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Verb; to take the place of by or as if by force.
April 8th, 2026 (class premiere)
April 15th, 2026 (director's cut)
When Dave and Maria struggle to study for their exams, Maria builds a body-swapping device to allow them to take them for one another, and uses it on Dave without him realizing. After use, they realize the machine has broken in the process, leaving them seemingly stuck as one another.
Status: Available
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Cast & Crew
Director
Logan Bauer
1st Assistant Director / Associate Producer
Ella Edwards
Director of Photography / 1st Assistant Camera
Julia Bailey
1st Assistant Camera / Grip
Lucian Mooney
2nd Assistant Camera / Gaffer / Assistant Editor
Hanna Richmond
Sound Mixer / Editor
Gabrielle Jethrow
Cast
Chadwick Holmes as Dave
Vanessa Foreman as Maria
Original Score
Theo Hawk
Location
Gabrielle Jethrow
Prop Design
Logan Bauer
Karis Bauer
Josh Plumley
Director's Cut Editor
Logan Bauer
Director's Cut Color Department
Jolie Kingrey
Logan Bauer
Griffin Alexander
Tyler King
Owen MacKendrick
Runtime: ≈ 3 minutes
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Made using Adobe Premiere Pro 2026 on Macbook Pro. Shot on Black Magic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K + Meike Primes with H4N Mixer - Zoom sound equipment and Generay Torpedo lighting equipment. Colored using DaVinci Resolve.
© 2026 L.A.B. Productions. All rights reserved.
© 2026 Team Three. All rights reserved.
© 2026 individual filmmakers. All rights reserved.
© 2026 LAB Media. All rights reserved.
Gallery
The film's poster, which can also be viewed upside-down and still retains all information
The thumbnail for the film
L.A.B. Productions (L.A.B. Product10ns) intro
L.A.B. Productions presents
A Logan Bauer film
Chadwick Holmes and Vanessa Foreman in...
Title card
Showing off the machine
Wiring up Dave
Dave's Mii in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream on Nintendo Switch 2
Maria gets ready
He's wired in
"You'll be me and I'll be you...?"
Maria waits for Dave to awake
Shock!
Maria is delighted!
Looking down at the device...
It broke!
Nervous smile
Reawaking
"Hey...?"
"Hey...?"
Western stand-off
Confusion
More confusion
"Oh for God's sake Dave!"
The ash pile, containing Dave
Goodbye Dave
The usurpation device
Dave
Maria
The Switch 2
The ash pile
The broken device
Headphones
L.A.B.
Logan Bauer, Jolie Kingrey, Griffin Alexander and Karis Bauer (on phone)
Dead horse
Copyright
L.A.B. Productions
Slate (class version)
Title card (class version)
Transition (class version)
Color grade A (class version)
Color grade B (class version)
Behind-the-Scenes Gallery
For more, see the Bloopers | Film Set Production page.
Dr. Evil posing by Jolie and Griffin
Doom and gloom
More doom and gloom
Ultimate doom and gloom
The crew on set
Turn that smile upside-down
Gabby with sound 2
More
Vaccuuming pepper
Preparing the looking shot
Talent
Going for the looking shot
Looking at the ash pile
With boom
More of that
It was a lot of pepper
Chadwick screaming for voiceover
Before set; Logan Bauer and Jolie Kingrey match in Women in Film club merch
Photo of Chadwick used for branding
Photo of Vanessa used for branding
Outdated version of the poster that says Ohio University School of Film
Upside down poster
Instagram-formatted version of the poster
Instagram-formatted version of the poster (upside down)
Illustrations from the poster of Dave and Maria
Credits drawings
Logo
Poster background
Two color slide
Image poking fun at Liam Delaney's film which debuted the same day, titled A Grave Price (2026).
The light levels we're dealing with here
Spript
Written by Logan Bauer
Storyboards
Made by Logan Bauer
Hour-by-Hour
Made by Ella Edwards
Call Sheet
Made by Ella Edwards
Script Supe
Made by Ella Edwards
Lined Spript
Made by Logan Bauer for the edit
Notes
Made by Logan Bauer
Shotlist
Made by Julia Bailey
Overheads
Made by Julia Bailey
Trivia
The film was shot 6:30pm to 12:30am on April 2nd into April 3rd; from Holy Thursday into Good Friday.
Filming took the entire allotted 6 hour period, down to the second.
At one point during the shoot, the crew was an hour and a half behind schedule, according to Ella Edwards.
The film was put onto Letterboxd without asking.
The film was released digitally the day prior to Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream, which came out April 16th, 2026. The footage was obtained using the game's demo.
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