the
super 8mm class serves as a testing
Sound for another course taught in
e spring.
In the spring course, which re
quires the instructor's permission,
the entire class pools their talents to
produce a single l6mm sound film.
Dixon said that in the super 8 class
he looks not only for technical and
creative skills, but r student’s
ability to work with i. jp. Hesaid
that out of a class of een or so in
the fall, maybe 10or .studentsare
given permission to icgister for the
spring course.
Dixon said every student is re
quired to provide a script approxi
mately 12 to 15 pages long Me said
that he encourages the students to
write an original script but that they
may adapt a script if the story is in
the public domain This semester,
Dixon said, all of the students have
written original scripts.
“These (super 8mm) films (that
we are now making) will not be
shown to the public. They are
mainly for practice — something
you can start on to get a feel for what
you’re doing," Brian Anton, a fresh
man film major enrolled in the
super 8mm class.
The cost of making a super 8mm
short film is minimal, according to
Anton. Anton said that one of the
points of making films in super
8mm is to keep costs reasonable.
“It’s very feasible for a student to
afford this (film making) class. It’s
just like an art class where you have
to buy markers, and paints etc."
Walgreen’s at 1701 South Street
lists a 50-foot roll of Super 8mm
Kodacolor type A film at $7.99.
Dixon says that at the speed in
which his class shoots a roll of film,
50 feet lasts four minutes and ten
seconds. To develop a roll of this
film Walgreen’s charges $2.49
To gel started, Anton said, you
just buy a few rolls and start shoot
ing on a camera provided by the
film department. Anton said that
the final project for the class is one
super 8mm film that runs from 15 to
20 minutes. Anton pointed out that
just because a film lasts only 20
minutes in its final cut, that many
rolls may have to be shot before
there is enough footage to choose
from in order to create the desired
affect.
Anton said that his story is about
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