Student creations entered into Halloween film contest

AuthorRachel Canning
Published date04 November 2021
Publication titleTaupo Weekender
It’s Halloween, and this is the real plot of a student-made short film shown at Starlight Cinema Taupō on Sunday.

Taupō-nui-a-Tia College students entered three films in the Taupō Halloween Film Contest, Bad Trip, Dear and Hitch.

It was a night of scariness and laughter, said the students, with their films interspersed between short films from around New Zealand and overseas.

Much of the audience was made up of the students’ friends and family, some of whom starred in the short films. They said there were genuine gasps from the audience, and also laughter at seeing the juxtaposition of familiar faces on the big screen in contrast to the other professionally made films.

“We filmed our movies on our phones. There was a big difference with the other movies that were made with a camera,” the students said.

Year 13 media studies student Millie Adams, 17, said it took all term to plan the five-minute film clip for Bad Trip.

Fellow filmmaker Jamie Hutchinson, 18, said part of the brief from media studies teacher Kate Findley was to create a storyboard for every shot.

“There were around 96 shots and we had to justify why each shot was required,” Jamie said.

Students Morgan Thaker, 17 and Mia Jönsson’s, 18, film Dear is about the new girl in town being lured into a cult.

“She is drugged and when she wakes up she is dunked in blood,” Morgan said.

“We kind of forced our friends to show up and be in the...

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