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Mass Comm. prof. includes WSSU students, campus for his first horror film
Photo courtesy of Doug Osman
During a scene from “Consumption,” cast members look on, as WSSU graduate
Darryl “D.J.” Davis hangs upside down.
Two of the first steps in the
process of producing a movie
are finding locations and find
ing actors.
Doug Osman, an assistant
professor in the Mass
Communications Department,
shot his first horror movie,
"Consumption" late this sum
mer The short film follows
the life of a young street kid
named Jack, played by
Chester See of Disney 365
fame, who becomes the
"familiar" for a family of vam
pires.
Osman said his movie has
been in the making for about a
year. He developed the story,
wrote the 30-page screenplay.
directed and produced the
film.
"Consumption" started pro
duction in February and was
shot entirely in Winston-
Salem. Some scenes were
recorded at Osman's house,
O'Kelly Library, and
Foundation Heights' dorm
hallways, but the majority of
the film was shot at Davis
Garage, located beside the
Elva J. Jones Computer
Science building.
"When you drive by it
[Davis Garage] you wouldn't
know, but beneath what you
see are two levels of base
ments, and they're pretty
much unused," Osman said.
"A lot of it is boarded up,
broken windows, storage. It
looks like a haunted house.
It's very, very scary."
He called on a handful of
current and former Winston-
Salem State students to be
involved with the movie.
"You really try to bring peo
ple on board, actors, who are
willing to work really long
days," Osman said.
"We were really fortunate.
The local actors were all great.
They jumped on the chance to
be involved."
Some of the Rams on the
project include Antonio de
Graffenreaidt, Crystal
Winston, and May 2009 gradu
ate Darryl "D.J." Davis.
Winston served as the film's
producer; de Graffenreaidt
and Davis were actors.
"He [Davis] started taking
some acting classes," Osman
said. "[He] kept bugging me.
He wanted to be involved,
and he is a good guy.
Tony is one of the best
actors I've ever met at the col
lege level."
Osman saw a performance
by de Graffenreaidt, a senior
majoring in Interdisciplinary
Studies with a concentration
in Theater/Film and he said
he was very impressed with
de Graffenreaidt's acting abil
ity
"Osman told me that he was
doing a film this summer and
that he specifically wrote a
part [Tony, Jack's best friend]
for me," de Graffenreaidt said.
This was the first horror
movie de Graffenreaidt acted
in, and he said he had never
worked around this much
blood.
"It was real comfortable to
play this part," de
Graffenreaidt said. "It was
very fun to do. I want to do a
couple more horror movies."
Osman said he has familiarity
in working with Winston.
She has been a producer in
an Electronic Practicum class
taught by him as well as a
producer for "Face to Face" on
RAM-TV 21, where she is the
station manager "Crystal,
she's amazing, very organ
ized, very productive. I
Horror
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