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Georgia Southern filmmakers explore new depths
Summer intensive class at Georgia Southern films action movie in Tennessee caverns
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Madison Reynolds, center, and other crew members for "Relics of the Madre Vena" shoot footage in the green room on Georgia Southern's campus. The green room is used to create scenes too dangerous for an actor to shoot in real life, such as falling off a waterfall or escaping a cave-in. - photo by Special
Most summer classes do not require students to don hard hats and protective padding for course credit, nor do they hold “classes” 200 feet underground. But the students of Jason Knowles’ Multimedia and Film Production summer intensive class at Georgia Southern University have found themselves in that situation twice since the beginning of June. As part of Knowles’ ambitious summer project — completing a feature-length action-adventure film before the beginning of August — the students and a small cast spent several days filming the feature’s climax deep in the caverns of Raccoon Mountain in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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