Director RickDugdale spoke about the challenges of directing over Zoom for his new NFT film, ZeroContact.
For a project virtually constructed and directed over Zoom, there isn’t a more appropriate name for the film Zero Contact. Produced in 17 different countries during the global pandemic, Zero Contact is a thriller that focuses on the dangers of high-tech in a virtual world. Anthony Hopkins stars as Finley Hart, an unconventional genius behind a global data-mining program.
Speaking of convincing people, how did you convince Anthony Hopkins to become involved with this project? First of all, when it came together, Cam and I were working on this idea. The original idea was what if five world leaders were assassinated around the world at the same time by the same person. That was kind of the origin story. Which yes, someone can go run with that idea [laughing]. But that was the origin of it. As he was writing the screenplay, I started to tell Cam, “Hey, let’s put [in] a Japanese character because TJ [Kayama] is a friend of ours. He can shoot that part.
They [the actors] have a lot more respect for producers now, which is great. We used Zoom as a device to stand on set. It was not a Zoom movie, right? There’s real equipment. So if the Wi-Fi signal went down, we can’t see or hear the performance, but they probably recorded it in the camera. So we had to say, “Hey, can we get some playback on camera? And by the way, you need to do the playback yourself and tell us if you like the shot.
Vuele is the world’s first-ever NFT film distribution company doing film distribution using NFTs, which is a lot different than a traditional distribution strategy. This is more of a fan engagement, collectible, resalable tool using NFTs. With Vuele, we’d also be doing collectibles tied to the films that it releases.
I mean it’s exclusive access. It came out previously, and there are different versions of the film that were accessible. Speaking for Vuele, every film will have different components like this: Exclusive early access and long lists of utilities. In the first 11 versions of the film, for example, if you bought that on Vuele, inside your NFT, you got to shoot yourself into the film.
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