The Fly By Night Video Competition 2005
Results and ReviewsWednesday, November 23, 2005
In no particular order...
The following are videos which were submitted to The Fly By Night Video Challenge 2005. Just to refresh your memories, all clips had to be shot and edited within 48 hours, and had to be shorter than five minutes.
There were many more, but this is all that a technorati search turned up on the subject.
*****
Title : Zhi Yao Wei Ni Huo Yi Tian
Winner of the Judges Choice and Audience Choice awards.
Synopsis : Tribute to Kung Fu Hustle
Team Leads : Randy Ang and Nicholas Chee
Remarks : Well I thought it was brilliant. But I was part of it.. and I'm male too - so my objectivity may be impaired. Requires Quicktime by Apple to play.
Re-minisce's Rating : *****
Title : Loser
Winner of Judges Choice Award
Synopsis : About a "loser" who has the worst luck ever. Think Kenny from Southpark, only real-life.
Team Lead : Yee Wei (singaporecritic.blogspot.com)
Remarks : Yee Wei aka Jim Carrey jr acted as the loser. Well shot, deceptively simple, and very, very, very funny. 20 mb download - may take a while to load. Click on the small version if you can't wait.
Re-minisce's Rating : *****
Title : Four Play
Winner of Judges Choice Award
Synopsis : Four guys play mahjong and somehow end up hallucinating...
Team Leads : Unknown at this time
Remarks : Quite funny, and rather ingenious the way they worked in the theme for this year's competition...
Re-minisce's Rating : ****
Title : Upside Down World
Winner of Judges Choice Award
Synopsis : Life in another universe, where swearing is good and being polite is bad. Comes complete with authentic secondary school students and secondary school teacher.
Team Leads : Lots of foul mouth kids and a really rude teacher advisor
Remarks : No video upload at this time. The URL is to one of the 15 year old's blogs, and he writes like a 15 year old... sigh. But there is a transcript of the vid. Gratutious swearing.. like 40 of the other 50 clips... since a bunch of symbols has to be a swear word in Singapore, for some reason... but with an interesting twist. I sorta liked this one. Kudos to their teacher for dreaming it up.
Re-minisce's Rating : ****
Title : WMD (Wise Man Desk) - 50 MB file
Winner of Judges Choice Award and Special Mention Award
Synopsis : Surrealistic satire about Singaporean apathy, errm Wise Man Desk, and sock puppets.
Team Leads : owner of wohouboy.blogspot.com
Remarks : Smaller file here - 20 MB. This was pretty funny and the satire was entertaining. Camerawork was passable... but the sock puppets bit was just... a bit odd. Quirky, but odd. And perhaps it crippled the momentum the clip had been building up to this point.
Re-minisce's Rating : ****
Title : The Undecided
Synopsis : Bunch of guys gets together to shoot a clip for a video conference, brainstorm, and run out of time.
Team Leads : owners of anutshellreview.blogspot.com and movie reviewers of movieXclusive.com
Remarks : Funny, but weak plot. Personally I thought these guys would have done really well if they'd come up with a proper storyline. As it stands... it was kinda entertaining watching them throw it back at the organisers - you want ^#&$*), we'll give you ^#&$*)! They've also done a making-of post.
Re-minisce's Rating : **** - but they sure had fun shooting it
Title : ????
Synopsis : Matrix Spoof
Team Leads : owners of revatechnic.blogspot.com
Remarks : No video upload at this time. I missed see this one.. no idea what it was like.
Re-minisce's Rating : Uncertain
*****
If anyone would like to post a link to their own entry to the competition this year, feel free to leave an URL and I'll update this post when I can.
I will (eventually) start a separate blog page to keep track of entries if you lot are enthusiastic enough.
There were many more, but this is all that a technorati search turned up on the subject.
*****
Title : Zhi Yao Wei Ni Huo Yi Tian
Winner of the Judges Choice and Audience Choice awards.
Synopsis : Tribute to Kung Fu Hustle
Team Leads : Randy Ang and Nicholas Chee
Remarks : Well I thought it was brilliant. But I was part of it.. and I'm male too - so my objectivity may be impaired. Requires Quicktime by Apple to play.
Re-minisce's Rating : *****
Title : Loser
Winner of Judges Choice Award
Synopsis : About a "loser" who has the worst luck ever. Think Kenny from Southpark, only real-life.
Team Lead : Yee Wei (singaporecritic.blogspot.com)
Remarks : Yee Wei aka Jim Carrey jr acted as the loser. Well shot, deceptively simple, and very, very, very funny. 20 mb download - may take a while to load. Click on the small version if you can't wait.
Re-minisce's Rating : *****
Title : Four Play
Winner of Judges Choice Award
Synopsis : Four guys play mahjong and somehow end up hallucinating...
Team Leads : Unknown at this time
Remarks : Quite funny, and rather ingenious the way they worked in the theme for this year's competition...
Re-minisce's Rating : ****
Title : Upside Down World
Winner of Judges Choice Award
Synopsis : Life in another universe, where swearing is good and being polite is bad. Comes complete with authentic secondary school students and secondary school teacher.
Team Leads : Lots of foul mouth kids and a really rude teacher advisor
Remarks : No video upload at this time. The URL is to one of the 15 year old's blogs, and he writes like a 15 year old... sigh. But there is a transcript of the vid. Gratutious swearing.. like 40 of the other 50 clips... since a bunch of symbols has to be a swear word in Singapore, for some reason... but with an interesting twist. I sorta liked this one. Kudos to their teacher for dreaming it up.
Re-minisce's Rating : ****
Title : WMD (Wise Man Desk) - 50 MB file
Winner of Judges Choice Award and Special Mention Award
Synopsis : Surrealistic satire about Singaporean apathy, errm Wise Man Desk, and sock puppets.
Team Leads : owner of wohouboy.blogspot.com
Remarks : Smaller file here - 20 MB. This was pretty funny and the satire was entertaining. Camerawork was passable... but the sock puppets bit was just... a bit odd. Quirky, but odd. And perhaps it crippled the momentum the clip had been building up to this point.
Re-minisce's Rating : ****
Title : The Undecided
Synopsis : Bunch of guys gets together to shoot a clip for a video conference, brainstorm, and run out of time.
Team Leads : owners of anutshellreview.blogspot.com and movie reviewers of movieXclusive.com
Remarks : Funny, but weak plot. Personally I thought these guys would have done really well if they'd come up with a proper storyline. As it stands... it was kinda entertaining watching them throw it back at the organisers - you want ^#&$*), we'll give you ^#&$*)! They've also done a making-of post.
Re-minisce's Rating : **** - but they sure had fun shooting it
Title : ????
Synopsis : Matrix Spoof
Team Leads : owners of revatechnic.blogspot.com
Remarks : No video upload at this time. I missed see this one.. no idea what it was like.
Re-minisce's Rating : Uncertain
*****
If anyone would like to post a link to their own entry to the competition this year, feel free to leave an URL and I'll update this post when I can.
I will (eventually) start a separate blog page to keep track of entries if you lot are enthusiastic enough.
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