NZDF is still hostile to oversight
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Monday, August 28, 2006
Regional Finals
Were cool. I really enjoyed some of the films, especially a comedy called Extra Curricular, and a horror called Horror 101. Both excellent short films, made by students.
We were pretty thrilled to learn that With Mighty Power made it through to the finals! We kinda hoped Life Lesson 12 would make it through as well, but the Consequence won in the Wellington heat.
So, September 3oth will see us rocking up to the national finals! Hopefully we'll get some feedback from the judges, as well as the pleasure of being finalists. Having seen The Consequence, and heard about the claymation film that won the Auckland regionals, I think we'll be very happy with 3rd place in our category (out of 3). There's some chance that there may even be a prize for our film, though I suspect it might be a not-so-easy-to-share ipod shuffle or similar.
Huzzah!
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Was Consequence the one with the split screen? I didn't like that one very much...I mean, it was well made but the story was not very clear. And didn't seem to have any resolution.
I am very much looking forward to seeing the claymation one though!
Yep, that was the one. Having seen it, I thought that LL12 had a chance. The Consequence was a good idea, and was well put together, but the only decision that was played out was the random, unimportant one (to go upstairs or not). The point seemed to be that choosing not to do nice things was going to end up being bad for the character, but it didn't end up focusing on that. It ended up being 'go upstairs' vs 'randomly go out the back door', which is a choice without much point.
If they'd played the car fixing choice out in split screen, it might have been eye-hurty, but would have made a lot of thematic sense and been a way cool idea.
Is it MIGHTY claymation?
Congratulations again!!!! You have done very well! (that is collective and does include all involved). We would like to try and plan to visit again - is this coming weekend free? We would come down on Friday night, back Sunday morning - if not what about the following weeked?
We have you all booked in for this weekend - the 1st to the 3rd :)
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