Welcome back. This is part two of my look at the short student films during the 33rd running of the student show at Dutchess Community College in New York. It is a show that I was once a part of, many years ago. It was a fun night that saw the good, the bad, and the ugly. Without further adieu, lets get to it.

Com 234: This collection is a sampling of the projects that were recorded in the sound studio on the campus. The quality of the content varies wildly; some of the tunes just were not all that good, while others were quite interesting, however the recording quality tended to be quite good overall. Here is a listing of the songs sampled:

• "Go Console Yourself"
• "See You Next Tuesday"
• "Soundtrack for Marriage Video"
• "An Eventful Night"
• "The Return"
• "Wicked Lover"

Com 233: Sound Design for Animations Created in Art 162. This series of animations were quite good, not so much for the content, which was politically oriented for about half the time, but for the strong sound design. The effects and editing were quite good, often times ingenious.

The second portion of this section consisted of snips of radio dramas that the students produced. Now, we may have only gotten brief bits, but they were all well done and were good enough for me to be interested in the full pieces. The titles are:

• Seeds of Deceit
• Hippies Gone Wild
• Unlikely Turn of Events

Com 211:

Plucking a Rose. I do not recall the title, although I think I know what film this is. My apologies in advance if I got the title mixed with something else. The majority of this lengthy piece takes place at a dinner table over the span of a number of days. The parents argue about money and their son. It appears that they are undertakers, and are pleased about a serial murderer giving them plenty of business. It turns out that the son is involved and it is changing him, manifested physically by a drastic change in appearance. The film has a weird feel as the faces have all been digitally processed and have an odd, glassy/bug-eyed look to them.

Com 110:

Gestalt. Not sure what the point of this was. It depicted a young man standing up on a ledge and jumping off, presumably to his death.

Touch the Sound. This one was kind of cool. A girl wakes up and as her foot touches the floor, a piano note is heard. Each step is a note, the sound phenomenon continues with everything she moves from doors to toothpaste to breakfast cereal. There did not seem to be a point to this, but it was cute and well executed.

Pharm Party. This short ties in with the Oxycontin documentary from earlier in the show. It is essentially a PSA on pharm parties. These are parties where teens raid their parents' medicine cabinets and take their loot to a party where the partiers take random pills for whatever high they can get. It is dangerous and parents need to be aware. This was nicely done.