Dice to Meet You

How am I the first review here! I am honoured to be the city manager for this team/teams - I've never seen a School Team use the two-for-one deal to make essentially a ten minute film. Good on you guys.

The story set-up and some of the plot machinations are great here - I think the Dungeons & Dragons/Stranger Things route was a clever place to go, with some really resourceful green screen work when you get to the cult/cave.

I'm not sure if the VHS filter applied atop the film really added anything though - was this an 80s reference to Stanger Things? If so, Stranger Things itself doesn't use that filter, so I'm not sure why it was used here.

I also think some of these scenes are pretty inaudible with some of the loudest background sound I've ever heard, where essentially the sound of "nothing" was drowning out the dialogue - something to watch out for next time.

I absolutely loved your "Next Episode" button which played over the credits - genius, a really fun way to play with the heats,

Challenge for next year: Get that audio improved. Get your microphone as close to your subjects as possible without getting seen on camera, especially for scenes set outside.

As someone who works within the Selwyn District, it's great to see Rolleston College doing 48HRS. And, by doing as, AJ suggests a 10-minute film done in an episodic fashion they've put something together not seen for a wee while in the comp.

Overall, it's an enjoyable, watchable romp with some Monty Pythonesque moments (the mum) and the occasional interesting pieces of dialogue such as the fashion quips. A lot of the dialogue doesn't really drive the story much, seems a bit improvised and therefore becomes repetitive. Something else to think about are your available locations. The initial meeting between the girl and boy was a bit uninspired - oh look, it's Rolleston College in the background. Being at a bus stop or maybe there was a pick-up point where the two were taken away in hoods would have added a lot to this scene which just came across as awkward. Wasn't helped by some dodgy audio at points too.

A lot of ambition in this short though but it wouldn't really stand on its own without the second part which is...