Lance Pototschnik knows the difficulties of finding a steady job as a graduate, but with his new film project, some students may get the exposure they want.

Pototschnik, a recent graduate of McDaniel College in Maryland and author of a screenplay entitled "Quarter-Life Crisis," will visit Penn State tomorrow to audition students for a role in his film.

Davey Rockwell, president of the Penn State Student Film Organization, said Potoschnik will set up at the Pollock Road entrance of the HUB-Robeson Center and from 10:30 a.m. to about 3 p.m on Tuesday.

Pototschnik, who has recently been traveling to different college campuses for auditions, said he felt that auditioning undergraduates was a great way to find a large number of enthusiastic participants.

"Colleges are the greatest concentration of people that I'd want to see in a movie," he said. "They're most likely to try out for this because they are not jaded yet. They still have dreams."

After graduating from college in 2008 with an English degree, Potoschnik had difficulty finding employment and decided to fall back on an idea for a movie he had been "kicking around" for a while. He said he read sample screenplays to aid in his writing.

Luke Pototschnik, Lance's brother who is assisting him in the marketing and production of the screenplay, said the script's plot follows four young men who have just

graduated college and are trying to find

jobs in today's rough economy.

"It's a buddy film about different stages of transitioning," Lance Pototschnik said, adding that the film's characters deal with issues of unemployment, marriage and applying to graduate school.

The film is still in the early stages -- Lance Pototschnik plans to film student auditions and create Internet clips to get media companies interested. He's also considering packaging the film with footage of his process that would act as a documentary about making the movie.

Rockwell (senior-film) said that this type of visit doesn't happen often at Penn State.

"This is pretty rare," Rockwell said. "I don't remember anything like this happening for us."

He's skeptical of Pototschnik's level of experience, but he's curious to see how it works out. Pototschnik said he hopes different types of people try out, not just those involved with filmmaking.

"We're not giving off the vibe where you have to be an acting student," he said. "There are a lot of parts for people -- all kinds of people."