Weeks before Flashpoint Academy officially opens next month, new students helped produce their first film, an 8-minute short that academic dean Paula Froehle says “turned out beautifully”?in more ways than one.
The five-day shoot was actually a test run for Froehle’s innovative “immersive learning” concept of how best to teach film production.
And, like the film, it was deemed successful.
Froehle says her idea of interactive production and instruction has never been done before, based on her own experience as a tenured college professor and distinguished filmmaker.
As a teacher Froehle said she could only take a student to a certain point of understanding, and that’s all well and good. “But there is nothing like the experience of being on a real set to learn,” she said.
Confident that Froehle’s concept would be a strong testament to what makes the school unique, Flashpoint President/CEO Howard A. Tullman budgeted $65,000 for production and was executive producer of the short.
Froehle wrote and directed “The Collector,” a story about the obsession of collecting things to stop the passage of time, based on a short story by Jonathan Lethem.
