Film Student is breathing life into the world of entertainment

Final major projects can feel like the end of the world.

One student at Coventry University has taken the traditionally taboo theme of death and redefined a perspective on it.

Louis Chiappani, himself.

Louis Chiappani, a third-year Film Production student, said he “wanted to show that people can earn second chances”

Shots from the production phase of filming.

When describing his piece, Louis said,

“It's a short comedy film, it's called The Heaven Trials. “

“Basically, it follows a guy who dies. Pretty morbid. When he wakes up, he's in a void-like space, and then death appears to him, but not in his typical kind of clothing or how you expect him to appear. He's more casual, and he basically tells him, ‘ Oh, you can live again if you face me in a bunch of ludicrous games and win them all’ ”

From the experience louis said that the most rewarding part of the project was being able to do his own thing and not just be a part of someone else’s project, but to actually persevere and learn.

Sanna Whicks.

Louis’ lecturer, Sanna Whicks, an Assistant Professor and Course Director for the Film Production course, commented on his project, “I think that it's his particular talent to create narrative storytelling. There are some quite interesting themes about death and bringing comedy into it and not going with the typical stereotypes but changing things around, so that was really interesting and exciting about the project”

Speaking generally about the particular module, she said, “It's a full and dedicated module for the film students. They actually spend a whole semester in the autumn planning, preparing pre-production and researching for this module, and then this semester they go out and produce a film. I mean, we do that across the three years of the course, but this is more of a major project, so it's more substantial. It's really important for the students, sometimes it ends up being their calling card when they leave university to go into the industry”

Louis’ team working on the production of the final major project.

Overall, it seems that it is invaluable to both student and lecturer that opportunities like this can be facilitated for the generations of students to come.

In a modern day when things can seem quite bleak, it can be reassuring to see that creative minds are still bringing their art and entertainment to the gloomy, void-like space we call reality.