by Ivanhoe
A&E Editor

The Film Club is sponsoring a marathon event that will have teams of filmmakers writing, shooting, and editing films within a 24-hour period.

The “Twenty-Four Hour Film Competition” will begin on Thursday, April 26 at 4:30 p.m., and end 24 hours later. Student producer/director teams have until April 17 to apply to participate in the contest, and will be responsible for bringing their own crew and equipment on the day of the competition.

Pre-production planning will be limited to securing crew members, video equipment, and locations for the shoot. The competition will begin with the drawing of a genre and a prop out of a hat. Contestants will have to develop a story in the drawn genre that incorporates the prop into the film somehow.

After the drawing, crews will disperse, and a free-for-all will ensue, wherein filmmakers will write, shoot, and edit around the clock. Teams will have to deliver a final product, between two and a half to five minutes long, mastered to a DV tape by 4:30 p.m. on Friday.

One of the student filmmakers who will be competing is Sheryl White. She took video production classes at Shoreline Community College in 1993 and 1994.

“That’s how I learned I really enjoyed it,” she said.

She enrolled again last quarter, in part, to learn on the new technology that has become widely used since then.

White, a member of the Film Club, said that fellow club member Jennifer Forbes conceived of the Twenty-Four Hour Film Competition based on a similar 48-hour event that the Seattle International Film Festival hosts annually.

“Everybody at the meeting seemed very enthusiastic about it,” White said. “We’re trying to incorporate [students from] other classes and get them involved in this.”

She foresees there being stiff competition. As of press time, five teams had already signed up.

“It will be a wild and woolly event,” she said.

The film club will also be hosting a screening of the documentary Sir No Sir on April 17 at 5 p.m. in room 1524. The film explores the anti-Vietnam War movement within the U.S. military in the 1970s. The event is free and all students are welcome.