About the competition and the team.

The 48 hour film competition is an exciting weekend of cinematic madness. Teams are given 48 hours to make a short film - from start to finish.
This year, 2011 we have joined forces by combining 2 Wellington teams - Traces of Nut and The Electric Pink Company. We will be blogging the whole weekend and you can follow us through the highs and lows - so bookmark it and come back and visit us!
The shoot weekend is Friday 20th May to Sunday 22nd May 2011

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Sunday, June 5, 2011

We got in the Wellington Finals!!!!

WELLINGTON


Alpha Bristol Films - "Last Chance" - Road
Cinema in Decline - "Tea Jerker" - Crime
Couch Kumaras - "Sketch" - Road
gin joints - "Intervention" - Horror
Irrational But Cunning - "Sick" - Horror
Moffilaide - "Hot Knights: The Bob, Rob Medieval Bod Swap" - Body Switch
Pancake Pictures - "Sammy" - One-Room
Primer Grey Productions - "Blanking: The Unseen Art" - Fad
Steam - ";" - One-Room
The Avatards - "Fistfull of Crime" - Crime
The Brown Stove - "Fruit Punch" - Rom-Com
Traces of Nut feat. EPC - "Ruby Red" - Musical/Dance

It was a suspenseful wait... got the text from Ruth this morning and we are over the moon!

Monday, May 30, 2011

Our Reviews!!!

http://reviews.v48hours.co.nz/reviews/2011/wellington/16/ruby-red

Ruby Red
by Traces of Nut feat. EPC

Region: Wellington > 16
Genre: Musical/Dance Movie
Average:
4.2
Number of reviews: 5

samwitwicky

Musical is always a tough one and being a fan of other Traces of Nut films I give the team credit for bravely going with a more serious tone, although I will admit I was waiting for an opportunity to laugh.

Some nice individual songs, good sound, very high production values, solid performances and I liked the attention to detail with the old car. Was that the Empire in Island Bay set dressed as a different named picture house? The poignant ending was nicely done.

Robbie Ellis

Damn near perfect. They did a serious musical - hard choice, but they pulled it off. Set in a cabaret bar, the costumes, make-up and demeanour were all fantastic. DOP deserves a medal too.

Richard Falkner's music was convincing. Nice intercutting of the couple on show to the public and couple in private in their dressing room - made that rhyme and was quite impressive. Style-wise the music complemented the visual décor but went further as well - the percussive sequence in the car I thought captured his character's emotion very well. Gemma Boyle's voice and acting were spine-chilling. Picture and audio synced perfectly, as far as I could tell.

What initially felt like disconnected plot elements resolved itself in a very very powerful way. I was going to give this a 4 for confusion until a lightbulb went off and I got it. 5 stars, no question.

I was a dick and only gave them my 2 points in Heat 16. Four reasons:
- This film was head, shoulders, chest and stomach above every other film in the heat, so they didn't need my 3 to win.
- Their whole cast & crew, and the cast & crew's fan club turned up. They didn't need my 3 to add to it.
- I quite liked Typhoid Films' one and I wanted to see it get representation in the audience vote.
- This team wiped the floor with my team in the Musical stakes. Yeah, we had the catchy tune but they had everything else. So I was jealous enough to be a dick and give them only 2.


steelpotato

Ruby curtains give the backdrop for a burlesque-ish singer who sings about love; you can't take it if the other person won't give it to you.

We then go back in time to a jazzy tavern/pub where our lead actor when asked to dance by his gal advises that whilst she will always be his, he's not the sort to meet the parents. Their flirtatious behaviour is too much for the manager of the establishment though, who doesn't want any bloody babies running around.

However that issue does rear its head in short time, but with a bit of wire that issue could be resolved, right? Our lead laments his options; you can't take a child on the road...but it would also mean being a dad.

Quite a serious effort from Traces of Nut/EPC, the set design was phenomenal.

stringbean

Another impressive effort from Traces of Nut, Ruby Red was a serious Cabaret style musical that had some brilliant acting and singing. This was the best in a competitive heat.

The set design was amazing, I couldn't believe the attention to detail, such as the posters and the car. Gemma gave this film a powerful opening, the juxtaposition of the couple was very clever, and their song was great.

The story was solid and I loved how all the strands came together. The cinematography was brilliant - the shots were beautiful and varied.

It was a shame that the group before them had used the same coat-hanger gag as it did detract and take away some of the tension.

I also felt that a small section of the film was weaker than the rest, the section with the Father song up till when we go back into the dressing room, but this is minor considering how good the film was.

Traces of Nut FT EPC have continued to show us why the are one of the most feared teams in 48hours because it's pretty hard to compete with that.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Heats are on

I'm gonna hit some heats tonight and write some reviews... you can read reviews here... of course I'll post up our reviews here after our heat on the 30th.

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Our Heat at Readings Cinema

HEAT SIXTEEN "Reading Cinemas 30 May 2011, 8:45pm"

  • The Rons 12
  • The Unique Suspects Production 10
  • The Worserers 8
  • TOTEM 6
  • Touched by an uncle 4
  • Traces of Nut feat. EPC 2
  • Triangles 11
  • Typhoid Films 9
  • Veritas 7
  • Victims of Success 5
  • Viva La Booba 3

  • After our heat, we can put our film online for you all to see! oops no that's a mistake (thanks Matt) - We have wait til the finalists are announced or even later if we are finalists...

    in!!! 6.59.47

    woop!