The Collector - WW1 short film
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Some risks are worth taking.
1917 France. With every death a British sniper inflicts he risks everything to make a strange inventory to those he has killed. But the strain of war and haunting images of his wife merge to torment him.
Starring Beth Winslet and Alex King.
Produced in 2005 I've finally decided to make this film fully online.
This is a rather basic transfer to a digital file, but for more information go to www.goodguysproductions.co.uk
Thanks to all who took part that summer, I had a blast.
Excellent work depicting this situation. I like the attention to detail, and especcially the attitude of the officer was very realistic.
Luuk de Wijse yes
This just came through my feed and Thank God it did. What a powerful film. The exact thing that kept him sane and steady is what killed him. To show there is nothing safe and sane about war. And yet it gave the fresh young recruit his courage to pick up where he left off without a beat. It just shows what lengths and how powerful our minds can go and be to put us in a place of “comfort and safety” under the most horrific of circumstances. You created that beautifully. Thank you. Thank you and God bless to all those who served and sacrificed and continue to serve and sacrifice. 🙏🙏💐
Wow, this was a fantastic short film. Well done to all concerned and connected. Would love to see more. I will share this on my facebook page and on The Liverpool Pals Page. A page dedicated to The Liverpool Pals Battalions of WW1.
Hi Lorne. I don`t know if your remembre me, but I worked as part of the art department during the shooting of this short, in Winchester. I have the best memory of those times, and yesterday I decided to search the internet to see if I could find the finished film, which I had never seen. It was great to find it, and it made me proud to have been part of it! A few months after shooting I came back to my home country, Argentina, where I worked a lot as an art director assistant in film and advertising. Then I switched to opera. This year I´m stage-directing my fourth opera production after countless of jobs as an assitant director. But I miss my days working in the art department of short films in England. Just wanted to say hi and thanks for letting me be part fo your film. All the best, Mercedes.
Hi Mercedes, what a lovely comment thankyou. Its fantastic to hear about what you are doing in Argentina now and your fond memories of the shoot, all your work is there on the screen not to mention 1500 sandbags! Contact me through the GoodGuys site, be good to see some of your work.
I don't mean to be critical, but there's absolutely no way the trenches would look that good, especially the British one because it looks spotless, but good job on the film it's great!
@@jacobchrisman3527 I'm no history buff compared to others, but I'd have to say it's a bit difficult to have actors for multiple days at a time in mud and water, not to mention a lot of camera equipment as well, so this might just be a precaution
@@jacobchrisman3527 not all trenches were shit like portrayed in most war movies . depends when the trench was built and what time of year it was and how much action the trench had seen . they were building new trenches on new parts of the front all the time
@@jacobchrisman3527 So where is your ultra-realistic 100% historically accurate WW1 short film? Ah you haven't made one or even uploaded anything to TH-cam? Of course.
This is amazing! The filming quality is like a full feature film! We'll directed also!
Heene Studios Thanks Heene Studios, great to read such supportive comments. We had a pretty small budget really. Be good to write and direct more like this but alas its not commercial to create shorts like this. HD version on Vimeo now too.
I loved the extreme close up shots at the first battlefield sniping scene.... the elevation adjustment shot at 1:06, etc.. very effective at suspending disbelief. The end result was masterful. Thanks for sharing your work.
great short, it would be cool to see this into a full length movie, very accurate and very well detailed
Excelent , music at the end , that moment he was shot , it has spirit...
Great movie. One of the best WWI short films I have ever seen.
Big thanks ConnerConvert, please do pass it on to get some hits. Its really great for me to hear nice comments like this - Thanks Lorne
Sniping enemy soldiers who aren't even holding a weapon at the moment, nor are immediately involved in combat operations.
I understand why snipers had a bad reputation. And weren't often spared (as far as I heard of, at least).
Many thanks for all the kind words in the comments here. It's always daunting putting ones work 'out' for all to see so the feedback means a lot.
If you do like it please pass it on.
Thank you-
Lorne
Good Guys Productions outstanding work, finally recommended something good
Absolutely brilliant mate well done to you all who made this short film
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Good job, man. You are severely underappreciated.
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target
WOW!! What can I say. Very powerful & moving.
Hello from the states, Great job with the short. Any chance you may do another? Be good to see more WW1 short films from you.
Warren Chambers Thanks Warren, really appreciate your kind words. Im a jobbing filmmakaer by trade and although it would be fantastic to do another they don't create any money so the funding is always an issue fpr shorts like this, but I will post other stuff Ive done.
AWESOME!!!😆 A WW1 short film based on a True Story about a British Sniper behind enemy lines!!😃
I still HIGHLY doubt that a man would wander out into no mans land just to pick a flower.
Great job on the film. A few problems with lack of kit with the soldiers and all, but it was very interesting.
*blasts enemy in the head*
* sits back and opens his diary*
I think he was thinking of the past battle
Jakob Westerlund ...in reality,like my Grandfather he was affected all his life for what he’d seen and done ....My Grandfather was a sniper during this tragic war ....May they all RIP on all sides !...when they had the Christmas truce of 1914 ...and were ordered back into their trenches ...I think that ,was one of the saddest events of the war ...if only it had stopped there ...😢
1916 helmets with 1914 webbing
Perfection
very brilliant, haunting film. an undeniable work of art.
This is a very well-made short film. Thank you for sharing it with the world.
I hope one day you guys actually make full movies
Thanks Aldon Its a tough one to get films made now, especially full feature films, but comments like this keep the hope alive, so thank you
great job. funny to watch this film as a german. The scene in the flowerfields with his wife left me like wat
Thanks Kai.
Good Guys Productions you're welcome ^^
In re to this film being 'funny' as viewed from German perspective - please expand on your meaning. Curious if 'funny' is meant as comedy, or as a unique perspective not seen prior?
Lisa German it means strange.
Flower Power
I hope I can collect flowers in bf1
General Spärde it's not very historically accurate.
@@theflyingpig6361 the game or the short?
Legends has it he is still hoping to collect flowers in bf1
@@mattdillan2800 lol
Well with my KD im definitely pushing posies
This film was outstanding Brilliant -thank you for putting it up. Hollywood eat your heart out.
Does he collect flowers as a escape or to occupy himself
Well done
Tommy Atkins Thanks Tommy. There is a form of memorial to his Collecting
Thank you and that's why he also writes in his book
Outstanding.
Part pastiche of All Quiet Western Front : sketching birds/catching butterflies.
Great story telling. Well done
+Michael Geraghty Thanks Michael
I am extremely impressed. I watch so many short films on TH-cam about WW1; all either no plot or extremely bad filmmaking skills. But this is amazing. The directing is what I'd call professional-quality and the character development left me in awe. I am truly honored to have my eyes gaze apon this film. My hat tips off to you.
+Mishta Romaniello Many thanks for such encouraging words Mishta.
Have you ever seen Coward? I remember that one being pretty good.
Nathan Bowie I have seen it, and that is also a personal favorite of mine. This and Coward are my top two WW1 short films.
A collector of botanical specimens and victims.
Extremely well done. Pity it wasn't a fully fledged movie. Excellent work.
Thank god the sniper warned the trench platoon that they're being attacked, otherwise they could have suffered heavy losses.
Yes Mr Hirst plays Welles - smokes a good pipe
Good Guys Productions what’s the name of the song at the end
@@erosgonzalez532 just search up I want to go back home
good film but they were too clean. the trenches was a dirty place. other than that it is an amazing film
Anonymous Caveman Hi - Many thanks for the view, glad you liked it. Please pass it on. Interestingly most soldiers during non 'push' times were very clean, they had to keep shaved and presentable on order as British soldiers..even in awful conditions. Thanks for the comments and subscription.
oh yes they were neat because of they're uniform but they still would have been a bit more dirty. have you seen the video COWARD. thats a good ww1 short. its a bit like this one :) both are awesome. i'm subscribing to your channel by the way dude. keep it up :)
@@AnonymousCaveman From a purely historical standpoint, "COWARD" was terrible. Everything from the construction of the trench to the NCO screaming "OFFICER APPROACHING" all the time. The writing and artistic vision may be one thing, but as far as historical accuracy, they were very far from the mark.
This is so well edited and presented for a short film on a budget. It's very high quality, Cinema quality in fact. The story is so very sad and well thought of. Flowers and death 🥀🌹💐
Thanks for v kind words, means a lot.
Yes it was a tight budget.
We'd love to make this a bigger film but feature film industry is a bit of a closed shop.
A beautiful horrible film. Said more in 15 minutes than most do in a series. I'm too moved when I think of the indiscriminate scything of a generation of artists, poets etc. This film captured that.
v nice comments thank you
I would pay to go see this it's outstanding!
Thanks Jack nice comment
lol, welldone, i forsaw the fact that he was going for the flower at the end, and the new guy was entering the hide out that he would be the next snipa and the other would die, living in a dream-real world...and the jokes were good (two guys )
Yes, yes... Soldiers talk the talk and then hesitate for a split second, decisions the individual soldier makes innocently stop or create casualty, muscle memory of hobby consumes thoughts, and surplus soldier do walk off into the moonlight...
I loved this short! Thank you so much for posting it!
This is fantastic! But you should create another one, but not about the Brits. I've had too much of ww1 films about the Brits. I recommend a Belgian or a French one :)
+Yannick Oliveres (Red Rover) Thanks Yannick, yes agree a film about Belgium's War as the key land fought over and the early days of the war which ripped through. Thanks for your comments.
Lorne Guy No problem, but I found the French campaigns more interesting. My great granduncle fought in Verdun, as well as Chemin Des Dames, but he died there in 1917 from a bomb which blew him to smithereens.
I subscribed to you! Keep it up!
+Yannick Oliveres German maybe...
Wonderful short.
The sound when the characters spoke, was nearly incomprehensible, and both my LT and the video sound settings were at max. The image of the German who shot him, was reversed. Might say I'm nitpicking, but those issues flawed a pretty good film.
Respect for all the soldiers!
Would love to see a full movie of this
Poor chap copped a Wizz-bang sausage side!
great film
immer auf Kinder schießen, aber so war das damals. Ein schöner Film. ich hoffe das ihr auch mal einen Kurzfilm über den Weihnachtsfrieden 1914/16 macht. I hope you are make a movie about the christmas truce 1914/16
Y u dislike m8
Stop dat
Jesus Christ even with headphones on full blast you still can barely hear shit in tells beginning
Excellent short film and done on the best medium film ! Lovely colouration from that Kodak 500t. Why do so many people comment about “inaccuracies” A good film is about the ART and not about attention to details which are irrelevant to the overall aesthetic. This is not a documentary but a creative imagining and works very well indeed. I enjoyed it very much 👍
You are wrong about the effects of realism to film.
That was good actually! S.M.L.E.s with period optics are quite rare, I wonder where he got the rifle?
Franz Ferdinand’s car nmbr plates are:
A 111 118
Armistice 11 day 11 month 1918!!
Coincidence?
You are nothing but cattle to them!!
Get your tinfoil hat out.So he planned to get killed because … Illuminati,you make no sense at all.Coincidence ….yes.
Apparently i died
Mali Haynes rip
You will be missed
Everything was bloody great but there were some problems:
The trench layout and editing
And machinegun sounds
Great, absolutely brilliant.
All this and only 750 subs u deserve at least 100k
Thanks DoggoTV. These supporting comments mean a lot thanks
Wow. Just brilliant!
may k ask if that song can be found anywhere. i would like to listen to it.
Snipers life depends from his moves and one mistake it will costs him his life....
Fantastic film! Genuinely touching. One of the best short war films I've seen (and there have been quite a few popping up in my feed recently). The story was solid. Good acting. Looks great. Really well done.
Many thanks Rooster for your kind words. This was made some years ago but it means a lot to read feedback like this. Pls share of you think others will enjoy it.
this film is just magnificent a bloody masterpiece
Thanks Waffen le von Baldzly - great name! Really nice comments to warm a filmmakers heart. If only TV producers would see the same. thank you
I like you
Beautifully presented. Imaginative camera angles and subjects. Dialogue was both believable, natural and convincingly delivered. Many of the short films although of a high standard in most aspects, fall down on the acting and ‘wooden’ speech. Great work. Kind regards from UK.
It all happened just because of serbians.
Very good story.
Enjoyed this very much. Professional and artistic.
Very well done.
reminded me of memories of my own past, fabulous depiction is such a short time. many kudos! thumbs up
Bryan McGrath KUDOS you 🔔
Brilliant, does anyone know the name of the song at the end?
Best film ever
a very bittersweet capture in time for a few on the front...will have to re-watch, as audio was sketchy and thus more difficult to process. That said - excellent work, and would like a back-story in re to how the characters were chosen.
Amazing! 9.5/10! Much better than other short films I have seen.👍🏻
Wood collector from Wood in the back
The endless book of flowers
I want to go home......I want to go home.....i don't want to go back to the trenches no more where Whizzbangs and shrapnel they whistle and roar. Take me over the sea, where the alleyman cant get at me, oh my i dont want to die, i want to go home.
I want to go home.... i want to go home I don't want to visit La Belle France no more, for oh the Jack Johnson's they make such a roar. Take me over to the sea, where the snipers they cant get at me, oh my i dont want to die, i want to go home.
couldn't you just collect the flowers on your side of the trench ..lol.
A good movie...by collecting flowers. look where it got him
Amazing Movie, despite being old it is amazing. Love the songs at the end!
Kind Regards,
TM.
The mother or wife that lost her son or husband didnt win there are only diplomatic victories.
Amazing film! I reckon this is good enough to be a full film, you could do something on his full experience
Such exceptional work. Such a talented director, cast, writing, production.
Thank you for the gift of your talent shared in this video. It is much appreciated.
Hi Jacob so good to read. I do read all the comments and its truly heartening to read your appreciation. Yes a lot of effort of course and made for a pretty small sum for film, our cash budget was only £10k
Went out in the open just for a damn flower Omg
hey my names reilly
excellent! though why was the german sniper sequence reversed?
"were here, because were here, because, were here, because were here......"
One glaring inconsistency...
He has a working class accent.
Unlikely he'd be married to a middle class, educated woman, back then or have a property, such as the house, with a large garden.
I'm not saying it's impossible, however...
That aside, an poignant film, well acted and credit to everyone involved.
Incidently, I noticed the _"We'll not be mastered by no Jerry bas..."_ was omitted from the wartime refrain we heard at the close. Lol.
It could of been made for my Grandfather,...he was a sniper in WWI... the only difference is he survived, but his experiences left him affected ...for the rest of his life ,...he won the military Medal . Bob Cowell MM
Glad you watched it Don. Interesting to see u have a grandfather who was a ww1 sniper. Richard Van Emdens has written some great books using previous recorded interviews with ww1 vets inc snipers
Good Guys Productions ...thank you ...I will try and get hold of a copy ....great film by the way !
What’s with the volume... too low?
Decently shot short, and decently acted as well, however; this may be one of the most ridiculous premises for a WWI short I have ever seen.
A sniper ventures into no mans land to pick flowers and keeps them in a book... what horse shit lol. Other than that it was fine.
Trenches look awfully dry and newly made. One thing as long as there are old crusty men trying to relive their past lives glory and make up for past failures there will always be a war to fight somewhere in the world and probably in outer space some day the way we’re going
And to think, there are baristas in Starbucks crying on TikTok videos as to how hard, how miserable their lives are…..
Jesus Christ!
Im not sure that the brittish that quickly got scopes to sniper rifles im not even sure if they had snipers only three years after the war started it was a long process to get good snipers
my great grandfather was an English rifleman who was lucky enough to be promoted to the role of sniper before being sent to the Somme, i recently found his binoculars and a spotting/periscope in my grandma's spare room and so decided to look into some of the WW1 history as i feel a duty to attempt to understand what it was like; i never knew him and he never spoke of his experiences to anyone.
I don't support war of any kind, but its been very enlightening looking into the statistics and history of the War, and your movie has given me some insight into the lifestyle that my Great Grandfather would of had before he was lucky enough to make it back alive.
Thanks for your movie; i think these films are important and that we should use them to try and remind ourselves of the horrors we can so easily bring upon the world.
on a side note: ive noticed this has been shot with a film camera and not digital (?) i love the grain effect, i think it makes atmospheres more real in films. Im one of those "vinyl better than CD" type of guys.
Joe Clilverd Hi Joe many thanks for the comments. Yes it was shot on S16mm...cant agree more vinyl and a pick up every time
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Good luck to you then when the Russians land
Really nice, thank you.
You would do well to get a technical consultant who knows something of ballistics. one never hears a bullet coming. you only hear it if it doesn't hit you or after it has already passed, and then all you ever hear is a "SNAP" or "POP" if you want the sound of a hit, take a good sized hammer, buy a pigs carcase, hang it up, and give it a good swinging smack with the hammer. that's the sound of a hit. If you want a head shot, try a good solid mellon or winter squash treated the same.
Great take, but I don't think anyone didn't see the end coming. Read a Rifleman went to War sometime. The average WWI movie send the same msg. His book says "yeah, there was a lot of misery and death, but there was some really cool stuff, too".
Thanks Eric I will check out A Rifleman Went to War
boo why alwase use german be bad guy，have u watch all quiet on the western front？
Why are they mocking him for being a farm boy? Most of fucking uk was farmland. Why do people up there hate the very things that give them what they have? So it’s better to live in city? Nope.
Relax. ‘He’ wasn’t mocking the farm boy, he was portraying a type of banter which I assume (as I wasn’t there personally) was or could have been prevalent in the situation. Pisstaking and ribbing amongst mates, associates...... nothing personal and nothing has changed.
Absolutely brilliant. The whole story is great.