A Grave Pain

8/10 – The dead guy being a ghost was pretty funny, and the duplication (or lookalike actor??) was pulled off really well. Excellent audio balance and great use of colours, and colour balancing!
I felt the story could have leaned more into the sad emotion. Yhe slow-motion moment worked nicely. The fading to invisible effect was awesome, though the fisheye lens felt a bit forced. Well done!

Got buddy film, made a ghost film! I think you did a great job with your genre and actually made your characters likeable and believable with depth, which a lot of teams and films now progressing into the finals really failed to do. So for that I tip my hat off to you!

This was technically really sound, a sure hand behind the camera and a smooth edit, with a clean image and great coverage in terms of locations actually getting out and about, for example to the beach AND river/under the bridge.

I think that whilst you had some pretty good x-factor moments to stand out (the accident was laugh out loud funny) that the film would have perhaps been elevated a bit more if you added some emotional weighting and really drove that home. Because whilst it was a consistent in tone film it felt like you could have really got me in the feels or made me laugh throughout and I felt the balance was ever so slightly confusing at times? Overall really good though!

The work I have loved most from Those Guys have been films that finely straddle heartbreak and humour that is reflective of the relatable rhythm of our lives. This film had all the potential in its concept to be just that, but leant too heavily on the gags and didn't give us enough insight to where the characters were at in their relationship together to allow us to truly feel the wounds of the distance that had formed between them. I'm a big believer that Those Guys will make the city finals one day - just a matter of time with this impressive team.