A Haunting: The Case of the Ghost of Oglethorpe House

4 years ago, back when I had more hair, at the start of my senior year at SCAD, I had a crisis where two thirds of my course schedule vanished right before the quarter started. In a pinch I used my last 2 electives up in one quarter and signed up for life drawing and intro to video.

The final project for intro to video put us in groups. While many of our classmates did experimental videos and music videos, only two groups decided to do narrative videos. They had to be under 8 minutes and we had to split up the role of director, editor, and camera-(wo)man.

So Phil Campbell, a ridiculously talented photographer, took the camera and Angie Crayle took the editing, and I took directing. I banged out a script for our idea, we cast our friends, and a wacky Scooby Doo parody resulted. I got an A on the assignment for production design.

The biggest challenge of all was that SCAD had very strict policies about filming school assignments in the dorms. We had to strip down a room in an apartment and build it up from scratch into the dorm and we had to shoot our one shot of Oglethorpe House from across the street without any of our actors in it. We found a hall in another Savannah building for our hallway and off we went. The video stars Anna Heim as Daisy, Carly Strickland as Vespa, Josh Heinsz as Frank, Isiah Heacox as Iggy, and Kyle Strickland as Old Man Jenkins.

Oddly enough, I'm sharing this because I've just realized that despite it being a rushed project that I threw online for laughs three years ago, it has received 23,000 views! So I guess someone out there thought it was worth sharing.

Read behind the cut to see the video!