🎥 Behind the Lens: Creating a Dark War Film in 30 Meters of Forest. Sony ZVE1

Solo Film making has it's positives.

In the world of filmmaking, constraints often become your greatest muse. For this project, mine was a patch of forest no larger than 30 meters across, a Sony Zve1 in hand—and the weight of an idea that wouldn’t let go.

War Without Witnesses

No lights. No crew. No dialogue. Just a man in a mask, alone with a camera—and the weight of something that should have stayed buried. This is how my latest war film began: not with actors or sets, but with silence, fog, and guilt.

The film wasn’t about glory. It was about consequences. About the men who followed orders, the price they paid afterward, and the ghosts they couldn’t silence. In a 30-meter patch of soaking woodland, I tried to capture that.

Behind the scenes of my one man shoot. Shot on the Sony ZVE1

📸 Filmmaking With Nothing

• Camera: Sony ZV-E1

• Lighting: Overcast skies and a touch of post-production grit

• Crew: Just me

• Look: Vintage British uniform, cold hands, and a gas mask to strip away identity

• Gear: A tripod, a few basic props, and a mind full of questions

  
  

  I didn’t need dialogue. The image of a faceless soldier with a camera in his hands said enough. This film isn’t fiction—it’s memory. Not real memory, but emotional truth. The kind you inherit from history, even when you weren’t there.

🎭 The Character Behind the Mask

The soldier is nameless. That was intentional. The mask erased the man, just as war erases who you were. He doesn’t speak. He observes. He documents. He obeys.

But in his silence, you feel the noise. The moral decay. The doubt. The kind of emotional rot that lingers long after the battlefield goes quiet. If it was not clear the madness induced in the mask is me reflecting back and projecting my inner demons.

🌲 A Landscape That Doesn’t Care

I used the land as a metaphor. The boggy, tangled forest. The trees leaning like witnesses. Nature is indifferent to our war, but it’s always watching. The final moments of the film are stripped of music, as the gun trigger is released silence is the medicine and cure to the madness, it brings an end and peace.

The main film. Shot solo with a Sony ZVE1

🎬 Why I Made This Alone

Because films like this demand solitude. When there’s no one else around, the truth comes easier. You feel every shot. Every breath. There’s no one to hide behind.

I’m not a studio. I’m not even a team. I’m just someone who believes cinema can be honest—even when it hurts. Especially then.

Thanks for reading.

🖤– Andy