Sleep on a clothesline

Vic plays around with some tarot cards. As he flips them they stimulate memories that play out through song and shadow-puppets. A pretty slick production this, with nice variation in filming, a moody tone and good sound. While the music is great and there is obvious talent within the group it seemed a little "one-voiced" and the music really only served to fill the sequences as separate pieces rather than really driving the story as is typical in musicals. However, maybe this was the point. For me though there was a lack of pace and it all become slightly tediuous. Great shadow puppert work though - those things must have taken hours to cut out!

An intriguing concept for a Musical here, with some beautiful artistry on display. I don't know if the shadow puppets were made on the weekend or you had them already, but there were some lovely details in them, and competent use of the medium. The only downside with this was the similarity with last year's city winner, and so the impact was diminished somewhat. The first shadow scene with the two lovers meeting felt very slow, with not much happening for quite some time, but thankfully the subsequent sections were a lot more dense with fun ideas. Musically this was quite an accomplished piece. Both the music and vocal stylings reminded me a bit of Greg Johnson, and I suppose his brand of smoky late-night pop-jazz is entirely inappropriate for a story about an insomniac. I felt the songs were sometimes a bit too similar to one another, and so the whole thing often had the feel of a song cycle, rather than a strong narrative with forward momentum. And the device of the tarot cards, while interesting, meant that the energy of the story kept getting reset back to a neutral state at the end of each song. Also, I didn't quite get the whole Uno 'Skip' card thing at the end - am I missing a joke here? So yeah, as a unified piece it didn't quite hang together for me, and yet all its parts were really well made. And it is a rarity to have a 48Hours musical that seeks to take a relatively serious tone, so well done for mostly committing to that.

Nice editing/shots on the intro. Creepy music/sound effects. Nice work doing the dolly shot and focus pull in one go. Great music/song during the shadow puppets. They looked great, too. Great performances by the vocalists and great music. Great work on the shadow puppets, they looked fantastic. Really liked the duck attacking the bear and winning. Cool close-up shots of Vic. Throwing the car onto the bystander was great. Not totally sure how the ending slots in, but the editing was once again pretty cool.

An intriguing concept for a Musical here, with some beautiful artistry on display. I don't know if the shadow puppets were made on the weekend or you had them already, but there were some lovely details in them, and competent use of the medium. The only downside with this was the similarity with last year's city winner, and so the impact was diminished somewhat. The first shadow scene with the two lovers meeting felt very slow, with not much happening for quite some time, but thankfully the subsequent sections were a lot more dense with fun ideas. Musically this was quite an accomplished piece. Both the music and vocal stylings reminded me a bit of Greg Johnson, and I suppose his brand of smoky late-night pop-jazz is entirely inappropriate for a story about an insomniac. I felt the songs were sometimes a bit too similar to one another, and so the whole thing often had the feel of a song cycle, rather than a strong narrative with forward momentum. And the device of the tarot cards, while interesting, meant that the energy of the story kept getting reset back to a neutral state at the end of each song. Also, I didn't quite get the whole Uno 'Skip' card thing at the end - am I missing a joke here? So yeah, as a unified piece it didn't quite hang together for me, and yet all its parts were really well made. And it is a rarity to have a 48Hours musical that seeks to take a relatively serious tone, so well done for mostly committing to that.