The heat

Well the heat went well - mainly the fact we'd managed to actually dub our film off with sound and it did things like sort of make sense. Big ups to the 88yr old lad and her puppet movie tho, so sad she was disqualified.
Anyway have been checking the forums and we got 2nd for audience favourite in our heat!!!! (We were beaten by a team called Eat Kitteo which had a baby being stolen by a chicken from a video game and featured excellent Super Mario Bros type game animation.

HEAT SIX - Audience favourites.
1. Eat Kitteo - Poultry Pounder 3 - Parallel World
2. Electric Pink Company - The Electric Pink Company - Dance
3. FilmFriend - The Twisterning - Twist

Reviews:
WELLINGTON HEAT 6:

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We were given a disclaimer before the two dull yell films screened that they were made in the name of art, as love is all around us, that they were made by some of last year’s finalists (think much of yourself?) and with a quote by Fellini at the end; a man notorious for bullshitting directly whenever interviewed in the media. Oh, and Grayson Gilmour did his best Elliot Smith impression on the soundtracks. Oh and that they would be winning lots of money through a grant if they somehow managed to make the Wellington final through their endeavour. Shame they were both disqualified…

Team Name: dull yell one / Genre: Romance / “Dull Yell One” [Disqualified]

A dad swings his kid around lovingly, a dad hurts himself on a skateboard. Lots more footage of the family. Experimental film techniques abound. Guy wearing double denim and showing annoyance at bailing on his skateboard (where they shoved the elements in) were the highlights. Grayson’s soundtrack was good though.

No rating.

Team Name: DULL YELL TWO / Genre: Family / “Dull Yell Two” [Disqualified]

Guy in red jersey with blue jeans walks around his backyard as cool lighting shots and grainy footage is shown. More Grayson Gilmour soundtrack for the audience to enjoy.

No rating.

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Team Name: Eat Kitteo / Genre: Parallel World / “Poultry Pounder 3”

Fucking awesome; short, sweet, to the point and a little sick. A guy comes across a rare videogame at a garage sale and is told to remember to “choose rock”. He goes home excited about his rare find, only to be told by his wife to watch the baby because she is going out. Baby gets stolen into another world by a giant chicken and he has to engage in a janken match to get the baby back. Damn entertaining.

Story: 4.5 / Acting: 4 / Elements: 4.5 / Technical: 4 / Overall: 4.5

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Team Name: Electric Pink Company / Genre: Dance / “The Electric Pink Company”

Came to the screening in their outfits from the film – nice work! Having been a secretary, our lead actually wants to be a dancer as she finds the power of dance electrifying and so joins the Electric Pink Company for some dancing on a boat. The boat has problems and the dancing continues on rocks by the shore. Splits, body-flops and backspins were impressive.

Story: 2 / Acting: 2.5 / Elements: 3 / Technical: 3.5 / Overall: 3

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Team Name: Engine Films / Genre: Real Time / “Rock and a Hard Place”

Filmed the screen; looked and sounded horrific and was almost impossible to tell what was going on other than it being a big Saw rip-off. The characters did not know where they were and the room was filling was gas, but only two could survive through oxygen tanks. Had a twist and got ironically funny when they said people were watching them on camera; cam of filtered cam – almost made my head spin.

Story: 1.5 / Acting: 2 / Elements: 2 / Technical: 1 / Overall: 1

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Team Name: EXPERIMENTIA PRODUCTIONS / Genre: Politically Incorrect/Religious / “Garden of Eden”

A former strap-on infomercial star and a bible basher get harassed in a café by an annoying fan who wants to buy some drugs. The actor is having relationship problems at home because he’s cheating on his girl – maybe money from selling drugs can solve the problem? The deal however does not go down well, as guns come out blazing.

Story: 2.5 / Acting: 3 / Elements: 3 / Technical: 2.5 / Overall: 2.5

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Team Name: Team Facial / Genre: Educational / Missing In Action

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Team Name: Feathersmoke / Genre: Revenge / “Angry Women on Ice” [Disqualified]

Set in the Antarctic amongst a village of penguins (bottles were the model used but the team did a good job) and spoken pretty much entirely in rhyme. The female penguins are upset at the mayor for not taking action against the other birds (complete with awesome string flying effect) who keep stealing their eggs, and they want revenge. They then set out for revenge. Lots of charm from this entry by an older team, although quite slow paced.

Story: 2.5 / Acting: 2.5 / Elements: 3 / Technical: 3 / Overall: 2.5

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Team Name: Fergus and Andrew / Genre: Nature Run Amok / “The Thin Green Screen”

Nature is running amok in America, and so the military films a propaganda film against a green screen. Good setup, but 5-6 minutes of filming jokes against the green screen got old pretty quickly. Not sure if they had technical problems? Bit of a shame to not actually use the green screen but whatever, I laughed a couple of times.

Story: 1 / Acting: 3 / Elements: 2.5 / Technical: 3 / Overall: 2.5

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Team Name: FilmFriend / Genre: Big Twist / “The Twisterning”

Oh my, they literally took the “M Night Big Twist” genre literally; but instead of having a twist let’s just say lots of characters from the hack director’s films made it on screen talking to a girl at a speed dating night, and the ‘twist’ was absolutely not what you’d expect. Someone even wore an M Night mask. Wow.

Story: 2 / Acting: 3 / Elements: 2.5 / Technical: 3 / Overall: 2