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...equipment to begin filming: a tripod and a sound system. The sound equipment came from yet another Cabot House member, George M. Collins ’01. “George was really involved with a lot of VES projects and had some great equipment,” says Newkirk. “He was very helpful to us.” The sound equipment was supplemented by a surprise purchase by one of Newkirk’s roommates. Says Newkirk, “I came back from break and suddenly, hey! There’s a tripod...
...Newkirk applied to get Nightfall recognized as a student group last October. James Lawler, who also lived in Cabot House, heard about Newkirk’s idea and approached him bearing a screenplay called Angel Walk that he had written over the summer at a Harvard screenwriting workshop. Newkirk accepted the script gratefully and the two waited for approval on the club...
...make a film. “We needed a camera so that we could makes some films, so we would have something to show people to convince them to give us money so we could get a camera. There were Catch-22s all over the place,” Newkirk says...
...Cabot House, it was only fitting that the solution should come from there too, in the form of Cabot House Master Jim Ware. Ware generously agreed to put up the money for a Sony VX-2000 Digital Camcorder, which is at the low end of the professional video spectrum. Newkirk himself paid for the computer and editing equipment. And Lawler put up the money for the “Angel Walk” shoot. Out of these acts of charity (and many others), Nightfall was born...
...people were frustrated with the VES department, because their emphasis is so strongly on nonfiction filmmaking,” says Newkirk, a former VES major himself, who subsequently switched to physics. “It is a club for all people, including VES people, but it was made by non-VES people.” Newkirk found himself doing non-fiction filmmaking again when Ware and Newkirk worked out the conditions for Cabot House to buy the digital camera: 1) It would be for use by Cabot House students only, 2) Cabot House students would have to make three short...