{"id":5504,"date":"2024-03-05T20:11:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T20:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=5504"},"modified":"2024-03-05T20:11:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T20:11:49","slug":"students-music-video-enters-international-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/03\/05\/students-music-video-enters-international-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Student&#8217;s music video enters international film festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 Music inspires lots of people, but for film student Christian Bens, there was one song he couldn\u2019t get out of his head.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bens is now a part of an elite group after his film was selected to be in an international film festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI submitted a film called \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QUSLrDbhhMQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Unsteady<\/a>\u2019 and it was a song that my friend showed me maybe about the time I was like 16 or so and just really kind of spoke to me,\u201d said Bens said. &#8220;In car rides I just think about if I wanna make a video out of this.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bens\u2019 film was submitted to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marylandiff.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Maryland International Film Festival<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor Christian, this was his swansong\u201d said Bens\u2019 professor Christopher Stagl. \u201cHe really brought it. Everything was there from the writing, the planning, the preproduction to the expertise of storytelling. You could tell his story was very personal and he was passionate about it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/02\/27\/troy-freshman-avery-padgett-makes-waves-on-bass-fishing-scene\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">OTHER NEWS: Freshman Avery Padgett makes waves on bass fishing scene<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Creating the film was no easy task.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was a lot of back-and-forth driving, I had to stage a lot of like things set up or setting and everything,\u201d Bens explained. \u201cIt\u2019s just a lot of re-getting the correct camera angles and looking back at stuff like that looks good or, no we need to redo this, especially don\u2019t look at the camera.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bens hopes his film is something his audience can relate to.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI really did go in the motion of wanting people to really feel this,\u201d Bens told TrojanVision. \u201cMaybe it was worth it to shed a tear or something.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch Bens&#8217; music video &#8216;Unsteady&#8217; below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Unsteady Music Video by Christian Bens\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QUSLrDbhhMQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. 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