You call Final Destination a safety education film?

After school starts.

"The mid-term review of the directing department's graduation projects will be held this Friday. Please line up in the small screening room in Building 1 on that day to submit the rough cut video and relevant materials for your graduation project. Late submissions will not be accepted. @All members"

The so-called mid-term review is to have students submit their unfinished work to the teacher for a quick look: to see if they took the photos carefully, if they went off-topic, and if they can still submit the work smoothly.

After a moment's thought, Lin Ye decided to submit the finished film directly. He had already completed all the post-production work during the period following the filming.

As for the reason, we have to mention the screening of graduation projects.

The screening of graduation projects is divided into two parts: online screening and offline screening.

During the online screenings, directing graduates will also defend their theses. The final selection for the offline screenings will be based on a weighted average of the defense scores and the number of votes received during the online screenings.

After submitting a complete work, it can be screened online directly on the school's official website, which is a significant advantage given the voting system.

With so many votes rigged every year, Lin Ye really wasn't confident he could beat them.

Since I promised Song Ruoxi, I should try my best to get a spot in an offline screening.

Friday.

Lin Ye was queuing outside the screening room with his USB drive.

"I think the content I filmed is a bit off-topic. I hope the reviewers won't mark it in red."

What happens if it's highlighted in red?

"It's highly likely that graduation will be delayed."

A commotion broke out in the line, and some students looked tense.

Jian Ping nudged Lin Ye with his elbow and asked with a wink, "Brother Lin, your graduation project should be fine, right?"

"Absolutely perfect."

"As expected of you." Jian Ping gave a thumbs up.

"How's your graduation project going?"

"I just finished the rough cut. I'll probably get a scolding, but it won't have a big impact. It'll probably just be some minor issues that need to be fixed."

The two chuckled and continued to play on their phones to kill time.

After waiting for a while, it was finally Lin Ye's turn.

Lin Ye pushed open the door and entered. Three examiners were sitting in the room, with a computer on the table. The examiner in the middle waved to Lin Ye to hand over the USB drive.

"What is the topic of your graduation project?" the chief examiner asked in a flat tone.

Lin Ye quickly stepped forward and handed over the USB drive: "Hello, teacher. My graduation project is about food."

"A food theme?" The teacher next to me, who was looking down at her documents, suddenly looked up. "How much of your theme is allocated to food? You're not just using food as a starting point for the story, are you?"

The theme of "food" has appeared in previous graduation projects, but students often neglect this theme and focus only on shooting human stories.

"It's not a prelude." Lin Ye sat down on a chair on the side of the room. "The food in my graduation project is mainly used to develop the characters and drive the plot."

The reviewers immediately became interested, turned off the lights, and began playing the video submitted by Lin Ye.

The video is forty minutes long.

The presiding judge noticed this and frowned slightly, then picked up a pen and wrote it down on a piece of paper.

Normal graduation projects don't take this long. He subconsciously thought that Lin Ye's submitted work hadn't done a good job of selection, and that it probably contained a lot of drawn-out plot content.

[In the film's opening scene, Will, played by Lin Ye, solves a crime by using profiling to understand the killer's perspective at a crime scene.]

A few minutes later, the three examiners looked at each other in bewilderment.

The teacher next to him looked puzzled, but he didn't say anything. He just moved his lips and silently made the shape of "delicious food" to express his question.

The presiding judge sitting in the middle also seemed a little puzzled, but he simply shook his head slightly, indicating to the two of them to be patient and watch for a while longer.

As the plot unfolds, with its standard suspenseful crime film content, the three censors' expressions grow increasingly bewildered.

The video was 40 minutes long, and the topic of "food" had not appeared for more than 20 minutes. In their opinion, this deviation from the topic was a serious problem.

Soon, the plot reached a crucial juncture.

"She has multiple stab wounds that look like they were inflicted by deer antlers, but I don't think it was done by a deer," the female anatomist said, frowning in confusion.

"She was hung on the antlers," Will said calmly, and several anatomists looked up at him simultaneously.

"Like a hook," Will said expressionlessly. "She might have been bled out before."

"Her liver has been removed," another autopsy surgeon suddenly spoke, showing the victim's wounds in front of everyone. "See? He took the liver out and then put it back in."

"If he's going to sew it back up, why bother taking it out in the first place?"

Will's face was tense, and his eyes blinked uncontrollably a few times from straining: "Because there's a problem with the meat."

"She has liver cancer," an autopsy doctor remarked.

The group exchanged glances, and after a moment, Will, with a solemn expression, slowly said:

"He eats people."

This is a graduation project with a food theme.

Food... cannibalism...

The chief judge, who had seen countless films, realized something. He suddenly paused, his eyes widened, and his hand holding the pen hung in mid-air.

As the aria from the Goldberg Variations begins, Jiang Feng, playing Hannibal Lecter, slowly appears on screen.

[In the scene, Hannibal is elegantly enjoying his meal, completely enveloped in darkness...]

Twenty minutes later, the video finished playing.

An eerie silence fell over the screening room.

The presiding judge, in particular, frowned and stared blankly, as if lost in thought.

Lin Ye got up and walked to the three reviewing teachers, waiting for their review comments.

After a few dozen seconds, the presiding judge slowly began to speak:

"At first, when I saw that the video was over forty minutes long, I thought you had submitted a half-finished product. I didn't expect you to give me such a big surprise."

"Your graduation project is quite good. The combination of food and violent aesthetics is very subversive and plays a crucial role in the story."

"The camera work, visuals, and color tones are all very sophisticated, and the narrative pacing is excellent. There's not much I can do to give you guidance."

"Thank you for your recognition, teacher."

"Your story isn't finished yet, is it? I think there are still quite a few foreshadowing elements left."

"I wrote a TV series script, and my graduation project is the beginning of it."

The teachers were taken aback by the reply, exchanged glances, shook their heads with smiles, and said things like "the younger generation is truly formidable."

The other two reviewers also expressed high praise for Lin Ye's graduation project.

"Your graduation project video can be submitted directly to the online screening. I'll give you an approval slip; just take it to Minister Sun of the school's publicity department."

Lin Ye bowed in thanks, took the USB drive and approval slip from the presiding teacher, and quickly left the screening room.