Jim Fetzer and Matt Newcomb don’t think they are artists; they barely see themselves as filmmakers.

Fetzer, senior in journalism and mass communication, and Newcomb, senior in computer engineering, think they are just students with dreams and cameras.

“Personally, I don’t really consider myself an ‘aspiring filmmaker,'” Fetzer says.

“If anything, I am just a guy who likes getting together with his pals with a camera and making something that would be fun to look at at a party or something like that. I don’t know if I will ever become a true filmmaker, but I can at least say I have done something with a camera,” he says.

Newcomb’s love of filmmaking also started as a way to have fun with his friends.

“My passion for filmmaking started in high school when my friends and I would make short movies for fun,” Newcomb says. “We would just come up with an idea for a movie and shoot it. Then we’d put the film up on my Web site, www.talenos.com, and hope poor, unsuspecting fools would actually download them and watch them.”

Newcomb is currently working on a screenplay for a full-length science fiction movie about an arctic research base; he hopes to shoot next fall.

For Fetzer, his passion for films began much younger than Newcomb.

“I guess I have been into movies my whole life,” Fetzer says. “But I think when I saw ‘Clerks’ for the first time was when I thought to myself, ‘why not, could be fun.’ If anything, it’s something for me to do with my free time.”

Last year, Fetzer did two shorts for a journalism class, which gave him the drive to make some of his own films.

The first piece he made was “They Fight For Freedom.” Fetzer calls it a conversation piece about pulp culture, particularly GI Joe and the then-pending war in Iraq.

The second production was called “Love and Bullets,” which Fetzer says was his attempt at creating an action story with some romance.

“We just got done filming a part one of a series of shorts called ‘CONTAMINATED,'” Fetzer says, “It is centered around a woman who was experimented on by a military research company and now is trying to find clues to her past as well as her friend. It’s kind of like ‘Resident Evil’ meets ‘Metal Gear Solid.'”

Both Newcomb and Fetzer enjoy the creative aspect of filmmaking.

“I enjoy making films because it is sort of my creative outlet for things,” Newcomb says. “It’s great to see your idea start in your head and follow it through the whole process until it’s a completed film.”

Fetzer agrees.

“It’s just fun to me that I can sit in front of my computer, type up a story in my head, see if anyone thinks it’s cool,” Fetzer says. “Within two weeks I can be behind a camera or in front of it, putting what I wrote to life.”

Newcomb says his favorite aspect of making a film is seeing people’s reactions.

“When you see them jump in their seats or laugh at your jokes,” Newcomb says, “it’s a great feeling.”