University needs a quality film school
Last Thursday Eric Gremillion wrote a column on the need for a film school at LSU. Eric stated local talent is wasted by the lack of film education in the state.
I have been on the ground floor with the Cinema Club and have helped organize the Outhouse film and video festival for the past 5 years. It has kept me in college much longer than I will admit but I am committed to making changes for future generations of filmmakers that don’t want to leave the state.
Every year I meet many freshmen that want to make movies in their native home of Baton Rouge but are soon turned sour by the lack of help they can find at the flagship university. Most go to UNO where their dreams are further crushed by the film program there which is rumored to be in the top 10 film schools of the nation but has failed to ever put out one actual filmmaker. My hopes for a film school met with more opposition when I got word yesterday that the arts council of Baton Rouge is planning on making their own film festival next year after meeting with the Cinema Club to see how we formed our own.
It seems that the state is moving forward with their own film initiative while all the little kids with their parent’s video cameras have been left at LSU where no one takes them seriously.
The Cinema Club is currently planning to hold Outhouse 5 in April and needs significant support from the community if the work crafted by the students at this University, without film school degrees, will continue to be showcased.
If you would like to learn how to get help in making your own film or would like to help in the planning of the festival then please contact the Cinema Club via their website at www.lsu.edu/student_organizations/cinema/.
For a film school to actually happen at LSU the University needs to hear the united voice of those who want the program. I pray they choose to listen.
Kyle Crane
senior
creative writing
Give me the old Cuffist anyday
I used to look forward to the bi-weekly installments of the Off the Cuff portion of the Reveille. Since the beginning of the fall semester, I have been incredibly disappointed in the content of this section of the paper.
When Ana stopped writing the article, I was hoping they would get someone worthwhile to take her place. Her replacement, Jay Melder, is appalling.
How many fat jokes can you make about yourself? From his first article where he stated that he wished he was a Krispy Kreme donut, it should have been apparent what quality of writing we would see in the future articles. His “poem” this week was absolutely disgusting and tasteless. I had hoped that the Reveille would learn from Ana Byers and put someone in that position that has a good sense of humor and decent writing skills.
I guess I was wrong.
Devon Orgeron
junior
communication studies