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Virginia Patterson, Tyler Henderson, and Tony Lazzeroni film

Watson explained that a match cut is when "you juxtapose two images." The group chose to match cut the sliding tuners on a radio.

Watson said that while they were contemplating the concept for the video for nearly four hours, the group had to consider that the first few ideas that came to their heads would be thought of by other groups in the same competition.

Watson and the other writers had to really "think deep" to come up with a realistic and original concept.

While Tech may not be a film school, this seems to be to the advantage of the students competing.

"The funny thing is that a lot of the film school-based films I've seen on there are almost too obscure ... too artistic," Lazzeroni said.

Tyler Henderson said that coming together with a story line that was workable and shooting in a variety of locations were some of the more difficult parts of the competition.

"It was actually a little bit more stressful because we were shooting it in so many locations and we had some editing issues ... and we had to make sure the upload was right," Henderson said.

Coffee and the New Media Center helped the filmmakers get through the long day.

"For this film festival, we met at Starbucks and came to the New Media Center and did the rest of our planning there, and this is also were we rented the equipment we used," said Henderson.

The New Media Center provided high-definition video cameras and software to edit the film during the process of their competition.

Henderson and Lazzeroni both work at the New Media Center, so their experience there helped them throughout filming.

Henderson is hoping that the university will pitch in and show their support by voting for the team's film before several industry professionals screen the top 25 films with the most votes on Nov. 9.

"If we can get as much voting as we can, it can be really beneficial to all of us; we all have an aspect of wanting to work in the film industry and this could be really great for our resume," Henderson said.

The members of the winning team will also receive a MacBook Pro with film software.

"There are also prizes and stuff, but that is the least of my worries; my concern is being able to get into the industry," Henderson said.

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