It's "48 Hours of furious film making" season again. We attended "our" heat last night.
It was 9.30 on a Friday so they obviously thought they could play their most offensive entry. As my 14 year old daughter said (she is very wise) "it's easy to get uncomfortable laughs". My 15 year old daughter hit it on the head when she declared none of the films in our heat to be finals material.
To me they were mostly distinguished by almost every one ending in a death. I have decided I like my short films to be simple, so the one room movie where two characters, with almost no dialogue, play a lethal skill game was my favourite - even though it, too, ended in a death.
The MITCIT team (our team) once again foundered on the shores of technical ambition, but we had a great live cast this year (the heroine has received accolades on the review site for her performance). The second version will probably be a masterpiece as the final came unstuck with CG backgrounds and editing.
Shock and grossness and lots of violent death - easy fixes to plots with holes and implausability aplenty. Our script was great, our cast was great - one day we'll nail the tech stuff, then watch out!
It was 9.30 on a Friday so they obviously thought they could play their most offensive entry. As my 14 year old daughter said (she is very wise) "it's easy to get uncomfortable laughs". My 15 year old daughter hit it on the head when she declared none of the films in our heat to be finals material.
To me they were mostly distinguished by almost every one ending in a death. I have decided I like my short films to be simple, so the one room movie where two characters, with almost no dialogue, play a lethal skill game was my favourite - even though it, too, ended in a death.
The MITCIT team (our team) once again foundered on the shores of technical ambition, but we had a great live cast this year (the heroine has received accolades on the review site for her performance). The second version will probably be a masterpiece as the final came unstuck with CG backgrounds and editing.
Shock and grossness and lots of violent death - easy fixes to plots with holes and implausability aplenty. Our script was great, our cast was great - one day we'll nail the tech stuff, then watch out!