Word: severities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YARD WAS QUIET over spring break, probably the quietest it has been since September. Most undergraduates fled campus for sunny Jamaica or extravagant trips to Europe. But not all was quiet in the Yard during the last week of March. Within the depths of Sever Hall, with its long, dark corridor and tiny, closet-sized editing rooms, there was constant activity. Four senior VES concentrators spent their spring vacations splicing together clips of footage in order to complete their senior film theses. Ironically, outside of one of the small, windowless editing rooms, a sign is posted which reads, "Students should...
This is the scene of one of the lesser known dens of scholastic activity for undergraduates. It is in the basement of Sever Hall that the short films, video documentaries, film theses and animated films that will be shown this weekend at the Carpenter Center have come into being. It is also in the basement of Sever Hall that the creators of these films have essentially lived for the past few months. "It's funny," says VES 53b student Carrick M. Moore-Gerety '98, "You can go down into the basement of Sever almost anytime and there are always tons...
...four senior theses filmmakers, the community in the basement of Sever was extremely important. "Filmmaking and editing gets so intense and personal that you really need other people's help," says Amanda R. Micheli '95. Micheli took a year off in order to shoot her film called "Just for the Ride," a personal and historical documentary on rodeo cowgirls in New Mexico. She has spent the entire year in the basement of Sever editing her 11 hours of footage into the 58-minute final project. "Most professional filmmakers spend four or five years editing their films, but in an undergraduate...
...presentation of student films this weekend is the end result of this editing frenzy. While most student filmmakers will look back on their films as well-worth the time and on their long nights in Sever with a kind of nostalgia, a week ago their outlook on the whole experience was radically different. As Holsinger commented, "You know that sign about students not living in editing rooms, I used to think that sign was funny. But after the days that I did live in them, it doesn't seem quite that hilarious...
...said the University fed approximately 1,500 students and community members at a barbecue in the Sever Quad Saturday, and she concluded that attendance at the festival was several hundred more...