Lights, camera, action!

Film students assist in production of professional period film

Fourteen students of the communication department spent two weeks of their summer vacation working closely with costumes, cameras, and a clapperboard. The group was working alongside eighteen film professionals, including talent and crew, on the set of a short film produced by the WWU Center for Media Ministry (CMM).

Set in 1909 and centered on a message of hope, the project was written by Josie Henderson, a 2015 and 2020 alumna, and is considered a proof of concept in hopes of being developed into a series.

The project also served as an excellent educational tool to expose students to a professional film set, provide hands-on experience, and help them build their filmmaking portfolios. This is one of three film projects that received funding through CMM to be produced over the next year.

Learn more about the Center and film program at wallawalla.edu/commlang.