Composed of 13 scenes written by 13 writers and produced by 13 filmmakers, the “Untitled Silent Film Experiment” will premiere at the end. theatre Oct. 31 at 8 p.m.

Seven bands and musicians composed the scores for the scenes and will perform them while 13 artists’ works are displayed during the show. All of the participants are local residents, and the filmmakers are students from the Film and Digital Media Production program. There will be no contact or collaboration between participants until they meet for the first time on Halloween night.

The seed for the idea was planted at a playwriting conference Scott Long, owner of the end. theatre, attended in Alaska, he said. There he was told writers have to figure out how to discard 99 percent of the feedback they are given.

“About three years ago, I was trying to figure out a way to do an experiment to study inspiration,” Long said. “Any group of people see the same thing and become inspired by it, and then you incorporate different mediums to see how inspiration takes place. There’s an analogy about an auto accident — four people see the same thing and walk away with different stories about it. There’s no such thing as truth. There’s just perception.”

The idea for a silent film project took shape after Long contacted Jason Flynn, assistant professor of film and digital media production, as well as Jared McCoy and Patrick Lindsay, the coordinators for Boxcar Voices, a spoken-word poetry group.

The films are short and silent, with no dialogue or special effects. Written and sent in by local writers, the scripts were then sent to local filmmakers, artists, photographers, bands and musicians.

All of the different pieces of the “Untitled Silent Film Experiment” will be put together for the first time on Halloween.

“The art and the music don’t so much complement the film as the film, the art and the music all complement the text,” Lindsay said.

McCoy is one of the 13 scriptwriters.

“The way I wrote [my script] and the way I told other people, was to think of it almost more like stage directions, since it was going to be translated into a film medium,” he said. “The basic concept of describing the vision in your head clearly was more of the emphasis when it came to getting the stories down on paper, as opposed to having any kind of literary aspect to it. It does make me a little apprehensive, because it is something that has come from me — it’s like a child and I’m letting someone else take care of it.”

Luke Hunter, lead singer and guitar player of the local band Cheap Thrill DeVille, described the score and the film as two independent art forms influenced by the original source.

“It’s interesting, as my group will be playing and we have two scripts that we’re working with,” Hunter said. “I got two different scripts, and one of them I get clear as day what the author was going for. I feel the same vibe, and I can go to that so easily and try to encapsulate what’s she doing.

“The other script, I’m having to try to reach to figure out what he’s doing and I want to be able to, and I am going to, create a beautiful piece to go with that. But it’s more difficult and therefore I’m nervous of what he will think, trying to capture what he’s trying to do when I’m not entirely clear what that is.”