The Director for Creative Arts at the National Commission on Culture (NCC), Socrates Safo, has revealed that the inspiration for his untold story, “Tun-Tum,” came from a prophetic dream he had so many years ago.
According to him, the dream actually brought him to the movie industry to tell this untold story about humanity and the origin of man.
Revealing how the movie came about in an interview with Max Morning Agenda in Accra last Friday, Socrates said it was a prophetic dream he had after asking God the exact race he created first.
He said that after gaining that knowledge through a dream, he was left with the visualization of the story until he met an animator named Michael, who was introduced to him by Sammy Flex.
“Tun-Tum is the original story I wanted to tell but there was no adequate technology and a professional who can animate what I actually saw in my dreams so I couldn’t tell the story.”
“However, an event I went organized by Sammy Flex changed the narrative. I saw something and I asked Sammy Flex and he said he designed it. I told him about this dream of mine and he linked me to Michael an animator,” the filmmaker narrated.
Socrates said the animator took about six years to complete “Tun-Tum” due to some unforeseen challenges he encountered with the animator, who claimed at a point that he did not feel the urge to continue the story.
“After a year that he sent me short, short videos, I finally went to his house to review the entire animation video and I said ‘wow’ this is exactly what I’m looking for. So it took us four and half years to do it. It got to a point I wasn’t hearing from him again. I called him, he wouldn’t pick. Getting to six months, I searched for other animators who also couldn’t do it so I gave up,” he narrated.
Socrates indicated that it took the intervention of Sammy Flex again before the guy could open up to him and that “whenever he sat behind the machines, something dissuaded him from doing it.”
He said it was just 10 minutes to completion when he battled with those challenges, which would take about two to three days for the animator to finish.
“He then gave me a week and finally the work was done,” he added.
Source: Ghana/MaxTV/MaxFM/max.com.gh/Joyceline Natally Cudjoe
