Students may have noticed many fliers around the school with a QR Code saying Earwigs Auditions. Many were put up in rows and students questioned what it was about or if it was real. In the end, it was students in the Adobe 2 class who were looking for people to audition for their play. The project is to make an eight to ten minute video using a prompt they had created earlier.
Junior Remas Hajibek, senior Charlie Halkuff, sophomore Eternity Hill, junior Posey Pelsue and sophomore Adelyn Rabil are on the Earwigs team. They were assigned to make prompts based in a high school, and they chose a story about a brother and sister who are trying to save their school from a possessed bug.
“So it’s about this girl named Carrie and her brother Micheal. They’re in a school, and they’re trying to figure out what’s going on because there’s this bug that is possessing people. It’s a literal earwig… and it’s making people act all weird and Carrie and Micheal are trying to escape it,” said Rabil.
Halkuff just wanted to write about the scariest bug in their mind, which is good for a horror thriller story. Earwigs have pincher claws and have a myth that they crawl into people’s ears while they sleep. They are harmless but still creepy.
“I just put the worst bug I could think of and that’s what we named it after… We took each other’s prompts and then expanded them to decide what genre it would be and gave it some more depth,” said Halkuff.
The Earwigs team really likes the sibling relationship with Micheal and Carrie. Micheal cares a lot about his little sister and Carrie also tries to protect him.
“[My favorite character] is Carrie because I’ve noticed that she takes care of her brother and then her brother is taking care of her,” said Hajibek
The Earwigs team needs people to play the characters or be in the background. They want the story to seem natural, but it’s difficult because most students have to stay in their first period. Rabil hopes to be an actor, and even though she is on the team, she’s auditioning to be Carrie.
They are still figuring out how it works. They currently have a shot list of 200 scenes they need to film. They plan to have a lot of sound bites to make the story more scary.
“Charlie is genuinely really good at this kind of stuff. I honestly didn’t expect it,” Rabil said.
Auditions take place May 13, but can go on until Friday, May 15, if one can not make it that day. If you are interested in auditioning, click here.
