“Violet’s Revenge” Debuts at Concord

Kristen Osborne presents “Violet’s Revenge.” 
Photo Courtesy of Linsdey Akers

When Craig refuses to go out with a girl he doesn’t know, strange things begin to happen to him and his friends that will have deadly consequences. Kristen Osborne debuted her second film with main characters Violet and Craig at Concord University on Monday, April 20, at 7 P.M.

    Osborne is a senior broadcast communications major graduating this May. She is planning to attend Savannah College of Art and Design to study film and television. In her second movie, actors making their appearance on screen included Megan Perdue as Violet, Brady Meadows as Craig, Tanner Alvarez as Jason, Hannah Gates as Emma, and even Osborne herself. She states, “I was short one girl so it was left for me to do.”

    Osborne based a lot of the characters off of the people who played in this film. “I knew that I wanted Brady to be Craig, partially because I needed to use his house, but also [because] I liked his outlook and the way that he spoke on certain things. I casted Tanner Alvarez as Jason because I wrote the role thinking of him, so on with the majority of the actors,” Osborne says.

    Interestingly enough, the story plot came from one small idea that came to her one day. “I had no story line for this. The scene where they’re in ‘Hell’ ... and she’s [Violet] suddenly in front the camera, that was the only thing I had in mind. I was like, ‘Oh, I could make a cool jump-scare out of something like that!’ So the rest of it kind of developed after that.”

    Osborne originally thought of the jump-scare idea at the end of last semester and was determined to make it happen. “There is a lot of stereotypical scary movies where the person is walking in the dark and all of the lights are out and they turn around all of sudden and something is just there and it’s like, ‘Boo!’ That was just kind of what I was going for.”

    She goes on to say, “...We were  working on minimal resources and stuff like that, but I tried to make it as scary but quirky as possible also. Kind of like one of those cheesy horror movies, but no particular film really stood out. It was a mixture of a lot of them.”

    Osborne states that it took a couple of months to complete the film from the idea, writing the script, delivering it, filming, editing and presenting it. When asked about her favorite part of the process she says that “The part that I enjoyed the most was probably the editing of the movie.” This is because Osborne enjoyed seeing her original idea for the jump-scare come to life. Osborne goes on to state, “I also enjoyed the directing part of it. I did enjoy being in charge of the whole production and being able to do exactly what I wanted with it.”

    After the 23-minute film, Osborne had a Q&A session to answer any questions from the crowd. Hanna Wood, student, says that was her favorite part. “One of my favorite parts was probably the Q&A section because you never really get to experience that with films. So I think that’s a very special thing to be able to look at the person who created it and ask questions and understand their way of thinking behind things.”

    Lillian Keys, student, agrees with Osborne’s statement about the scary but quirky movie. “I thought it was really cute. I’m a really big horror movie buff so I was like ‘I don’t know about that,’ but as far as what it was and how she explained it and the fact that she did it all by herself, that was really impressive.”

    Osborne was very pleased with the turnout and the feedback that she received. “One of my professors showed up, gave me some pointers and things that I could correct; however, they were not bad and there were not a lot, so I was happy about that,” she states.

    If anyone missed the show and is interested in seeing it, she will be posting her movie to YouTube within the next week. It can be viewed at “KrissProductions.”