Students flock to the Benson Auditorium, but it is 8 p.m., not 9 a.m., and the 5-Minute Film Festival is about to begin. Students will go tonight expecting to be humored for $5 by the short clips that they are about to watch, but what really goes into those videos?
Many people put their time and energy into this festival to really entertain.
The people who work behind the scenes offer their time and resources, and those who are showcasing their work put in time filming and editing and then display their hard work for all to see.
It’s not hard to be a part of the 5-Minute Film Festival. To participate in the festival requires a short film five minutes or less in length that is Harding appropriate and turned in on time.
Senior Josh Gibbs is putting his energies into a music video created by his free-travel group from his summer trip at Harding University in Greece.
“I chose to make a video because some of my friends wanted to do a video over free travel, and so when we got to that point during free travel when there was an open period and some music playing, we went forward and did it,” Gibbs said.
The friends Gibbs is referring to are junior Brandon Huber, who is submitting the music video, and seniors Meg Hill and Andrea Stackpole.
The video was made all in one night at the Brussels South Charleroi Airport. With the help of some enthusiastic back-up dancers, and a few stills thrown in for effect.
“[The music video] started as a follow-up to the ‘Party in the USA’ video that we made on the Fourth of July,” Huber said. “We were planning it for the whole free travel, but we could never decide on a song or anything, and then it was that night, the last night all four of us would be together because Meg was leaving in the morning, and we were like, ‘Well, we’re all here all night; why sleep when we can make a music video?'”
The music video was a reflection of the group and how they had grown closer together over the trip, Gibbs said.
“Here is something all four of us did together,” Huber said. “Here is what our group [has] done.”
According to Gibbs, there was a collection of songs on his cell phone and after deliberation the group chose “Everytime We Touch” by Cascada.
The memory card Huber had in his Panasonic point and shoot digital camera dictated the format with one take per video-portion and had to be pieced together later. The other half of the video ended up being stills taken from other parts of the trip.
