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CALVIN GRADS DEBUT NEW FILM
By Kathleen Minkner ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR Last Tuesday, Calvin College graduate Scott Storteboom presented the first episode of a new children’s video he developed. The video, designed mainly for kids ages ten and under, is the very first of its kind. The scenes were developed and shot by computer instead of video. Child actors were then added to the computer-animated environment. Storteboom, who graduated from Calvin in 1992 with a degree in Communication, Arts and Sciences, joined with partner Eliot Briggs at film school in Los Angeles. The two formed a production company called Brigaboom LLC (a combination of their last names). Last April, the two moved back to Michigan and began developing their computerized children’s series, entitled “Me and My Magnificent Mind.” The series is designed to teach kids a moral lesson. “Each episode portrays Alison [actor Audrey Filson] and her three friends [Dustin Stek, Jay Filson, and Morgan Cole] as they come across a moral dilemma. By working through this conflict, in their imagined land, they discover something about proper behavior in the real world,” said Storteboom. The actors were chosen from a group of fifty local children who auditioned for the part. The actors had to act in front of a green-screen. They were then “cut out” an “pasted” on the computer-generated scenery. The kids worked nine hour days in the hot month of July, but seemed to enjoy the experience. “It was hot, and I really got sick of looking at the green wall,” said Audrey Filson. Cole agreed. “When we were supposed to look at the forest we had to look at the ceiling.” After the scenery had been made and the shooting was finished, it took a couple of months before the finished product. The first episode, which runs about 24 minutes, is called “The Giant” and was shown for the first time ever on April 19. About 100 kids, all under the age of ten, came to the showing. Though they were all were bouncing in their seats with energy, the video held their attention for the full half hour. Quentin Schultze, Calvin CAS Professor, was glad to see the video was so well received by the public. “This is the world premiere of this video and it is great to see so many people there.” According to Schultze, the CAS department is expanding, and this is just one of the many facets of the department. |
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