Every 48 team probably gets a lifetime pass to do one black and white noir, much like you get one pass to do mockumentary as much as I cringe when I both turn up in the competition. Here we are talking about the former as a hard boiled detective investigates a crime.

Some decent dialogue to be sure, but the run on sentences just felt a bit like word soup to me if I'm being brutally honest. Shadowplay was decent, but would have loved to see you properly grade this, bring your deepest blacks to play and let us get visual insights into this city of scum that would have narratively driven us an audience. By not grading even if your lighting and framing was nice it just played like a straightforward noir, penis chalkline nonwithstanding.

Drugs bring out the dog in our lead who absolutely trips balls in this metaphysical disco infused romp.

The self reflection matches with literal reflection was a particularly striking piece of camerawork I felt and loved the kinetic energy running throughout. If you're going to commit to something like this you can't go half assed and I like that Curb Side swung for the fences with their animal adventure.

Good lead performance, really good use of colour palette and pretty good edit. I felt the full circle narrative didn't quite hit its mark but came very close to being extremely satisfying personally.

The beauty and grief of life and death is given a closeup by Peake, who tackle a pretty big subject of how we deal with suicide.

This is a really sensitive subject to try and handle outside the confines of 48 Hours, and I commend the team for playing it straight and doing their best to utilise juxtaposition between memory and sadness.

For mine, the audio mix fluctuated in quality quite markedly throughout the films and I wasn't sold on the crystals to 'bring her back'. Yet we all deal with grief in our own ways and if this was for example drawing on personal experiences for the team then that raw emotion certainly presented strongly.

Very good performance by the lead, and the visual edit gave this an almost fever dream feel. Just due to the edit it didn't quite give me the gut punch that I feel it could have, but I commend the team for giving it their all.

This is by far my favourite film in the Dunedin heats.

Go Moyadaze!!!

A young lady looking for work and by chance has landed a job, hired immediately with a place to stay. But as warnings starts to pop up in every angle to her unfortunate luck... she learns really fast.

From sequence to sequence, it was polished and smooth. Cinematography in this was fluent, it actually was really well put together. The framing was well done too.
The acting needed a some tidying up and I believe it was the ADR towards the end that didn't convince me.

to leave on a positive note, I loved the foreshadow of the water shot when it was brought up again at the end. Well done. simple story yet executed really nicely.

can't wait to see more from you guys :)

Loved the almost NPC/repeat actions and the production company refs - would love to see a few more! XD

What the hell? Those are some of the best scenery I’ve seen in a 48 in a while. Your lighting and visual are some of the best and cleanest I’ve seen in quite some time. You guys did extremely well. You oughta be proud.

The Reality of Love is an interesting and fun take on the reality TV shows that are somewhat popular. Watching this for the second time in the screening room I found I appreciated it more than when I saw it in the heats for some reason. Perhaps I felt the sentimentality of the ending wasn't quite earned. It's a very beautiful film though. It's incredible some of the locations that some teams find for their shorts.

This was one of the few musicals made this year apparently. I had somehow forgotten about this film though as I was watching it I did remember the scene in the bar. There is some interesting costume design, and it's reasonably effective at selling the period of the short. The writing of the songs was pretty solid as well though I suppose they could've been written in a way that more clearly tells the story. I also think that the elaborate choreography is let down by trying to force it into a one-shot. I think doing it in pieces would have helped the pacing.

Love the transition flashes between scenes at the beginning. The POV shot was cool.

Audio was a bit quiet overall, but the sfx were quite loud.