British Comedy Guide

Arthouse cinema - Deep Catalyst

Here's one of the films we're considering entering for the International Comedy Film Festival. Would be good to get some feedback.

http://ladma.net/pages/films/deepcatalyst.htm

Won't load for me mate :(

Oh dear. Maybe try this?

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=8912654

Man i thought that was great. I think the pretentious actor and director are of course by no means unique but they're so well written and realised they serve as a great archetype (shit this piece is rubbing off on me!)
The soundguy though is just brilliant and the opening jokes in the main feature highlighting his 'work' are impeccable.

If this is still a piece you look to exhibit to producers etc. i think i'd lose the last 2mins or so of the main feature. It's inventive sure but superflous and not specifically comical and you know how producers always ask for a 10 minute short. Still this is way talented, you should be very proud.

Great material, as per usual. Agree with the above that some trimming wouldn't go amiss. be ruthless !

While there are some good lines here, and the genre you're parodying is skewered well, it's just too long.

I think it would benefit not only from some drastic cutting but also a re-edit. I'd suggest splicing some of the feature into the interview itself. You'd tease out some more laughs that way as you cut from the pretentious hyperbole to the overwrought direction and art school acting.

Great, thanks for the feedback everyone. As usual it's trim, trim, trim! But it can be so hard when you get precious about your work.

We'd actually thought of splicing some of the feature into the interview itself but we wanted to create a stand alone short at the end. I guess maybe it's caught between two things - a spoof films and a mockumentary. But, having been to loads of short film nights/festivals we really wanted to lampoon all the pretentious shit we'd seen. Just because something's in black and white and set to strange music doesn't make it profound or intelligent!

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