How to succeed in movie making - drop the F bomb as often as you can

For completion's sake - this is a quick note about the Auckland final of the 48 hours film making competition. As we were disqualified for lateness, we were not in the running but we did win an award for weirdness.

The Auckland finalists were actually all good. Some very slick indeed such as the robot revenge movie with added special effects for director's commentary, Maori language versions and an alternative ending. Probably a bit too clever. There were a couple of pointless ones we had to scrabble to remember later, but the hit this year seems to have been the fad movie genre.

Fad movie? What's a "fad movie"? Well that's what I asked when I first heard of it. But the three I've seen have all been clever and original - including my favourite of the final which was about kite flying and had a sweet ending (unlike most 48 hour efforts which go for shock).

The winner was another fad movie which was a mockumentary about "kid jumping". Funny and original but it had one of those stupid shock endings.

My favourite from the heat - called Circus Animals - defied our predictions and was in the final.

One gripe - I kind of get why film makers liberally drop the "f-bomb" in their productions. But why do they have to do it when accepting their awards? The MC, Oliver Driver, dropped a few, and the winning team called each other "f - ers" and implied the audience were too. They're proud of it - revelling in their licence to curse liberally, as if they think they're making some huge stride towards a better society, or something.