We have entered ‘Remember’ in the short film competition on the Film Nation website.
Please have a watch, and if you think it deserves your vote, please click ‘I like this’ to vote for it.
Thank you so much!
Rumena & the NUFilm Productions crew
(click here to see the film on the Film Nation website)
After screening the rough cut of The Actor, it became clear that our tutors weren’t happy with the film. While the other groups had given us some positive and supportive feedback, and had commented on things that didn’t work but could (relatively easily) be fixed and improved, the tutors didn’t share this opinion. I was the only person in the group that didn’t quite agree with the tutors – I insisted The Actor was good enough and could be fixed. Now I realise the film may have been good enough technically, but it lacks something very important – a soul.
So while we were in our group–tutor meeting, the main suggestion was to keep the same concept for the film, but change the location and cast, and maybe rewrite some of the story. Work with one character, use the location as a character, and make a simple but effective film. I was initially resisting – I couldn’t see ‘a guy in a pub’ (an idea Ross Varney suggested) as a legitimate concept, I couldn’t see how we could make it in such a short time (less than a week), and I absolutely couldn’t see how it may be better than the result of our 8-week efforts.
Thankfully, the group stepped up after the meeting. We initiated a big discussion on our Facebook group, talking honestly about what was good and bad in the group, what had gone wrong with the production of The Actor, and what we really wanted out of this short film project… After the big argument, two things became clear: we had disappointed ourselves, and it was time to make NUFilm Productions proud.
Ever since I chose the Short Film module, I knew what I wanted out of it – I wanted to try and challenge myself. I wanted to Lead a team of people, and I wanted to Direct a film.
I have never really been a leader in my life. I am a driver, I make things happen, but usually it’s all individual engagement, so I don’t think that’s anywhere as near as being a group leader. I knew from previous projects that I always had a strong opinion, and I’d often tried to persuade people in groups I’d been part of to follow it. There are two main problems with that:
