Shirley - UNT Advanced Film Studies 1997

University of North Texas (UNT) Advanced Film Studies - 1997
"Shirley" is about how a bad decision changed the lives of two friends.
This is one of several of the final student films produced by the UNT advanced film studies class in 1997. I don’t remember everyone involved. I’ve pulled names from the credits on each of the films and will assume these are the students from the class. If you would like to see the specific credit received, and additional cast/crew credits, please watch the credits on the individual short films. If you were in the class and your name is missing, let me know and I’ll add it. If you weren’t in the class and your name is here, congratulations! If your name is spelled wrong, it was probably wrong in the credits of at least one of the films, where I copied these names from.
UNT Advanced Film Studies Students:
Seale Adams
Steve Andrews
Heath Banks
Chris Blackledge
Melinda Buckley
Will Chen
Shane Clark
Tad Dennis (Thomas A. Dennis)
Brandon Dodd
Richard Doss
Jim Driskell
Cindy Edgemon
Elisa Farrell
Deedee Freeman
Matt Hirsch
Ben Hogan
Norma Inocencio
Jeremy Jimenez
Katherine “Katy” Kirby
Diane Lowe
Jariya “Jun” Manoonkulchai
Heather Matson
Keith Miller
Clay Mills
Mike Moe
J. Michael Owen
Fernando Perez Del Rio
Heidi Quintero
Dan Riddle
Paul Salinas
Kristi Sandoval
Joe Scott
Chris Switzer
Camille Sharon Thien
Nathaniel Torson
Devrin Usta
Jeff Valeri
Matt Walters
Chris Weatherly
LouAnn Wu
Jack Young
I can’t recall, but I assume these films were all shot on 16mm silent film. The audio was recorded to mag and the editors had to work with reels of synced film and mag stock. This transfer was completely out of sync, so I’ve done what I can without making myself crazy to adjust the sync before uploading. The way these films were made is much more expensive, time consuming and difficult than making the equivalent films would be today with digital recording and editing options.
All of these were shot in and around Denton, Texas, near the University of North Texas, in 1997. I think this was a spring semester class only, because I actually graduated in 1996 but stayed at school after graduating so I could participate in this class.
My VHS copy - which I don’t think I’d ever played prior to this conversion - has suffered from age. The films which were later in the tape look better than the ones which were early on the tape. The quality, therefore, varies from one film to the next just because of the VHS. If you were part of this group and have a better copy, please let me know! I had lunch with a couple of the guys from class and they prompted me to upload these films since they couldn’t locate them. I’d be happy to share a better version, if it exits.
Also, to the people who made these films, please drop a comment or find me on other social medias! I’d love to hear what you’ve been up to.
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