WARNING: Cars were hurt in the making of team Kratos’s entry in the VF48Hours filmmaking competition. But the story of a man whose attempts at taking a much-needed holiday are frustrated by random incidents won Kratos first place. The crew was made up of cameraman Jordan Perry, audio editor Clarke Allen, lighting man JK, and Loin Rofe who organised the cars. Actor Jol Sparks (pictured) was the would-be holidaymaker, Matt Rofe played the leaf blower man, Pat Butler was the campground owner while Jonathan Poole, Wayne Ensor, Grant Ensor, and Mike Morrissey added to the bogan scenes. Picture supplied
WARNING: Cars were hurt in the making of team Kratos’s entry in the VF48Hours filmmaking competition. But the story of a man whose attempts at taking a much-needed holiday are frustrated by random incidents won Kratos first place. The crew was made up of cameraman Jordan Perry, audio editor Clarke Allen, lighting man JK, and Loin Rofe who organised the cars. Actor Jol Sparks (pictured) was the would-be holidaymaker, Matt Rofe played the leaf blower man, Pat Butler was the campground owner while Jonathan Poole, Wayne Ensor, Grant Ensor, and Mike Morrissey added to the bogan scenes. Picture supplied
For the second year in a row the Kratos film crew has won this region’s VF 48Hours filmmaking competition.
A twist to the theme of time travel earned team Kratos first place in last year’s filmmaking competition in which entrants are given a genre and a range of elements toinclude in their short films and 48 hours to produce them.
Given the theme “the holiday” this year, cameraman Jordan Perry, audio editor Clarke Allen, lighting man JK, lead actor Jol Sparks and other team Kratos members created The Noise Of Life in which a man in need of a holiday is pushed to the edge.
The ending is ultimately happy. Getting there, not so much.
Along with the holiday, the 13 randomly assigned genres tackled by the 48Hours filmmaking competitors included the gross-out or cringe comedy; the opposites attract, secret identity, wrong place/wrong time, coming-of-age, science fiction, musical/dance, time travel, generation gap, nature-run-amok, real time, or buddy movies. Compulsory elements to be included in each film this year were wind, a double take, laughter and an overhead shot.
Runner-up in the Gisborne competition was Vertically Challenged with their short film The World needs Laughter. while Yeah Nah Entertainment was second runner-up with Big Brother Jak.
Finalists were Butterfly Hill Productions with their film Tindda Cringer, Cowps Productions’ Paradise Forbidden; Kaiti Vice by Handsome Knights, Sigh School Musical by Re: Pete, Love in the Modern World’s film The Alter of Venus, The Underground’s Happy Holidays, and Toro Ake’s film Kopu.
Jol Sparks was named best director in the category awards while Vertically Challenged’s Amanda Maclean was among local recipients of the WIFT Outstanding Female Filmmaker Award. Maclean, and Mikey Jones, also of Vertically Challenged, and Yeah Nah Entertainment’s Jak Cox were among recipients of the Best Performer award.
