It was a great chance to experiment with claymation and apply some of the things I learned in my film classes. Arnold spent more than 60 painstaking hours crafting his six-minute film about a boy made of peanut butter. The Best of Final Cut, a showcase of films deemed by judges and audience members to be the cream of the festival, will screen March 24 at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. An awards presentation will be made at both shows. Films range in length from 30 seconds to 25 minutes and vary in genre from narratives and documentaries to commercials and experimental pieces.
Tickets are available at the door.
Proceeds will be awarded in the future as grants for student film projects. The concern for Carter Durham, a senior from Sandy, Utah, and Chris Bowman, a BYU graduate from Glendale, Calif., however, wasn't the future, but the past. In an effort to escape the shadow of his airplane-inventing brothers, Hector Wright tries to create an invention of his own. That meant we had to make efforts to research the time period and the costuming. The whole experience taught me a lot about cinematography.