Channel Changer

I think for what it's worth in terms of the genre you were given, I found this rather easy to get into and enjoyable considering the very simple set-up. I would have loved a bit more development in the story as it was sometimes hard to see whether or not it was heading anywhere. Nicely done though :)

Quite a boring plot line and but enjoyed sneaky reference to all the teams in the heat at the start. Film went no where, it's a difficult genre but team could have produced something far better!

In POV, Vic watches TV. He flicks through the channels, goes to the fridge, eats, drinks, watches an inspirational film. Not a lot really happens here it must be said. What this short does do is give a nod to characters and films from 48HOURS past and credit must be given to all the little programmes you made for the tv channels you were showing. Fun times!

I thought this was incredible - the execution, the shows that Vic was watching. Even the POV to the extent that Vic was blinking - well done, loved it!

Great intro. Loved it. Lots of laughs from the audience. Nice throwback to Nicky Brick. Nice work with all the stuff filmed for the TV channels. Great graphics. First film I've seen done totally from a POV perspective. Nice work combining the card, line and character all in one blast. Impressive number of bits of footage in the TV thing. Seriously impressive. Loved the Laser Tag bit. Great credits. Not much of a story, I guess, but entertaining.

This film was memorably odd, and strangely compelling, despite any obvious narrative to speak of - indeed, I think this was my favourite of the heat. "Screw doing just a POV shot," the filmmakers said, "let's make a whole POV film!" And so they do, with the thing being a one-shot experience through the eyes of our insomniac hero, sitting on his couch late at night watching telly because he can't sleep. It's Non-Dialogue genre, which isn't hard to justify when there are no other characters present. Even so, we get lots of amusing coughs and grunts and other emotional sounds from our slovenly homebody. He eats and smokes and so forth, and the whole thing has the look and feel of a first-person-shooter computer game at times. But the real gem of this movie is the bespoke content that we see on the television. If I am understanding their process correctly, these 'programmes' were all filmed and edited (including channel changes) first, and then the one-shot is done with the TV playing live, and hence the actor cleverly times his remote control gestures to this. In any case, the TV shows are delightful, ranging from an advert to some laser tag game to an inspirational speaker to sports to an arts show. And then there was the last one, my favourite, some bizarro gorilla and man on bicycles sequence, another man running along behind, all slo-mo, with hysterically happy blippy EuroTrash-esque music playing. Sure, there was no story to speak of, except for the one that you build for yourself from the easter eggs in the film - if anything, the implied story is maybe the ways in which the character is trying to overcome his insomnia. Speaking of which, there were multiple allusions, both gratuitous and subtle, to 48Hours elements, in particular the names of previous required characters. I've seen this done many times before, so much so that it surely deserves a place in the generic 48Hours drinking game. However, despite my weariness with this particular in-joke, I can't deny that it was incorporated very stylishly and thoroughly, so didn't jar so much. So yeah, hard to explain exactly why, but I really liked it. Just the perfect length, for what it was, and the cyklister music was a joyous burst of silliness to cap it off. Great work. And now we all know that the cure to insomnia is cheese singles.

In POV, Vic watches TV. He flicks through the channels, goes to the fridge, eats, drinks, watches an inspirational film. Not a lot really happens here it must be said. What this short does do is give a nod to characters and films from 48HOURS past and credit must be given to all the little programmes you made for the tv channels you were showing. Fun times!

This film was memorably odd, and strangely compelling, despite any obvious narrative to speak of - indeed, I think this was my favourite of the heat. "Screw doing just a POV shot," the filmmakers said, "let's make a whole POV film!" And so they do, with the thing being a one-shot experience through the eyes of our insomniac hero, sitting on his couch late at night watching telly because he can't sleep. It's Non-Dialogue genre, which isn't hard to justify when there are no other characters present. Even so, we get lots of amusing coughs and grunts and other emotional sounds from our slovenly homebody. He eats and smokes and so forth, and the whole thing has the look and feel of a first-person-shooter computer game at times. But the real gem of this movie is the bespoke content that we see on the television. If I am understanding their process correctly, these 'programmes' were all filmed and edited (including channel changes) first, and then the one-shot is done with the TV playing live, and hence the actor cleverly times his remote control gestures to this. In any case, the TV shows are delightful, ranging from an advert to some laser tag game to an inspirational speaker to sports to an arts show. And then there was the last one, my favourite, some bizarro gorilla and man on bicycles sequence, another man running along behind, all slo-mo, with hysterically happy blippy EuroTrash-esque music playing. Sure, there was no story to speak of, except for the one that you build for yourself from the easter eggs in the film - if anything, the implied story is maybe the ways in which the character is trying to overcome his insomnia. Speaking of which, there were multiple allusions, both gratuitous and subtle, to 48Hours elements, in particular the names of previous required characters. I've seen this done many times before, so much so that it surely deserves a place in the generic 48Hours drinking game. However, despite my weariness with this particular in-joke, I can't deny that it was incorporated very stylishly and thoroughly, so didn't jar so much. So yeah, hard to explain exactly why, but I really liked it. Just the perfect length, for what it was, and the cyklister music was a joyous burst of silliness to cap it off. Great work. And now we all know that the cure to insomnia is cheese singles.