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A Classroom Detective Story
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A Classroom Detective Story is a short film Directed, Edited, Produced by four friends known as The Barnaby Brothers. The entire film is shot in the small town of Devonport located on Auckland's North Shore. The short film was part of a school media studies project in which students were given 8 weeks for pre-production, production and post production. Thomas Newman, Cameron Dey, Zac McEwen and Josh Pilkington, who form The Barnaby Brothers, star in this short film. Plot A Classroom Detective Story is about two detectives, Steve Mason and Barnaby Martin, who are detectives at their highschool. Barnaby is new to the force so Steve mentors and trains him to become a fulltime detective. The film starts of with Steve calling Barnaby about a possible case. A student's phone has been stolen and Steve and Barnaby begin to investigate. Their investigation leads them down a road of corruption, greed, lust, money laundering and violence. Helping Steve and Barnaby with their investigation is Hall Monitor Poe. A former student, Hall Monitor Poe is the middle man between students and the High Command (Principle and Deputy's). Everything Steve and Barnaby do must go through Poe. Their investigation soon reveals Poe's true intentions after a heist in which every cellphone in the school is stolen by master criminal and part-time student, Nic Cage. Steve and Barnaby start hunting down Cage to get to Poe, but it is Cage who gets to Poe first. Only time will tell how far these men will go to stay clean. Characters *Steve Mason - Zac McEwen *Barnaby Martin - Cameron Dey *Hall Monitor Poe - Thomas Newman *Nic Cage - Josh Pilkington *Victim - Mark Jansen *Informant - Brett 'brettttttt' Barnhill Genre and Inspiration The main genre is Film Noir with British Gangster undertones inspired by the film making of Guy Ritchie. The themes in this flm are mainly: crime, punishment, law and order, thievery and violence. The films and also played an important role in the inspiration and genre of this film. Daniel McQuillan, New Zealand producer, director and now teacher, was an important figure in the production of this film. Watch Online You can watch A Classroom Detective Story online for free here: A Classroom Detective Story Trivia *There is a bonus scene that involves Poe committing suicide after Steve and Barnaby discovering his plan. This scene was discarded as the film makers chose to take the story down a different path *The entire film is shot in front of a green screen *The budget of the film was mostly spent on KFC, clothes at Save Mart, fake blood and cap guns *The handguns used in the film are replica .38 snubnose revolvers * The famous Queens Boulevard scene was shot twice, both with different endings. * The final scene was inspired from the fictional film Queens Boulevard from the TV show Entourage See Also
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