Connor O'Malley is a content creator I have been aware of for many years now, and when I saw this video on youtube one day, I didn't know what to expect. It was only after I watched it that I heard that the film was originally paywalled on his website, and I can see why. There was so much effort poured into this film, and Connor really took a big gamble when he went from his silly shitposts to this dramatic piece.
The Mask follows Tyler Joseph in a typical story of a small town kid with aspirations in the entertainment industry. He's also a fan of Who's Line Is It Anyway?, and records everything he does and posts it online. We are meant to sympathize with Tyler when we are shown his relationship with his grandmother, who passes away early in the film. The first six or seven minutes of this film do not interest me so much as the latter half, when Tyler arrives in Hollywood.
Where The Mask really shines through is in the little moments: The people who ignore Tyler when he's trying to improvise on the streets, the acting consultant who it appears to scam Tyler, the incredibly realistic facebook comments. In this short film Connor finds lookalikes for John Mayer and Colin Mochrie, uses AI voices to imitate famous people, and blurs the faces of nonactors. This makes the film a mess, but its a good mess and adds to the chaos of the overall experience.
In the end I'm very impressed with how this film turned out, and I've been unable to stop thinking about it for months. I would love to see Connor make another project like this in the future, and I would support him financially to make it happen.
The Mask follows Tyler Joseph in a typical story of a small town kid with aspirations in the entertainment industry. He's also a fan of Who's Line Is It Anyway?, and records everything he does and posts it online. We are meant to sympathize with Tyler when we are shown his relationship with his grandmother, who passes away early in the film. The first six or seven minutes of this film do not interest me so much as the latter half, when Tyler arrives in Hollywood.
Where The Mask really shines through is in the little moments: The people who ignore Tyler when he's trying to improvise on the streets, the acting consultant who it appears to scam Tyler, the incredibly realistic facebook comments. In this short film Connor finds lookalikes for John Mayer and Colin Mochrie, uses AI voices to imitate famous people, and blurs the faces of nonactors. This makes the film a mess, but its a good mess and adds to the chaos of the overall experience.
In the end I'm very impressed with how this film turned out, and I've been unable to stop thinking about it for months. I would love to see Connor make another project like this in the future, and I would support him financially to make it happen.
