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By Trevor McArthur
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The warrior sheaths his sword as
he stands high atop the isolated
butte. He looks in ail directions,
surveys the territory and glances
back to his companions. They are
all gathered preparing for action.
Fortunately they are alone up here,
because the warrior suddenly real
izes they won’t see indoor plumb
ing until they get back to Scotis
bluff.
The action they are awaiting will
be all for the sake of the Arriflex
l6mm camera being set up. Cam
eraman Matt Maaske, an unde
clared junior, supervises the set-up
as director Kent Nelson, a senior
film studies major, takes a pinch of
Copenhagen and contemplates
how the shot will run.
Nelson has brought these
people out to this wilderness to
shoot his independent study proj
ect, a film involving swordplay and
rocky cliffs.
Nelson said his history in the
medium began a long time ago,
back in his home town of Manhat
tan, Kan., playing with a standard
8mm camera his family had. In jun
ior high he began making films with
friends and in high school took a
class in super-8mm filmmaking.
Many of the early films revolved
around swords and sorcery plots,
like his current project. Nelson
laughs about some of their methods
now.
Whoever wasn t on screen at
the lime would ru n the camera, and
one guy would play all the bad guys
who set killed,” Nelson Mid. "He
would just wear a mask so you
couldn’t tell.
"And one time wc had whal was
supposed to be a long line of bid
guys but we only had like three
people. So we panned slowly
across their feel and when some
one would get out of the frame they
would mn Behind the camera and
stand in the next place in line, it
worked pretty well actually, but a
1 couple times you could see some
one just getting there."
When Nelson started attending
the University of Nebraska-Uncoln,
he was majoring in broadcasting
but soon realized that was not what
he wanted to pursue. After taking
the the 8mm film class and acting as
cameraman for a 16mm film class
project "Happy Hour," he decided
to ao a film of his own.
Over the following summer he
worked on a script lie had written
for a screenwriting class and saved
money for the project. He began
production this semester and said
that they’ve been filming in Toad
stool Park, at Jailhouae and Court
house Hock and nearScottsbtui?so
far. *
"We’ve been doing a‘J the action
first, all the fun stuff/ Nelson said.
Nelson is using the university's
film equipment, which saves him
the coat of equipment rental. Even
so, he said he expects the film to
cost about $3,000 and is trying to
keep it on the lowest possible
budget.
“I hope I won’t have to take out
a loan,’’ Nelson said.
He squirms when asked to name
a favorite director, but can answer
immediately when asked if there
was a particularly influencing film.
“Yeah, ‘Star Wars’ got me really
interested in movies, like a lot of
people,’’ he said. “When you read
about people at University of
Southern California they don’t say
they wanted to become a filmmaker
because of Fritz Lang, it was George
Lucas. It’s not my favorite film to
day, but it was a lot then. It was a lot
for any kid in 5th grade.”
Maaske said his first experience
with moving picture making was
when some video equipment was
' hi to his school. He was a
of Nelson’s and also in last
fall’s 8mm class and on the lighting
crew for the 16mm class project. As
Nelson began to plan nis movie,
Maaske agreed to be cameraman
and help with some of the plan
ning.
So far they have completed
about half of the filming, although
they still haven’t settled on a title.
Both have light loads this semester
but say with all the work involved in
making a film they are just keeping
ahead of their studies. Nelson has
had an extra bit of scrambling re
cently with his marriage last week
end.
Nelson said he pla ns to graduate
in May and then search for a jab in
the motion picture industry He said
that to get in he would do almost
anything and is hoping to get some
good contacts from his advisor and
professor Wheeler Dixon.
"1 wouldn't mind being PA (pro
duction assistant) level for a while,"
Nelson said.
Bui given his preference he said
he would tike to do more camera
work and, especially, direct. One of
his highest goals is to help bring
more respectability to science fic
tion.
"People just don’t take it seri
ously," Nelson said.
Tnat’s not his only field of inter
est, but he appears to be firmly
rooted in action.
"I’d also like to do things a little
more based in reality, like Viking
pictures and such," Nelson said.
But his immediate plans are to
finish shooting and then edit the
film, which he expects will take a
month in itself. Nelson said that his
immediate plans for the film in
clude entering it in the student
Academy Award competition and
Nissan Focus student film contest.
What’s the film about? Nelson
would rather keep some mystery,
although he will give some Idea, t
"I'd rather people’cameto see it,"
Nelson said. ll guess it’s about this
kid who deals with his problems
through fantasy and maybe goes
too fir."
Upper left: Kent Nelson (right) directs a scene for his independent
film project with Craig Goodman ^middle) and Todd Davis (left), a
University of Nebraska lJncoln civil engineering student, on loca
tion near Chimney Rock. Bottom: Nelson (far right) and Eric Steiner
(right) prepare to shoot a scene with Goodman (far left) and Kent
Meyer (left) for an independent film project Upper right: Preparing
for battle, or film, Craig Goodman, a student at Kansas State Univer
sity poses near Chimney ROCk for filming. Photos courtesy of Matt Maaske
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