One high school. Seven stories. Infinite possibilities.
By far my favorite of all of the films I've made over the years, "This Will Linger" is a film that I adapted from the novel The Realm of Possibility by David Levithan during my last month of high school. Plus, you may recognize a certain cast member. Hint: check the side-bar ---->
I'm posting about it now to announce (excitedly) that the film just won an "Award of Merit" at the Best Shorts Competition! :)
So, about the film:
The idea for the film came when I was rereading the (aforementioned) book The Realm of Possibility, by David Levithan. It's a fascinating book, made up of 20 different chapters, each of which tells the story, in verse, of a different student at the same high school. I was wondering why it is that I love the book so much when it hit me: Each of us is the protagonist of our own story. The same person can be the hero in one story, the best friend in another, the romantic interest in another.
So I thought I'd like to make it into a movie. And, thanks to a phenomenal cast and 107 hours and 18 minutes of work, I did.
I think this particular film worked really well for a senior project partly because it served as a way to reflect on high school as it drew to a close. Each of us lived a completely different four years. Each of our stories had a different cast of characters, a different arc, a different genre. But in many ways, as separate as our stories may seem to be, they were, during those four years, always overlapping.
The film, then, is one way of looking at the weird, wonderful, tangled mess of stories that is high school.
I hope you like it! :)
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I'm posting about it now to announce (excitedly) that the film just won an "Award of Merit" at the Best Shorts Competition! :)
So, about the film:
The idea for the film came when I was rereading the (aforementioned) book The Realm of Possibility, by David Levithan. It's a fascinating book, made up of 20 different chapters, each of which tells the story, in verse, of a different student at the same high school. I was wondering why it is that I love the book so much when it hit me: Each of us is the protagonist of our own story. The same person can be the hero in one story, the best friend in another, the romantic interest in another.
So I thought I'd like to make it into a movie. And, thanks to a phenomenal cast and 107 hours and 18 minutes of work, I did.
I think this particular film worked really well for a senior project partly because it served as a way to reflect on high school as it drew to a close. Each of us lived a completely different four years. Each of our stories had a different cast of characters, a different arc, a different genre. But in many ways, as separate as our stories may seem to be, they were, during those four years, always overlapping.
The film, then, is one way of looking at the weird, wonderful, tangled mess of stories that is high school.
I hope you like it! :)
Don't forget to subscribe!