THOMASVILLE — Hollywood, look out!

Members of the School of Motion Picture, Television and Recording Arts at Florida State University graduate program have taken over the local skating rink for two days of filming for student Bryan Yokomi’s short film “Skate Night,” a look at young love set in a skating rink.

Roll-A-Rink owner Doug Slater is an FSU alumnus. He said he was asked by the school to use the facility.

“I thought I should do this,” he said. “It’s actually quite a production. It took them a couple of hours to set everything up, and they even have their own generator.”

Recent FSU graduate Jonathan Giambra, 22, is the star of “Skate Night.” His character, “Ron,” is “an ’80s kind of freak” who is in love with “Jessica,” the girl behind the concessions counter.

“I wear ’80s clothing, and I am trying to get up the courage to ask her to couple skate with me,” said Giambra. “Different things happen, she comes up to me and I freeze. Finally, I get the courage up to ask her, but someone has asked her right before me. I’m very disappointed, and at the end of the night I’m sweeping up and she comes back by herself and asks me to couple skate. Then the deejay plays the music and we couple skate together.”

A while since he’s been on skates, Giambra admitted to some extra rink time in Tallahassee Sunday to loosen himself up for the shoot.

“I caught up a little bit, got sturdy on my feet,” he said.

Gillian Zwick, 22, plays “Jessica,” the love interest. She said she is a volunteer with FSU Film School. She was approached by the director for the part.

“I think it’s a really great piece for Bryan and our generation,” she said. “The ’80s are so humorous. A lot of the dialogue is when he is reciting lyrics from songs from the ’80s. It’s really touching, and it’s really funny. I think it’s perfect for our age bracket.”

Those moments include a Miami vice stunt and a scene where Ron handles a situation dressed as “Rambo,” the action-movie hero.

The only film school to provide students with all equipment and underwrite the cost of all the films, FSU Film School is among the top five in the country, said community liaison Dave Schmeling. He said 95 percent of the graduates are employed in the motion picture industry within one year of graduation.

Of the 3,000 students who apply to the film school each year, he said roughly only one in 10 are chosen, making the number of students enrolled in the program at around 120.

“It’s a very selective process,” said Schmeling. “Only the top students get in, and the school will produce 200 films this year.”

Each student in the school is allowed to write and direct their own project.

“They try and let you have as much input in your work as you can,” said Zwick.

Currently, there are 24 films on schedule for the next two months. Each film takes about two days to shoot. The students work 12-13 hours a day, six days a week.

“They rotate through each other’s films,” said Schmeling. “The director today may be a set designer in somebody else’s film.”

Volunteering as “Walter,” the guy who repairs skates and gives advice to the kids, he had nothing but praise for the students.

“These are the hardest working students you have ever seen,” said Schmeling.

Yokomi was busy directing, but Giambra said the film has a good plot and ideals behind it.

“It broaches the older crowd a little more,” he said. “It’s a nice clean comedy, boy-girl film. I think it’s really cool.”