WANKSY - Graffiti Grime Artist

This was a tale of madness in a mad world and it was fantastic. I liked the title sequence. The main actor was far and away the star of the show here. He did an amazing job of being a totally manic cleaniphile. I would love to see some behind-the-scenes footage of what he was like before and after a lot of those shots. The cleaning sequences were great, and the motion-tracked effects were well done. I really liked the sequence where he started making art in the dirt of the car windows. The pen drawings were great, too, as you must have had someone with some good traditional artistic chops on your team. I loved the music in the cleaning scene. The audio levels were all over the place during the "bleeping" scene, but it was hilarious regardless. Great music during the credits, and excellent ending. Overall the concept for this was very clever and well-done. Mighty impressive for a 48-hour stint, especially out of Timaru! (I keed, I keed). Things to work on: There were a few technical glitches: a few odd fade to blacks, and some weird auto-focus stuff a couple of times, but it was overall really solid. The credits were really hard to read as they zoomed by, but I liked the effect/style you applied to them. Awesome work, guys (and/or gals?)!

Awesome, make a sequel!

Funny in some places ( I particularly enjoyed the thug's speech), but the main character was very annoying! Yes, I get that it was characterisation, but he was far and away too erratic for my taste. Very interesting premise however, and I really enjoyed the Einstein reference!

Wow done guys. for a first effort it was quite entertaining. how did you get those huge images on the wall? did you really scrub them on? i'm sure you didn't... did you? that main character guy was perfect for the part. liked the flash back to the car window.

Interesting idea! Very funny but just a real shame the cuts, glitches and some shot choices let you guys down. But if you guys are as creative next year, and really tighten your production up the rewards could be endless! Hope to see you next year fellas!

What 48hours teams who do mockumentaries too often forget is the structure of journalistic storytelling, but happily these guys pretty much nailed it. So we had an introduction to the man (the eponymous “Wanksy”) and his work, we see him out doing his thing, we talk to him at home and learn about the real person behind the public persona, we delve into where it all began, some personal history, we interview other people who know or know of him. And then it’s the build up to the big new project, the drama of whether success or failure awaits. I really liked the idea, and the execution was pretty damn good. It took me a while to realise that the murals weren’t physically real, so big thumbs up for the effects on that. The guy playing Wanksy was easily one of the most memorable performances of the night (and I saw all three heats), a big, theatrical character that by rights shouldn’t have worked in film, but somehow seemed to, his manic glee and bulging eyes popping right out of the screen. Perhaps it might have been nice to have just a brief moment of quiet introspection from Wanksy, as a rare glimpse of another side to his personality; the constant assault of his intensity left one rather breathless. And maybe the ending was slightly more hammy than it needed to be, and deviated a little bit from the documentary form. But still a really neat effort, and one of my favourites from this heat.

A mockumentary about Wansky, a street artist who creates his (Banksy-like) images my styling the grime on walls into pop-culture portraits. He is obsessive-compulsive about dirt and grime and journeys deeper into his obsession as the film progresses. The outstanding features in this were the acting of the lead and the clever use of the images he produced (although they were hardly original in style) - they were damn convincing looking on the walls! The fast-forwarding/time-lapse of Wanksy at work was well executed and in general, this was a polished film. I did think the voice-over was quite echoy and the casting of the two young women as former girlfriends of Wanksy was a bit strange. I thought the story was going to really go places but it really just set itself on repeat and there was no real change in the character of Wanksy - he just upped his OTTness. Still, a pretty interesting effort.

This was a tale of madness in a mad world and it was fantastic. I liked the title sequence. The main actor was far and away the star of the show here. He did an amazing job of being a totally manic cleaniphile. I would love to see some behind-the-scenes footage of what he was like before and after a lot of those shots. The cleaning sequences were great, and the motion-tracked effects were well done. I really liked the sequence where he started making art in the dirt of the car windows. The pen drawings were great, too, as you must have had someone with some good traditional artistic chops on your team. I loved the music in the cleaning scene. The audio levels were all over the place during the "bleeping" scene, but it was hilarious regardless. Great music during the credits, and excellent ending. Overall the concept for this was very clever and well-done. Mighty impressive for a 48-hour stint, especially out of Timaru! (I keed, I keed). Things to work on: There were a few technical glitches: a few odd fade to blacks, and some weird auto-focus stuff a couple of times, but it was overall really solid. The credits were really hard to read as they zoomed by, but I liked the effect/style you applied to them. Awesome work, guys (and/or gals?)!

What 48hours teams who do mockumentaries too often forget is the structure of journalistic storytelling, but happily these guys pretty much nailed it. So we had an introduction to the man (the eponymous “Wanksy”) and his work, we see him out doing his thing, we talk to him at home and learn about the real person behind the public persona, we delve into where it all began, some personal history, we interview other people who know or know of him. And then it’s the build up to the big new project, the drama of whether success or failure awaits. I really liked the idea, and the execution was pretty damn good. It took me a while to realise that the murals weren’t physically real, so big thumbs up for the effects on that. The guy playing Wanksy was easily one of the most memorable performances of the night (and I saw all three heats), a big, theatrical character that by rights shouldn’t have worked in film, but somehow seemed to, his manic glee and bulging eyes popping right out of the screen. Perhaps it might have been nice to have just a brief moment of quiet introspection from Wanksy, as a rare glimpse of another side to his personality; the constant assault of his intensity left one rather breathless. And maybe the ending was slightly more hammy than it needed to be, and deviated a little bit from the documentary form. But still a really neat effort, and one of my favourites from this heat.