Room of UR

This film was absolutely stunning, I was positively blown away by the high level of cinematography. I would honestly be shocked if this film didn't win this competition, and I have already personally nominated it for my small awards show I run (hint hint, watch the next Oscars). Congratulations on the incredible outcome team.

- John Oscar

This was an excellent film that stood out above the other school entries. The story of the damaged painting was somewhat cliched (Mr Bean), but was executed extremely well, and the repair with tools was a new twist. All actors did well, especially the main actor. And the Room of Ur was just hilariously random - how long has that guy been sitting on the loo?!! Great attention to detail also, such as the telephone caller ID "Ur". Well done.

Great watching it at the Heat Live.
Really enjoyed the pun on the room of Ur.... so good. I reckon you didn't need to explain it!

Wicked film. Great story telling and classic kiwi comedic moments. Awesome set and performances. Congrats on making something rad

This is a fun film with a witty script, sharp editing, nicely mixed audio, good performances, and some imaginative shots. The film is dripping with comedic value – from carrying a random mop all around the house to all sorts of random and well-choreographed tool shenanigans. The exaggerated comedic errors make me cringe in horror.

The two parallel storylines and abrupt ending were great. It would be tempting to call one of them a red herring, a distraction from the true plot, but actually they both feel like satisfying storylines that raise big questions I have to answer for myself.

I liked the use of quick pans, and a cross dissolve to show the passage of time. Animating a change of aspect ratio for the broken fourth wall was a nice touch.

Some shots were a bit crooked and could have benefited from ensuring the camera was level and facing exactly straight ahead. If you want to up the ante next time, you could use manual focus, boom or lapel mics, and play even more with camera angles and framing.

I too noticed the echoes of Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie, but was impressed that the cleaner managed to be even more stupid than Mr Bean.

Perfect Cell reference

A great comedy of errors film gang. Great job. Sure to perform well!

A perfect ending to cap of a hilarious film! (Perfect use of the vine boom!)
You've got to at least get nominated for best use of 'rumour', it's such a great pun, I love it to it's very core!
In my opinion this was definitely the highest quality film out of all the school team films, and you had a good balance of humour and plot.
My one suggestion would be for you guys to go bigger, not bigger sets or a larger story, but just more wackiness! Although this film is already quite wacky and awesome, it felt like if you just took one more step and lent into everything just a bit more it would have elevated this film by a lot. The ending and the introduction to the room of ur both had the right amount of fun and wackiness but some of the other parts of it feel like they could go slightly more all out. like they're 95% of the way there, but just haven't added that last 5%.
This is very minor and nit-picky though! Your film is great, and I had a lot of fun watching it in the heats! All of your actors were really good, and portrayed each of their very different characters perfectly!

Fantastic job team, and really good use of genre leaning into absurdity! This was incredibly well-made and creative, and a bit of a step up from last year! It makes me really excited to see what you guys will go on to make next, i.e. PLEASE keep making films!!!

Really standout performances; the main character carried the film well and brought a lot of physical comedy. I would say the "rumour" joke was a little too explainy, the initial delivery of "Room of Ur" was really clever and you can trust the audience to get it.

A lack of film locations can often be a hindrance for teams, particularly school teams, so you did well to tailor a story that was suited to a suburban home.

One particular shot really stood out to me: The POV searching for tools to help with the reaching hand in front, then panning to a box named "Art Fixing Supplies" - that was stupid funny to me.

Really nice work, keep it up.

As mentioned above, have you ever seen the film BEAN released in 1997? You should check it out lol

THE BEST THING: Some great technical work, a simple story told well, and the Room of UR is great.

THE NEXT THING: Despite me saying it to your wee little faces at the workshop, you didn't act your age hahaha - Ryan is most certainly not a pompus rich man, and Max is certainly not looking any younger than Ryan in this short. So it falls into this space of very funny, but unconvincing. Take heart fellas, we enjoy what you make and we hope you keep entering after you graduate! Who knows, maybe you'll end up making the next MASHED.

PS. Did we talk about the fact that your film got interupted due to a birthday party next door wanting to sing happy birthday? Hilarious, it'll go down in Chch 48hours history.