Student filmmakers during the month leading up to Night of the Stars have begun to appreciate what their professional counterparts go through in the months or years leading up to the release of a movie.

In the 2008 sophomore remake of Forrest Gump, cinematographer Paige Powell, right, takes a break while more pyrotechnical devises are created on set. Tyler Combs, who plays an extra in the following scene, prepares to dig in a foxhole with a group of soldiers.

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