2008 Woodie Awards
UP Cinema Presents Duo's Film Collaboration
Caroline Walton
Issue date: 4/4/08 Section: Life & Style
Making films is a relatively new hobby for freshman Jay Flenor, but he has always been interested in the medium since high school.
"[During] my junior year in high school, I took a multimedia class that taught me how to capitalize on my interest," Flenor said. "So, eventually, I bought a camera and have been using it ever since."
Flenor began using his camera on small projects, but the practice exercises were never really completed. His first film came to fruition during spring of last year, he said.
The debut also marks Flenor's collaboration will fellow Alma native and freshman, Joey Bland. The film is an underdog story of a nerdy character that beats the town jock in a much anticipated tennis match, ultimately winning the heart of the jock's girlfriend, Flenor said.
The duo's second film, titled "Good Night to Normal," was the sole submission for last Friday's University Programs Cinema Arts Committee film competition. The film's narrative is different from their last work's lighthearted fun. In fact, it would probably be considered as a thriller with some action sequences, Flenor said.
"This film is a dark film that explores two completely different polarizing views on normalcy," he said.
He described one of the characters as an unhappily married "average Joe" who can't appreciate what he has. Thus, he is constantly trying to finds ways to get out of what most would think to be a great life. The character representing the opposite view is one who embodies an ultra-sociopath mind frame and has no ability to sympathize with the average Joe character.
"He can't understand why someone who has such a great life wants to throw it away in order to distinguish himself from society," Flenor said. "These two separate views collide in the film."
"Good Night to Normal" will premiere today from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Arkansas Union Theatre.
"[During] my junior year in high school, I took a multimedia class that taught me how to capitalize on my interest," Flenor said. "So, eventually, I bought a camera and have been using it ever since."
Flenor began using his camera on small projects, but the practice exercises were never really completed. His first film came to fruition during spring of last year, he said.
The debut also marks Flenor's collaboration will fellow Alma native and freshman, Joey Bland. The film is an underdog story of a nerdy character that beats the town jock in a much anticipated tennis match, ultimately winning the heart of the jock's girlfriend, Flenor said.
The duo's second film, titled "Good Night to Normal," was the sole submission for last Friday's University Programs Cinema Arts Committee film competition. The film's narrative is different from their last work's lighthearted fun. In fact, it would probably be considered as a thriller with some action sequences, Flenor said.
"This film is a dark film that explores two completely different polarizing views on normalcy," he said.
He described one of the characters as an unhappily married "average Joe" who can't appreciate what he has. Thus, he is constantly trying to finds ways to get out of what most would think to be a great life. The character representing the opposite view is one who embodies an ultra-sociopath mind frame and has no ability to sympathize with the average Joe character.
"He can't understand why someone who has such a great life wants to throw it away in order to distinguish himself from society," Flenor said. "These two separate views collide in the film."
"Good Night to Normal" will premiere today from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Arkansas Union Theatre.
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