Found and Lost: A writer talks about her film
Written by Josh Werre
Carly Wohlers is a senior Communication Studies & Theatre and Media Studies major from Morris, Minnesota. Last March she collaborated with the Coo Cinema Club to produce her original short film, “Found and Lost”. The film not only acted as Wohler’s culminating senior theatre project, but it also gave her the opportunity to do what she loves– filmmaking.
Q. Why did you decide to make a short film for your senior project?
A. [I]t has always been my dream to act in film. I love stage acting, but I’ve always wanted to do film… and I just thought it would be a different thing to do for my senior project because most people do plays.
Q. What is the movie about?
A. It is about a girl who finds a journal at a thrift store… she falls in love with the guy who wrote it, and she goes on a journey trying to find him.
Q. Where did the idea for the story come from?
A. I was asking my mom and sister for ideas because I couldn’t figure out anything, so I was hoping they would give me an idea and then something else would spark. I had mentioned something about journaling because I really like to journal. I thought maybe a film about a girl who journals or something. My mom gave me this idea about a girl falling in love with a guy who wrote a journal, and then I kind of just took that and wrote the script.
Q. What was your favorite part of the production process?
A. Just seeing everyone’s creativity come together… It was my film but everyone else put in so much work too, and the collaboration between everyone– I love seeing that.
Q. What was the biggest challenge?
A. I think writing it. It was hard. I never wrote anything like that. That was hard to figure out.
Q. Where can people go to watch the movie?
A. The screening is on Friday, May 13 at 9:15 P.M. in Big Z. I’m not actually sure what we’re going to do with it afterward. I hope to put it on YouTube so then I’ll have it whenever, and then if anybody else wants to see it I can send them the link.
Q. Do you want to work on movies after graduation?
A. That would be the goal. Either acting in them or doing cinematography or background stuff. This summer I actually have an internship with a marketing company but they do films for marketing to small businesses and stuff, and so I’ll be helping with the cinematography on that.
Photos courtesy of Josh Werre
