Guy 101 is the story of a man who meets a gay guy on a chat site and hears about his unusual encounter with a hitch-hiker. The film is a drama which uses 2d animation and a voice-over to tell it's story. The animation is completely original and brings a really interesting contribution to the film, setting it aside from your average drama.
The beginning of the film uses a dial up connection sound and classic 8-bit animation to show the narrator logging on to the Internet. As the words come into focus on the screen the audience finds themselves in a chat room. The rest of the film uses different types of "old school" computer animation to match the narration. The best scene in my opinion is when we hear about guy 101 driving down the highway and picking up the hitch hiker. As we hear the events discussed we the story unfold in the style of as if it was happening on the Internet. An example of this is in the picture above. The sign above the car says "Hitch-hiker has entered the room".
The sound used in the film is very simple but clever, consisting of the sounds of the Internet, such as dial-up connection, and the constant narration which acts as not only dialogue but also a suspense builder because of the way it's written.
There was no real message I could take from the film. I thought it was shame that the film really played on gay stereotypes, such as the guy having a handlebar moustache, and taking a hitch-hiker home for violent casual sex and claiming his only regret was that he didn't get his number. I wouldn't say the film is intentionally negative to homosexuals but the only point I saw in the film was gay cliches. Guy 101 won a bafta for best original short film in 2007 and best student film at the Bradford Animation Festival for it's "creative use of contempory graphics"
http://www.onedotzero.com/track.php?id=89&dvd=2810311
http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/BAF/2006/review.asp
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