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Jacinta ~ 23

Australian, feminist, queer, psych graduate. English and French. This is a blog posts about music, girls, places, comedy, science, literature, history, politics - idk just stuff. I’m a queer mentally ill women, but I’m white, cis, and able-bodied, so feel free to call me out if I do something wrong.

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“TIED” - Burton and Garran hall’s submission in the 40 Hours Of Film competition!

We were given 40hrs to make a 4-8min film, and 3 stimulus: an item - a bell (we used it as the doorbell sound), a place - the botanical gardens (where they were running) and a quote: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference”. Most other colleges managed to just slip the quote into their films, however, we decided to make it a little more thematic.

The film takes the idea that we have set paths and courses of action that we follow every day (you can interpret this as being set down by societal norms, or fate, or whatever), and that nobody really leaves those paths, despite wanting to (again, because societal norms say so, because it’s just not done, for whatever reason) - and reifies this idea. The string makes the more travelled path visible for the audience (duh) and the main characters don’t let go of their strings, cus, yknow, fate/society.

We were given 40 hours to write, film, and edit the entire thing, which is 7 minutes long (with credits) - quite a fucking achievement! My official role was continuity, but I ended up co-directing, editing, basically bossing the actors and crew around, being part of the crew, as well as having a cute 30 seconds on screen (see if you can spot me! Also count how many times my name shows up in credits, lol). I also managed to fall in love with the main actress, who I originally thought would be bad for the role but changed my mind pretty fucking quickly.

We ended up coming 3rd out of the 8 or 9 colleges that entered, so I’m very proud (it was our director’s first time shooting a short film - he’s a 2nd year visual arts student who’s done one course on film). I spent about 30 of the 40hrs we were given actively involved in shooting/editing it, the rest was eating/sleeping/thinking about it. I’m extremely attached to this, I put so much into it. I also made a shitton of new friends working on it.

ALSO SOUNDTRACK OMFG we were like “Hey Tate can you make a soundtrack for us pls the movie is sort of about this” and WITHOUT HAVING EVEN SEEN THE FILM he just sat down at his piano and about 2hrs later he handed us an usb with the track recorded on it, completely original, and absolutely perfect and gorgeous and beautiful and he’s the most talented person ever. I love the music so fucking much.

TL;DR A SHORT FILM LOOK I HAD A BIG HAND IN FILMING AND MAKING A SHORT FILM YAY WATCH THE THING THAT I HELPED MAKE! Also put it on extreme HD because it’s filmed for that and is better like that.