Short Film
House Hunters & Gatherers
A stone-age real-estate comedy and an early lesson in location, collaboration and the half-second mechanics of a joke.
- Year
- 2015
- Client
- SAE student production
- Location
- Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park
My role
- Writer
- Director
- Co-Editor
- Casting
- Location Scouting
Selected credits
- Producer: John Cross
- Editor: Tyson Di Rosa
- Production Design: Angie Sora
- Art Direction: Madeleine Woods
- Cast: Jamie Treselyan, Crystal Moran and Ben Betts
The project
Ug and Oot are searching for a better cave. Their prehistoric real-estate agent has options; unfortunately, every property is worse than the last.
The approach
We carried the production into Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park to build a believable world from available landscapes and a student budget. In post, repeated revisions with editor Tyson Di Rosa taught me how dramatically a pause can change a joke.
What remained
It is an early film, and that is part of why it belongs here: it marks the point where directing, writing and editing began to feel like interconnected parts of the same process.
Visual gallery
Inside the world
Next project
FEVER at The Old Bar