Lights .. camera ..

Over the weekend of May 16th - 18th, most of the staff at Malcs work got together to participate in the 48 Hours film festival.

On the Friday night, each team is given a random genre for their film. Along with this, every team gets the same featured character with character trait, line of dialog and prop that they must shoehorn in. You then have 48 hours to make a film of no more than 7 minutes length. We were given Animal movie as our genre, and this year the required character was Kerry Post, perfectionist, the prop was a brush and the line of dialog was 'wait a minute'.

The next 2 days were pretty hectic, with some of the team up until late at night writing and editing. Malc was already penciled in as sound man, but for some reason was called in to play the part of Homeless Man at the last minute when the leading man fell ill. After all the hard work by everyone, the final cut was delivered to the finish line with 10 minutes to spare.

A couple of weeks later we got to see the film on the big screen at a local cinema, which was really good fun. We also got to see some of our fellow competitors films, with wildly varying quality. Sadly, we did not make it on to the Christchurch finals, but the whole experience was really good fun. The quality of some of the films is astounding, just check out last years national winner.

So now we are out of the running, we are allowed to publish our film. Here it is for your viewing pleasure, I think you'll agree that Homeless Man pretty much steals the show. The sound is, at best, awful. Which is what you can expect when you get a homeless man to do it.