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For the first time, I'll be diving into a few of the UNKNOWN UNTIL NOW productions David worked on during his drama school years at the RSAMD!!

One in particular eventually bumped heads with the powers that be, and it all ended up as a bit of a scandal!

And oh yeah, before I forget....

David worked on these...but (spoiler) not as an actor! Stay tuned!

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There has never been a definitive answer for either, however, I can narrow down the time frame window quite a bit.

The short film The Studio was commissioned by Whitenoise Studios in Belfast, Northern Ireland as a parody of themselves and was shown at their company Christmas party. It was filmed on location at Whitenoise Studio, most likely in the autumn of that year.

Using other early photos of Colin as a benchmark, it would not have been done while he was at secondary school at Integrated College Dungannon, because the photos of him from that time all show him with a very short haircut; almost buzzcut short, and his character Chris clearly has a hairstyle longer than that.

Using the Nothing to Confess performance from March 2005 as the benchmark (because of the noticeable scar on the bridge of his nose),

it's clear that The Studio happened prior to that, since there's no scar.

I would say that Colin looks younger in The Studio than even his Bite of the Night performance from October 2004.

He's really pretty baby-faced here.

Plus, if it was recorded in the autumn (the most probable timeline for a production made ready for Christmas), Colin would not have been available, because he was in Scotland.

So, it most likely was made during the two years that Colin attended Belfast Metropolitan College, which would place the timing at either the Autumn of 2002 or 2003 (16 or 17 years old).

As for Jealousy, although the other actors in that short film were classmates of Colin's from RSAMD (See the photo of Colin from Bite of the Night above... They are the two boys standing directly to Colin's right), it was surely NOT filmed while they were at RSAMD.

Note the poster of Barack Obama on the wall behind this actor's head. That would date this film definitively to 2008 or later, and most likely filmed in the USA.

The date of upload on YouTube account that originally posted it (before it was taken down) was from November 2011.

Colin's look in Jealousy

is consistent with how he looked at the Supanova event in Australia, which was the same time frame (November 2011).

So I think it's safe to say that Jealousy was likely recorded in October (Merlin Series 4 finished in October, so not before then) or November of 2011.

I hope that helps!

Colin interpretando al superheroe Archie en “Jack y las habichuelas mágicas” en la Real academia escocesa de música y drama. Colin playing superhero Archie in “Jack and the Beanstalk” at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.