09 The Kidnap?

This video was was written and filmed in a 24 hour period (usually we work on the script at least a week before making them, so this was very last minute). The script was originally about a simple kidnapping but since it had been written in a hurry there were a few flaw in it, as the acting began the story took a slightly different turn.

We also didn't put much thought into the problems we could have with such a location, we were standing right next to a large pipe that looked (and sounded) suspiciously like a sewage pipe. Sure enough while we were filming the pipe would periodically flush.

08 Super Sheep

After watching Alice's incredible man-woman Sophie felt that she too wanted to branch out and be a little bit different and so Super-Sheep is born!

It is true that the reason Sophie has this fully body sheep outfit is because she found it on sale one day and couldn't resist. What the video doesn't say is that Sophie found the sheep outfit in the children's section of the Te Papa gift store, and decided it would be appropriate to try it on (over her clothes) in the middle of the store. Needless to say the kids were impressed, the mothers were not.

07 Avant-garde

Beware, the title of this one may be a little misleading. Avant-garde was written by Alice and is based on some footage that was filmed some years ago.

Warning - please watch the video before reading this as it may contain traces of spoilers. The strange footage of Alice dancing originated from an idea that Alice and a friend had many years ago at an age too young to be disclosed about a Boy-Girl growing up to be a Man-Woman. This man-woman then spends his-her days going door to door asking people if they prefer men or woman, the footage is of Alice playing that character.

Edit - the observant watchers may notice there is a spelling mistake in this video, it has been noted and the responsible parties will be having a spelling test before the next one.

News Letter

To keep people up-to-date with unzipped we have created a weekly news letter that will go out after the weekly video is posted.

If you would like to be added to the mailing list then please send an email to UnzippedNZ@gmail.com.

We will also be changing the day the video is uploaded from a Monday to a Tuesday (just to give us some more time to edit).

06 Documentary

One day Sophie and Alice get a bright idea, sadly Marian didn't feel the same.

This was a very fun video to make although we carried some continuity errors with us from the last video, again we are going to pretend we did this on purpose.

05 Continuity Disaster

The long awaited disaster video is finally here!

Marian is getting very into her continuity book and for some reason Alice have been left in charge of filming that day.

You may notice throughout this video there are many continuity errors, we are going to go with the whole we-meant-to-do-that thing - and it does go with the title well. We may have been so focused on the line we forgot some basic continuity checks.

04 No Alice

Hours after filming our last video Alice had her appendix taken out, at the time of filming she didn't even know she was sick. Without her Marian and Sophie decided to film a get well video.

Note: This was filmed a few weeks ago, Alice has now made a full recovery and just has some nice scars to show for it. Alice also didn't know about this video until after it had been uploaded.

Production Note: Some clever person split their soy chai latte on the tape, as a result some of the footage was lost, hence why it doesn't start with a wide shot.

03 Attack of the Writers Block

This story was written by Alice and the script was done by Sophie. Before you think there is something wrong with your eyes I am going to admit that we may not have done the white balance for this one, resulting in a lovely blue tinge to everything.

Attack of the Writers Block is pretty much based on the first meeting we had together.

02 Flat News

Not every flat has its own news programme, but this one does! Sit back, relax and enjoy the weekend news.

Marian came up with this idea and was originally going to be the news anchor, however as we filmed on a Sunday she was too hungover to do it. A sick Sophie steeped up and apart from the red nose and the nasal voice it all worked well. All news stories are based on actual events.

01 Weird Stuff Sophie Feeds us

Video number one is finally here!

One fine Sunday Sophie decided to try and create the most awesomest cocktail in the world, sadly after trying four or five of them she would get distracted and forget to make notes. Marian and Alice had nothing better to do and so to lend Sophie a hand they volunteered to taste her creations.

Needless to say for this one we didn't really have a script, after attempting to edit it we decided that it would be a lot easier for everyone if we did start writing a script. It was still a lot of fun to make!

Welcome

Welcome to unzipped!

Six weeks ago three people sat down to brainstorm some short film ideas, the goal was to write, shoot and edit a 2-5 min video every week. Just like that unzipped was born, our production values are non existent and our crew only three people large, but it is a start.

From this moment on we plan to upload a video to this blog every Monday, we cant promise they will be good, but that doesn't matter as we are having too much fun making them to care!