13 years ago...
13 years ago Bryan and Jay Duplass and I were in our first film production class at UT. The class was structured so that each student made three films individually and the fourth project was a group project, so you partnered up with someone. The first project was edited in-camera and had no sound. On the second project we could edit the picture, but still we had no sound. The third project incorporated non-sync sound and the fourth project was also a non-sync sound film but it was a group project so the logistics got a little more complex. All of the projects were to be shot on black & white 16mm film.
Jay and Bryan and I did our fourth project together. It was called SEEN. It was 1994 and Pulp Fiction had just come out. We were so impressed with the way that movie was told, the way it jumped back and forth in time, and so we wanted to do something similar based around the idea of a school shooting. I think the school shooting part of it came from Bryan -- he was inspired by one of Stephen King's short stories. I think it was "Apt Pupil" that he was thinking of when he wrote this.
So I finally digitized the film and uploaded it to youtube. Here it is:
