SEQUIM — Senior Amy McAndie is Sequim High School’s only student filmmaker to have participated in Sequim High School’s Student Film Festival since it was founded in 2006, and she’s not in it for the art.
“I’m in it just to have fun,” Amy admitted, and her light-hearted attitude toward film seems to have rubbed off on her film team members.
Amy was an eighth-grader when she started filming and editing, and since then has taken on her ninth-grade sister, Megan, as a film partner, with her sister’s freshman friend Danyelle Wilson joining the crew as camera girl.
Together, they produced the 3½-minute comedy “No Title,” a movie about making a movie.
The film, which will be presented at the sixth annual Student Film Festival on Friday is described in the program as “two sisters trying to decide what type of movie to make.”
“Their film is about trying to get just the right subject for making their movie,” the program says.
“However, after all these years, Amy is struggling for a title and subject.”
Amy doubts she will be hunting for a title or subject much longer.
In real life, she’s interested in entering a more stable profession — nursing — which she said she plans to study beginning at Peninsula College after graduating this year.
She sees her film skills as coming in handy someday to produce great family home movies.
Wilson learned her filming angles this year behind the Flip pocket camera, which most of the students use to film their creations.
“I was staying at their house, and we were brainstorming, so they had me film it,” she said.
“It was spur of the moment. It was really fun.”
Megan said that, with Amy graduating, she and Wilson will continue to participate in the film festival.
“I’ve always helped out in the background,” Megan said, adding that now, she can get fully involved next year.
Amy said the festival has allowed her to refine her filming and editing skills since 2006, when larger cameras were used and computer film editing was more difficult to master.
“The first one was just awful,” Amy recalled. “It was shaky, and we had a real bad actor.”
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Sequim-Dungeness Valley Editor Jeff Chew can be reached at 360-681-2391 or at jeff.chew@peninsuladailynews.com.