{"id":9134,"date":"2021-04-28T02:36:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T02:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=9134"},"modified":"2026-02-03T04:05:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:05:39","slug":"if-you-have-great-ideas-work-on-those-ideas-and-bring-them-to-life-mihnea-cernat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=9134","title":{"rendered":"“If you have great ideas, work on those ideas and bring them to life. ” – Mihnea Cernat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Exclusive Interview with Mihnea Cernat – Artist, Filmmaker & Photographer<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Mihnea Cernat, is an artist, a photographer and a filmmaker,\n
\nborn and raised in Constanta, Romania. From his early youth, he has always been\nfascinated and passionate about art, photography, graphic design, animation and\nfilmmaking. At the age of 9, he made many small sketch videos using his\nfather’s old Sony cassette camcorder.
\nHe also studied and practiced animation from a guide book of animation for\nbeginners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2015, he became the youngest member of the Union\nof Romanian Artists, and he was self-taught in filmmaking by listening to\ninterviews of his favorite directors, watching behind the scenes videos on\ntelevision and participating as a background extra in Hollywood movies that\nwere shot in his hometown. What Happened to Monday, Contract to Kill, Comrade\nDetective and various national and international commercials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also had the opportunity to talk to the directors\nand actors
\nof the movies, while he was still improving the knowledge and abilities
\nin filmmaking. He first started collaborating in projects by creating poster designs.\nAs a designer and a passionate movie lover, he participated with his posters in\nnumerous international film festivals and contests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The music video titled Class Reunion was suppose to be his short debut film, but because he didn’t had all the scenes he needed he turned it into a music video for the band Colonist on The Moon, as they gave him the approval to use their song “Sometimes” in the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NY Glam: <\/strong>What inspired you to become a director and how did you\nget into music videos?<\/strong>
\nI got into the passion of filmmaking back when I was a kid,
\nwhere I watched many cartoons and movies on TV back in the 90’s. Most likely\nall the cartoons air on Cartoon Network, Hanna-Barbera cartoons, MTV cartoons,\nold movies aired on Turner Classic Movies both in black and white and colored and\nmy parents had classic Disney animated films and shorts recorded on VHS tapes.  And that’s where I learned English from.  That got me into creating many story ideas,\ndrawing characters that I wanted to bring them to life and perhaps having them\npresented on screen. Both film and animation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most inspired director that I still admire is\nSteven Spielberg.
\nHe’s my hero. I grew up watching Jurassic Park, Animaniacs, E.T.,
\nFreakazoid, Indiana Jones, Balto and of course We’re Back a
\ndinosaur story. My dad offered me an old Sony camcorder, where I studied it and\nmade a bunch of short home videos.  I\nreally had fun making a 40 minute fan made Star Wars video with Lego toys and\naction figures. Using my dad’s camera, also got me into Claymation and stop\nmotion animation. I got into music videos by watching Spike Jonze music videos\non MTV.There were many music videos I liked that we’re surreal but they told a\nstory.
\nI really enjoyed how they were shot on film and I was amazed by the special\neffects too. And of course animated music videos. I wanted to experience music\nvideos like I did with short films. Telling a story in a very expressive way.\nEven musically. I made two parody videos based on Eminem’s videos. And I got a\nlittle better back in 2016 when my friend Marlene Dinu asked me if I would like\nto make a fan made music video with her for the Arctic Monkeys song 505. I\naccepted and it was fun. The video is posted on YouTube and on my Vimeo\nprofile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam: <\/strong>What new projects are you currently\nworking on? <\/strong>
\nWell…I have a long list of future projects.  Feature lenght,medium length and short films.\nAnd of course music videos. I am also interested in making fan made films,\ncomics and video games. I\u2019m working on some shorts, where some of them are\nexperimental and others are experiments in techniques and special effects. When\nI get more experienced and start earning movie budgets, I want to create films\nbased on many genres and subgenres. But I like to rely on the guerilla style filmmaking,\nbecause it’s easy and quicker. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam: <\/strong>What is the concept of this music video?\nWhat direction did you give the artist? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The concept is about friendship and nostalgia. Being edited and presented in a collage video in a retro kind of way, with no smart phones, no plasma TV\u2019s, more communication and old school technology like taking pictures with film cameras and playing Nintendo.
I had this idea on making a short film about my friends, it was supposed to be my short debut film, but I didn’t had all the scenes I needed to film to finish it. So I decided to turn it into a music video, to promote the band and my friends. Colonist on The Moon (artist) is my favorite rock band.\u00a0 I kept in touch with the lead singer Grig Gheorghe, where I shared with him ideas for music videos to promote them. I did it for fun and being a huge fan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NY Glam: <\/strong>What was the atmosphere on set like?\nWhat was it like working with the artist?<\/strong>
\nMy first day of shooting was pretty messy. My script was rushly written
\nand I couldn’t shoot some scenes with everyone participating in one room.I was\nnervous too, and I thought I could have done the shooting quick in a few days\nlike Roger Corman did with The Little Shop of Horrors. Which was shot in two\ndays. But one the actors, my friend David Dobre helped me by reshooting the\nscenes again. And rewrote the script too. But in separate days with the rest of\nthe actors.  And add them together in the\nediting. And he brought along two friends that helped me.
\nAlex Rebegea and Elena Prisaca. And then everything got very smoothly and\npretty great. Thanks to Dave. We shot in a guerrilla style filmmaking, I was my\nown cameraman, my own editor and I photographed everyone for the still image\nmontage. The atmosphere was pretty fun when I have my friends participating in\nthe project.
\nIt was great working with Grig the lead singer of the band. And I wish to keep\non collaborating with the band any day and make more music videos for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam: <\/strong>Who did you collaborate with in the\nmaking of this video? <\/strong>
\nMy friends Dave, Alex, Madalina, Elena and Steven as the actors.
\nAnd the band Colonist on The Moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam: <\/strong>What kind of statements do you like to\nmake with your videos? <\/strong>
\nI like to make them fun to watch, for the viewers and fun with the actors on\nset.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam: <\/strong>How much creative control do you have as\na director or does it depend on the artist and their vision for the song? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is important for me to have control of everything,\nthe set, the camera gear, the ideas I made, but I like and accept\nimprovisations from the actors. As they have ideas of their own that can better\nimprove the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do accept the artist’s vision. It helps me when I\nimagine the artist’s vision or story in the video. But I rather do my own idea\nand sometimes create images based on the lyrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam: <\/strong>What have been some personal highlights\nof your career?<\/strong>
\nPerhaps collaborating with more people fascinated in the same theme as me. In art,\nmusic and film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam: What other projects have you been involved in? <\/strong>
I participated as a background extra in Hollywood movies and series,
where the shooting took place in my town. Those movies are What Happened to Monday on Netflix, Contract to Kill with Steven Seagal, the series Comrade Detective on Amazon Prime and a commercial for a German bank called Quirion. I did get involved collaborating in other film projects as a cinematographer that didn’t get me anywhere and I was disappointed working with the directors because they were kind of freeloaders that wasted my time. But I did get involved in other projects I enjoyed like international art fairs and exhibitions, poster design contests, photography and film festivals, creating designs for book covers, creating poster designs for theater plays, creating video content for commercials, book trailers and music videos and also into modeling photography for my model friends. I did participate in a festival poster design contest organized by The Locarno Film Festival. I sure had fun making commercials for my parents’ hotel. Which are posted on the Hotel Albatros Mamaia Facebook page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NY Glam: <\/strong>What are you looking forward to this\nyear?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

More opportunities, more occasions, more\nsupport and wish to make more films and video content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam: What makes a music video great? What qualities do you strive to achieve?<\/strong>
I generally wish for the music video to have a short story. Can be both narrative, subjective and experimental. Nowadays, the music videos are only relying in dancing and romance. Not to mention heavy beat rhythm. And quick editing. I want the music video that I work on to be presented either narrative or experimental. But most importantly expressive that puts a smile on the viewer’s face watching the video while listening to the music. Any kind of music.
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NY Glam: <\/strong>What other hobbies do you have?<\/strong>
\nMy hobbies are making videos, watching movies, painting and drawing mainly\ncause I graduated from art school, create logo and cartoon character designs,\ncreating stories, making masks from latex, sometimes doing special effects makeup,\nanimation and storyboarding, voice acting, making movie posters, listening to\nmusic and making music and audio collage, writing scripts, poems, lyrics and\nfan fiction, photography when needed and hanging out with my friends and family\nin my studio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam: <\/strong>What are you thinking about doing next?<\/strong>
\nWell…pretty much helping my friends by encouraging them in doing what they\nlove and making a living. But I won’t stop on creating more content in art and\nfilm. I want to start on making feature films plus shorts and hopefully working\nalongside with my favorite actors and actresses. I have a long list of actors\nand actresses I wish to work with.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam: Any advice for aspiring music directors?<\/strong>
Yes. Be yourself, be creative and express your creativity. If you have great ideas, work on those ideas and bring them to life. And if you collaborate with musicians or bands, go for it. Your vision and their music always work together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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