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This is one of our entries in the 2024 24 Hour Film Festival, hosted by Lawrence High School. Each filmmaking team was tasked with creating a short film of 3 minutes or less within 24 hours. This is a tremendous opportunity each year to showcase student creativity, teamwork, technical skills, problem solving and time management - all skills that future employers look for in their employees. Each film was tasked with addressing the following prompt:
"The worst thing to happen is getting exactly what you want."
The films this year also had to include three props (water bottle, mirror and leaves on the ground), a required camera angle (worm's eye view, an extreme low angle with the camera pointing straight up), a required line of dialog ("Haven't we met before?") and a sound effect (offscreen door slam).
Created by Zoey Carter, Jayce Feril, Brandon Henkle, Abi Herrera, Caleb Luckner and Lilly McAlister
Starring Lilly McAlister, Brandon Henkle, Abi Herrera and Jayce Feril
Directed by Lilly McAlister
Edited by Brandon Henkle, Abi Herrera and Lilly McAlister
Cinematography by Zoey Carter and Brandon Henkle
Music: "Background Acoustic Calm" by Onoychenko, licensed via Motion Array
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