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 - Well, it’s a horror movie, says Marie Græsholm, student at Performers House but these days an actress at Odder Hojskole.
That must be the explanation why Louise Schmidt Espersen, also from Performers House, has been seen running around the school all dressed in white and with big staring eyes, most of last night.
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Marie Græsholm studying the story-board for "Know Your Friends".
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Horror-movies aren’t exactly meant to make people yawn – or so I believe, it’s not really my kind of movies. But on Odder Hojskole this day, a good many students are yawning - not from seeing, but from making a horror-movie. Filming “Know Your Friends” went on until around six this morning.
Harassed by a white lady
 Marie, Louise and Nathalie Rasmusson from Theatre Line played the parts of three high school friends having a weird experience. When Louise has not shown up for two days, the others go out to look for her – and suddenly they find themselves tumbling around in a completely darkened school being harassed by a scary white lady-figure.
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Recording in the sound-studio. Martin Pedersen, Odder Hojskole and Nathalie Rasmussen. | - It was quite scary actually to run around the crooked narrow hallways of this school in the middle of the night, says Marie. She tries to explain the plot of the movie from a storyboard standing in the classroom.
The team behind the camera is made up by students at the Film & TV-production line of Odder Hojskole. Director Mikael Brink Frederiksen is a former student at Performers House Theatre and Ensemble lines.
 - I just love horror-movies, best of all the Asian ones, as American shock-effects don’t seem to work on me anymore. The Asians are much better at building up tension in the films.
- I just had this idea for the story and for some effects – and some of them showed up not to work at night because of reflections in the windows. I just wanted to see if I could make a film that could frighten people – I mean, can it really be that difficult?
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- I just wanted to see if I could make a film that could frighten peoples, says Mikael Brink Frederiksen (in front). Photo by Ditte Viereck Vestergaard.
| Hours of editing ahead
- We still need to take a few scenes – but only scenes without actors, Mikael explains.
- Then it’ll be me and our producer, Ditte Viereck Vestergaard, who will do the work of editing the film. I find it confusing to be more than two people editing.
The students will have to use both lessons and leisure time to finish the editing which Mikael expects to last for many hours.
- We have approximately 75 minutes of recorded tape and luckily we have made good notes about which scenes we can use. It’s going to be fine … it’s 'nerd work', and I love that!
- Directing, writing the manuscript and editing, those are the three parts of making a movie that really interests me.
On October 30th all of the students at Performers House are invited to see the films and meet with the students and teachers of Odder Hojskole.
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