Friday 20 November 2015

Short films 2 - Manchester Animation Festival

Analysis of shorts I enjoyed and why:

Teeth - Daniel grey and tom brown
Nice sketchy style dark pencil style. lighting dark and stale along with atmosphere. The sound effects are very effective and realistic, they grate on you, you feel it physically happening and relate it to your teeth. Connotations of death and rotting with the fly motif and white flesh. Obsession with teeth. 

In deep waters - Sarah van den boom
'Underwater tears don't show' really interesting narrative. The animation using props and realistic photographs and objects combined with digital handdrawn 2D animation. There was a really effective scene where a past story was retold using the reflection in tea mug. Oil paint animation was also used in greyscale. Twins that die in womb. Looking fir the one that disappeared.  

The story of Percival pilts
A narrative about a boy that decides to live his whole life on stilts. 'never again should our feet touch the ground again !!' The animation started off with a  birds eye shot composition to reflect this.   Narrated by mark Harlow. All composed effectively with stop motion with some CG components. Nice narrative, enjoyable for children. 

STROMAE: ‘CARMEN' 

Handdrawn style. Music video showing relationship with Twitter dictating our social lives in a negative manner, eventually leaving you in the dirt.


The orchestra
Musical personalities. Making soundtrack to life in retirement home. Represent the noise in their heads ?? It presents ideas of love, as finding your soulmate is finding someone who follows your tune and make an orchestra together 

AMÉLIA & DUARTE

Pixilation library of love lost lovers department. Interesting narrative idea.

The sleepwalker. 
Abstract dream like state. Very sensual with music and animation that is in sync to it perfectly. 

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