When Tristan Upp starts the process of writing a film script, he always starts with the moral of the story, typically one based on his own life experiences.
“I feel like that’s the core of a movie, and everything else is just built around that,” said Upp, a screenwriting student in Missouri State University’s Masters of Fine Arts program and aspiring movie director.
Upp looked to the experiences he and his fiancée, Megan, have had in college as one of the many sources of inspiration for his next movie, called “Mr. Mystery” — a comedy piece about a college couple heading into their final year of college who get framed for a string of party-throwing mysteries around town and are forced to hire a private investigator named Mr. Mystery…