Film Students on Film
For many recent film grads, most of their time at KSC was spent working on Enter to Learn, Go Forth to Serve: the First Hundred Years of Keene State College.
The film, which airs on New Hampshire Public TV at 9 p.m. on Sept. 29 and several other times this fall (see the schedule) , was a grand and serious project, and 80 or so students spent many long hours creating this excellent documentary.
As film studies adjunct faculty member and the film’s co-creator Lance Levesque noted, “We set the standard so high that nothing but perfection was acceptable. That doesn’t just happen; you don’t just go out and take a picture. Some of our shoots were eight hours long, to get one shot with the perfect lighting with no shadows, and the prefect movement with no jittering.”
All those stories of what went on behind the scenes are not lost: Levesque sent two camera crews out during filming-one to shoot the film, and the other to document the work behind the film. “It shows what a serious film student we graduate here-they’re very dedicated, they work very hard, and, from the behind-the-scenes footage, you can see that so many things can go wrong,” Levesque explained. “You can watch the students work through the problems and correct mistakes to get the best footage possible.”
Enter to Learn, Go Forth to Serve: the First Hundred Years of Keene State College premiered at the Colonial Theatre in downtown Keene over Homecoming Weekend last October (2010). Ryan LaLiberty ‘11 offered an insightful review that appeared in Newsline shortly after the event.
