Hey there! You don’t have to feel weird about asking at all - if anything I’m really flattered that you’re interested in my other projects. To answer your questions: (sorry, this is going to be a long one)

how did I go about shooting my short film?

I met a lot of really helpful and talented people ever since I moved to Berlin and they are honestly the ones who deserve all the credit. It was kind of a joint project with my ‘DOP’, who I’ve met on a set a while back in summer. We got talking and he told me that he’s also applying for film school, focusing on cinematography, so we decided to do this film together. 

I wrote a shit first draft, got some feedback on it, wrote a slightly less shittier second and third draft and eventually I got to a point where I thought - yup, that’s the film we’re going to make. Although, obviously, I was restricted by what was possible for me concerning budget and skill, while writing the script. 

Next step was casting. I posted on several bulletin boards, and got a ton of applications. Out of those, I ended up casting about 4 or 5 actors, but it was pretty obvious that one of them was just perfect for the role. 
I met with him a couple of times, discussed the role and the script and he was really supportive and on board with everything which was just A+++++

We looked at our location options, scheduled a date for filming and started putting together a very small team and some equipment. We did have a very small budget (about 400€) but being able to borrow most of our equipment and set decoration from friends, family and colleagues has really saved our asses. Everything we couldn’t find for free we bought or rented. 

The days before shooting I was mostly busy with making some minor changes to the script and putting together a shooting schedule for every day (5 days in total), organising catering, transport, extras etc, etc… theres so much to this honestly if you really want to know in detail it’s probably best to contact me again, privately. 

There will always always always be things that go wrong last minute. It happened to us, it happens to everyone, but you’ve just got to learn how to improvise… and keep a cool head. So much shit happened on set I cannot even begin to tell you. Oh and: second day on set is always the worst. 

But yeah, on set I was mostly focussed on directing, working with the actor, keeping to the schedule. At the end of every day we looked at our footage, saved it 3 times and fell into bed way too late. Got up way too early the next morning. 

Once we were done with filming I immediately started renaming, organising and editing the footage. Theres being some final tweaking done this week, as our sound designer is still working on it but - to answer your question - yes, you’ll definitely get to see it once all this application drama is over! 

I could definitely go into detail on the whole process but you’ll just have to ask me specific questions as it’s just such a huge subject to cover. I hope I could help you out a bit though and - like I said - you can always contact me off anon!

Thanks for your question anon! The truth is that I just got really lucky.
My dad relocated his store, selling high-end furniture, decoration and art, earlier in 2016 and we decided to do sort of a joint exhibition. I had a lot of free time on my hands back then and prepared a lot of large scale oil paintings which - for some reason - all sold! I was really happy with how good it went and I doubt that it would have been as successful if I had exhibited them in a gallery. 

I do have some general advice on on this topic though, since my case is pretty specific: 
If you can, try to find a cafe/restaurant/shop/gallery/etc that is planning on opening/relocating or some other big event and ask them if you can join in with an exhibition. That way, getting people to come to your vernissage isn’t all on you - they’ll just be there anyway 

it’s almost impossible for me to trace back all the brush sets I’ve downloaded at some point in the past years… I usually keep what works best for me and throw out the rest. But I remember using this brush set by deharme in particualr A LOT. It’s brilliant!