Award-Winning 48-hour film short: Twist

[Jesse Brauning]

Winner of the 2011 Prairie Grass Film Challenge (www.dordt.edu/filmchallenge).
Won $500 and a sweet glass trophy.
Shot on a Gh-2 with Minolta lenses.
It's called Twist.

 

[PJF]

A great concept, nicely rounded. Very enjoyable.

I felt it needed more obvious bewilderment, and subsequent discovery / resolution, by the protagonist in the first stages of... -[spoiler avoidance]-. Following scenes were handled well.

Wish I could come up with top ideas like this.

 

[Jesse Brauning]

That's a great point. Thanks. The first room, in which he needs to find the key, could have used better acting - since at this point he really shouldn't have had any idea of what was going on.
As for the idea part, we had a room full of people brainstorming and we listened to everyone, and this is what I decided was the best concept that we came up with.