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SWAMP brings silent film Shhh! to A&M locatm
By Thomas Phillips
THE BATTALION
Lights! Camera! Aggies!
Aggies? That’s right. Today and Friday, mem
bers of the Aggie Screenwriting, Acting and
Movie Production club (SWAMP) will shoot
director Steve Landin’s short film Shhh! at
locations around campus, mostly around the
Langford Architecture Building, Eller
Oceanography & Meteorology Building and
the Sterling C. Evans Library.
Landin, a senior environmental design
major, began working on this movie near the
end of last spring and plans to enter it in the
Texas Film Festival, which is held on campus
next spring.
Shhh! tells the story of a downtrodden 20-
something, played by Ben Johnston, a senior
environmental design major, who falls for a
classically beautiful coed, played by Stacie
Moffett, also a senior environmental design
major. Johnston’s character, the protagonist,
sees his vixen long before he meets her, goes
through a number of hopeful “what if’
thoughts and must decide whether to meet
her and risk failed love or to let his perfect
memories live as a substitute.
“The inspiration behind the movie is
personal experiences,” Landin said. “I’ve
always just thought that anticipation was
the best part of anything, that anticipa
tions, sometimes, can be better than the
real event.”
Landin hopes to accomplish all this with
out one small element — a script.
“It’s a modem silent film,” Landin said. “I
feel like the whole point of the story can be
conveyed without dialogue.”
And so, throughout the two-day shoot,
Shhh! will be seen and not heard.
“We’re basically trying to incorporate
Chaplin-style silent film with a modem look
to it throughout the music, the visual effects,
the actors and how they look,” Landin said.
Landin will not be alone in his endeavor,
having enlisted the help of fellow filmmakers
Vishwanand Shetti, a junior computer science
major, Casey Pinkston, a senior environmental
design major and other members of the
SWAMP club.
“I’m going to be the main camera guy,”
Shetti said. “[Steve’s] helped me on projects
before, so he knows how 1 think, and I kind
of know ho w he thinks, so hopefully he
trusts me.”
Making a movie, even a 10-minute short
film, takes a lot of work and help. Landin
said he plans on using a crew of about eight
students to carry out the various tasks
involved with the projects. While the actu
al filming is a large part of the process,
moving equipment from one location to the
next, directing the actors, controlling
crowds and editing the film also keep the
filmmakers busy.
“We all have our own independent films,
but for this one we came together to work as a
team,” Pinkston said. “So doing anything
Steve needs us to do, like lighting or crowd
control, sound, well there probably won’t be
any sound, since it’s a silent film, because you
only have a certain amount of time to get
things done.”
The group plans to shoot the other’s projects
within the next month or two, and hopes that by
We want to influence any
body so that if they do have an
interest— not just in movie
making, but any other hobbies
or creative talents — to take
that step and pursue it; to al
ways be progressing
in [their] ideas...
— Steve Landin
Director of Shhh!
filming on campus, they can spread the word
about the SWAMP club.
“We want to influence anybody so that
if they do have interest — not just in
movie-making, but any other hobbies or
creative talents — to take that step and
pursue it, and not just think about it; to
always be progressing in [their 1 ideas, and
always getting better,” Landin said.
Moffett, who has never acted before, is
taking her first step toward pursuing an
interest in films.
“I asked him [Landin] what I should do,”
Moffet said. “1 was like, ‘I really haven’t acted
before,’ and so he told me what he's
I think I’m going tobetakinga
we may have to do a lot of retakes.
Despite her inexperience. Mofe
has no apprehensions about acting,!
large part to her director.
"Steve is so laid back and so s
work with us,” she said. “It does'
make me nervous because I know fe
me what 1 need to know."
Johnston, however does haveexja
front of the camera. Scenes {nii
Rushmore, starring Bill Murray, w
at his high school, and Johnstonap
bit parts of that movie.
He likens the style of acting insi
to theater acting.
“In theater, it’s a principle thatve
be much bigger in your movement^
can see from a distance all youremo:
saiu. “Here, it’s a silent film, buiit!
similar in the sense that there's
going to be a lot less close-ups of
where you can see the emotion thai
through a person, and more of seeui:
takes the entire body.”
While Moffet and Johnston ma\
chance at silverscreen fame, both clai-
as only a small part of their
career ambition.
“I don’t have an overwhelmingde
act, but I think he (Landin] approach
of us because we’re both secure with
selves to take on putting ourselvesii
people.” Johnston said. "Not everyday]
get to be in a student film thatyouia
with a copy of that you can showy®;
children and have all of them laud)a
utterly ridiculous you Itxak.”
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