By the Light of the Mune

In the end, hitting marks and modulating your voice to a pitch ... it’s just technical stuff, you can learn it. Anyone can do it. An actor gets very good at it very quickly. What is difficult [to do] is to bring along the sense that at any time they could do anything at all.

– Ian Mune on inspiring students

I originally shot this project with a rather cheap VHS camera slung over my shoulder. The quality was really terrible. The students did really well. They did some lovely scenes, and that was why I wanted to do it again, to do it properly. I also wanted them to be up against the demands of a professional crew rather than an indulgent teacher. 

– Acting teacher Ian Mune, introducing the short film project

When they go out there tomorrow, they'll be up facing a real camera crew and they'll have to cut the mustard. And it will be very difficult for them because they're lacking a lot of the usual supports, like a solid script. My job is to pull 'em back on track again.

– Acting teacher Ian Mune describes the challenge his students will face working with a professional crew

It's sort of funny, starting and stopping all the time. You get yourself to a point where you think you're gonna get a bit of emotion, and they say, "Cut... you weren't standing in the right place". 

– Drama student Lily Schmidt, on acting for the camera

You speak the truth or you over-speak the truth. Or you tell lies. Dramatically, you speak the truth... it should work, if you're an attractive person! But if you overstate it, it becomes melodrama. If you tell lies, then it's just bad acting.

– Ian Mune, on acting convincingly