The Row

This team achieved a lot with their visuals, but this was let down by disappointing audio, and weak lyrics. This was a very, very nice looking film (my notes say "Lighting like a boss"), and was well-shot. Only quibble with the visuals would be the lack of feeling of motion of the vehicle during the car ride. Unfortunately, the lyrics of the songs lacked humour, or emotional impact. The accents of the characters, too, were inconsistent. The audio during the singing was very tinny, and often difficult to understand. In future, it would be nice to see the rest of the team's aspects match the high quality of their visual design.

Two cops take two prisoners to prison in the car, singing all the way. Pro's - Nice looking car. Con's - I don't really want to say too much about this one - let's just say musicals are a bitch. Overall - According to SWT this was very polished technically, and I'll take his or her word on that. Sorry to say it didn't work for me.

I wish the audio was better as I felt I missed what the characters were singing about. Wouldn't mind watching this film again to hear the lyrics. Hard genre to work with

I had the good fortune of sitting close enough to the awesome Mr Storey and his crate of sparkly PA toys. I watched, with mild fascination, as he conjoured considerable magic in an attempt to get this flick to sound better than a McDonald drive-through speaker. At one point he grabbed at his hair and, defeated, gave up. Damn. A fine fine flick, with an authentic Yankee car, (great detailing in the signwriting btw) and I loved the scorpion tattoo detail. Did you see the inmates jumpsuits had TFD stenciled on them?! Nice. A flick with plenty of art, great lighting, very good details and clearly they had the determination to make something really good. But the audio! Oh! In a musical, is so very important. Sadly, flawed at the audio mixdown, we were left with a thin reedy finish. and a frustrating experience it was. They're certainly able, lyrically, to carry the story off. If only we could hear them. Long Texan Drawl "If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. And you boys did do the crime, didn't you?!" The plot, while solid, was a little thin, like the audio mix. Lockpicking, (with the wire, of course) didn't seem to make too much sense, as they ran away from the cops anyhoo. Greg et al, are fine film-makers, with skill and ability in abundance. Previous outings by them , in other guises, have always been a treat. The interior lighting of the copcar was superb, a little underdone in terms of outside reference points, and the car didn't really look like it was travelling, (more like waiting at that McDonalds.) But good all the same. Costuming: Fine. Details: Very good. Story: OK. Editing: All good. Audio: Ah nuts, here we are again.

[Watched this in the screening room] Starts of with two convicts and two cops in a car. They are chatting away and then bam! Well this one caught me by surprise! Didn't realise it was a musical until the tough guy in the back opened his mouth and instead of words out came beautiful lyrics on a beautiful voice. It picked up from there with a round of singing for each person (excluding sadly the guy with the beard.. was looking forward to his part!). Followed by the car stopping, and the convicts attempting to flee, and being shot in the ending freeze frame. I liked this film, the minutes shot by and the singing was really good (especially the bald convict). It was a nice little story that was professional, well polished, and original. Good direction of the whole thing by Robert Holt as all the elements come together nicely. It kinda felt like it was shorter then it actually was (probably because of using just one location for the majority of the film). Greg Inwood was charming and entertaining as the sheriff, I could easily watch him alongside William Shatner hunting down the bad guys in T.J. Hooker. I really liked the scene where his laughing subtly turns to sobbing! Something about his eyes is also pretty amazing, great expressiveness. Andrea Beryl has a sticking quality about her, a youthful quality trying to breakout of years of dull oppression.. I really felt connected to her character and that she had an elaborate back story even though it wasn't mentioned, great acting! The two convicts were I thought very well cast. I really liked how there was the young guy and the mature guy, thrown together into a social situation they usually wouldn't be in. It was the Jason Statham lookalike ta ht blew me away, i'm not sure if it was a voice over or his voice, but an amazing voice coming from that bald tattooed head. A nice solid script, looks like some effort was put in here and paid off. The end is a little unbelievable but hey, it's a musical (and everyone is bobbing their heads!). Amazing costumes, set (the cop car) and lighting. Could be strait from Dukes of Hazard! Nice to see an original music score, very well done. While this was a great film, it feels like it would better for a 3min film rather then 6. I feel it would have been better if - The car was moving! even some light shaking would have been a good idea. I saw some shaking for exterior shots, however mayby it distracted from the singing. - Some sweeping shots of the actors when they are singing, just to add to the grandure of the whole thing and keep the interest visually. If you want to know what I mean then check out the table scene from this entry from last year: http://www.v48hours.co.nz/screening-room/2010/christchurch/bechamel--whi... - More locations. This i think is the key, you had great actors, some solid cinematography, sound editing, story... everything a good film needs. It was original, just needed a bit more scope. If you had started in some jail cells even, the inclusion of one or two more sets would have made this great film even greater, and finals material. Keep up the great work guys! Looking forward to seeing you next year putting your excellent film making skills to (hopefully) more epic and grand film making!

[Watched this in the screening room] Starts of with two convicts and two cops in a car. They are chatting away and then bam! Well this one caught me by surprise! Didn't realise it was a musical until the tough guy in the back opened his mouth and instead of words out came beautiful lyrics on a beautiful voice. It picked up from there with a round of singing for each person (excluding sadly the guy with the beard.. was looking forward to his part!). Followed by the car stopping, and the convicts attempting to flee, and being shot in the ending freeze frame. I liked this film, the minutes shot by and the singing was really good (especially the bald convict). It was a nice little story that was professional, well polished, and original. Good direction of the whole thing by Robert Holt as all the elements come together nicely. It kinda felt like it was shorter then it actually was (probably because of using just one location for the majority of the film). Greg Inwood was charming and entertaining as the sheriff, I could easily watch him alongside William Shatner hunting down the bad guys in T.J. Hooker. I really liked the scene where his laughing subtly turns to sobbing! Something about his eyes is also pretty amazing, great expressiveness. Andrea Beryl has a sticking quality about her, a youthful quality trying to breakout of years of dull oppression.. I really felt connected to her character and that she had an elaborate back story even though it wasn't mentioned, great acting! The two convicts were I thought very well cast. I really liked how there was the young guy and the mature guy, thrown together into a social situation they usually wouldn't be in. It was the Jason Statham lookalike ta ht blew me away, i'm not sure if it was a voice over or his voice, but an amazing voice coming from that bald tattooed head. A nice solid script, looks like some effort was put in here and paid off. The end is a little unbelievable but hey, it's a musical (and everyone is bobbing their heads!). Amazing costumes, set (the cop car) and lighting. Could be strait from Dukes of Hazard! Nice to see an original music score, very well done. While this was a great film, it feels like it would better for a 3min film rather then 6. I feel it would have been better if - The car was moving! even some light shaking would have been a good idea. I saw some shaking for exterior shots, however mayby it distracted from the singing. - Some sweeping shots of the actors when they are singing, just to add to the grandure of the whole thing and keep the interest visually. If you want to know what I mean then check out the table scene from this entry from last year: http://www.v48hours.co.nz/screening-room/2010/christchurch/bechamel--whi... - More locations. This i think is the key, you had great actors, some solid cinematography, sound editing, story... everything a good film needs. It was original, just needed a bit more scope. If you had started in some jail cells even, the inclusion of one or two more sets would have made this great film even greater, and finals material. Keep up the great work guys! Looking forward to seeing you next year putting your excellent film making skills to (hopefully) more epic and grand film making!