It was so many long weeks ago, but I’m trying my hardest to recall what happened in Rolling.

I remember enjoying it, but finding the characters a bit dull, the plot a bit predictable, the cinematography uninspired. That’d be according to my high standards of American Horror Story or Game of Thrones-style budget and effort. So, in terms of a short, university-based film, I liked it and thought it was very well done.

That said, I guess my main issues with it were plot-based – something I’ve often lamented about short films is their inability to provide real character development – which is in an entirely different league to budget, mostly. Anyway, that doesn’t mean it was a bad script; the dialogue was fantastic, and it was probably the best aspect of ‘Rolling’.

I seem to remember – and this might just be a fault in my memory – that the colour correction was pretty bad. I think it was too green, but that’d be because a lot of it was filmed in a fluorescent-lit supermarket.

On that note, the acquisition of a supermarket as a location for much of the film was fairly impressive. I wouldn’t want to have to organise that, but there didn’t seem to be a rushed sense to the scenes set there, they seemed relaxed.

Casting-wise, I thought that the main character was fantastic at comic-timing, but the main female role was forgettable. This may have been a writing problem, but to me the actress didn’t impress me.