by EMILY DUNN
Intern Lifestyles Reporter

Lights, camera, action!

Morgan J. Stewart, sophomore undeclared major, teamed with three other co-writers and directors and decided to make a film.

“Spectrum,” is about a drug called “Red Eye,” a hallucinogen.

The word “spectrum” in the title comes from each writer’s section having a different color specification.

There are six segments: black, yellow, red, green, blue and white.

The movie follows the drug in different segments, each written by a different person.

It begins with the drugs’ creation, followed by a shipment reaching a dealer, that dealer beginning to sell it, the effects it’s having on various users, the repercussions of it, the dealer’s acceptance of the affect he’s had on his friends and their friends and families. 

“When we first came up with the concept, we were simply writing a story that somehow took the color and made it relate to the story in the film,” Stewart said. “For example, blue takes place at the ocean, while red is about lust and desire.”

After starting the script with co-writer and director Jason B. Edwards, sophomore undeclared major, the two decided they needed a couple more hands on deck.

Luke A. Taylor, senior social work major, and S. Blake Ervin, senior theatre major helped as well.

In the beginning steps of writing the script, each writer had a different story line or segment of the script.

Over time, the writers took the stories and used the same characters and locations to make it all link up into one unified story.

While Taylor joined the team to get experience writing for a different medium than he’s used to, Stewart has a little bit more in mind.

“My goal is simply to grow both as a story-teller and a film-maker,” Stewart said. “I want to succeed, [but] that’s a little selfish, ain’t it?”

Being students, those involved are working on a very tight budget.

They do not see this as a hindrance, however.

“I guess what we’re [trying] to do is make movies with an extremely low budget that doesn’t feel like something a bunch of teenagers did just for laughs,” Edwards said. “We came up with this term the other day that I’m quite attached to: lo-fi film making.”

The students intend on shooting when they can by working around all the schedules of those involved.

When “Spectrum” is released, it is intended to be released via Internet.

“We hope to release it to the largest, most receiving audience of all,” Edwards said. “Which isn’t to say that we would pass up the chance to display it somewhere else. Which is to say, anywhere else.”

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