Joseph Moore
From: Auckland
Since: May 2011
Posts: 69
Biggest ever out of Auckland contingent? So many Welly teams.
Congrats dogs!
Joseph Moore
From: Auckland
Since: May 2011
Posts: 69
A Friend For Life was bold as hell with its subject matter, and it's ending, which was maybe too dark for me. But hey that's a risk right?
Joseph Moore
From: Auckland
Since: May 2011
Posts: 69
It was such a good line up! The darkest 48Hours final ever? So many bloody grim movies, sometimes hilariously grim, sometimes just grim (I loved it). It'll take a damn good film from somewhere else (or asTim Batt called them - the other cities we string along for a while) to beat Under The Bridge. Would love to see it take out nationals not only cos it's fantastic but also because I want to see Greg Smith do another James-Cameron-King-of-the-World style acceptance speech.
Joseph Moore
From: Auckland
Since: May 2011
Posts: 69
They closed the bar early, big mistake for them as based on the hype from this forum they were about to get swamped. We're now at Glass goose on federal
Joseph Moore
From: Auckland
Since: May 2011
Posts: 69
Hey guys,
A few people from different teams made the finals in my office, so we thought we'd have a pre-finals get together at the Empire Tavern. It's not fancy, but its big and has beers and is just across the road from SkyCity. Thought I'd extend the invite to everyone heading along so we can make real life non forum friends. I imagine we'll be there from 3ish? 4 at the latest?
Would love to see y'all there, rain or shine, whether the good team or the bad team win the election.
Joseph Moore
From: Auckland
Since: May 2011
Posts: 69
Anyone see any super good creative uses of it? Only ones I have seen were ultra films using past movie and 1x kind out of place helicopter shot used as an establisher.
Joseph Moore
From: Auckland
Since: May 2011
Posts: 69
Love it, what a good and deeply niche idea
Joseph Moore
From: Auckland
Since: May 2011
Posts: 69
in reply to AJ:
I like the variety of ways people have approached it! Who's to say what is the best. We so almost did a spinoff sequel to Ghostfish, almost like an American Horror Story style anthology sequel (new story/same cast) but changed our minds at 6:30AM Saturday, preferring the nostalgic approach and starting a new script. Man, Ultra really effed with our heads.
Joseph Moore
From: Auckland
Since: May 2011
Posts: 69
in reply to Cinema In Mind:
Almost all the Ultra films I have seen took advantage of the new rules to include old footage for context
Joseph Moore
From: Auckland
Since: May 2011
Posts: 69
in reply to Cardinal:
The silver lining to not making it, we get to see ur film now. Where's that Down 2 The Wire link at?
Joseph Moore
From: Auckland
Since: May 2011
Posts: 69
Absolutely loved it, what a dastardly thing to ask of us. We took 12 hours to agree on an idea, and didn't finish script until 9am. After already e-mailling out and then pulling another finished script at like 5am.
I love how this challenge forced us to be self-indulgent by revisiting our back catalogue and deciding which stories deserved to be revisited (I imagine, for most of us, the answer was "none of them"), then try not be self indulgent in making a movie that literally anyone else would care about.
Having to include exposition about the past movie, as well as like 8 elements in 5 minutes will probably crush a bunch of these movies under their own weight haha (defo guilty of this), but I can't wait to see this manic new style of 48hour film this year.
Joseph Moore
From: Auckland
Since: May 2011
Posts: 69
I love that Bad Seed was a genre but glad I didn't get it, cos of the whole asking people to use their children aspect
Joseph Moore
From: Auckland
Since: May 2011
Posts: 69
I also have a question
1: can you make a sequel to a disqualified film
2: are prequels sequels, totally right?
Joseph Moore
From: Auckland
Since: May 2011
Posts: 69
Don't remember, don't know, I'm a vegetarian, what a terrible name
