Love Burns - Slapstick Surgery /48Hours 2009

Alex Puddle tries to combat the boredom of working alone in a cremetorium.

This was team Slapstick Surgerys entry into the 2009 48hours New Zealand film competition. We ended up getting the movie shown in the Reading cinema.


The idea of the competition is that you get randomly assigned a genre, a prop, a chracter with a quirk and also a line of dialogue.
Ours were: Big Twist (genre), A rock (prop), an exaggerator (quirk) named Alex Puddle and the line "It doesn't fit". Then we get 48 hours precisely to script, record sound and video, edit and submit it. We went for an animation again this year.

The cinema audience loved it anyway, here is our review by the Wellington reviewer:

Steelpotato

Team Name: Slapstick Surgery / Genre: Big Twist / "Love Burns"

Not disqualified like the voting sheet said! Would be a tragedy if they didnt win audience favouriteAnyway an undertaker has a fairly cruisy job, only every so often having to use his cremation machine. It means he can relax at his desk, and comfort his daughter when she calls him. However some gangsters bust into the premises with a coffin and demand for the machine to be used. Jaw-dropping twist followed.

Story: 5 / Acting: 4 / Elements: 3 / Technical: 3 / Overall: 5


Team Slapstick Surgery are:
Anthony Scally (Animator/Editor, voice of Thug 2)
Ash McPherson (Writer)
Steve Cochran (Artist, voice of Alex)
Richard Hallam (Sound editor, Voice of Thug 1)

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• LoveBurns

[GraeHunter]

Sweet, great stuff lads.