Roberts Film Blog

 Wasp: The short film's plot consists of a young single mother named Zoe, 4, living in poverty in Dartford, struggling to find food for her and her children, when one day her ex-boyfriend drives by and asks her to go on a date, pretending that her children are not really hers, as she is afraid that he will go on like her and abandon them for hours, as she is on her date.The key shots used in the film are close ups of the characters faces to show their feelings this shot was normally used on the mother as we see her reaction to leave her children and the children faces, the colours and lighting are exceptionally bright for the darker tone of the film as in most of the film's natural colours such as greens and whites. The blues stand out most and the natural lighting tends to emphasise those colours. The minimalist style with no non-diegetic music being present in the entire movie and the camera moving to handheld adds authenticity to the movie and plot. Conflict is present ...

 short films: The Wrong Trousers is a short film, produced by British stop-motion in 1993, directed by Nick Park at Aardman Animations featuring his characters Wallace and Gromit. It is the second film, after A Grand Day Out (1989), featuring the inventor Wallace (voiced by Peter Sallis) and his dog Gromit. Throughout the film, a sinister penguin uses the robotic Trousers used by Wallace and Gromit to steal a diamond. genres of short films: animation  witch has genres of 2D/ 3D / motion graphics comedy witch has genres of dark comedy/ anti humour/ shock humour  drama witch has genres of classical/ comedy/ romance  documentary witch has genres of animation/ interview/ poetic horror witch has genres of mystery/ comedy/ Gothic fiction romance witch has genres of fantasy/ mystery/ humour  thriller witch has genres of crime/ action/psychological sci-fi / fantasy  witch has genres of alien/ cyberpunk/ superhero...

the product of their environment One way in which the characters of the film are a product of their surroundings is the pub vs restaurant theme that is present throughout the entire film and is a divider between Liz and Shaun. Liz has more middle class views overall, saying she doesn't want to waste the rest of her life At the pub every day, offering the general premise that restaurants are safer and the alternative that is more "grown up" (lamer). We may presume that Liz had a middle-class upbringing, like most characters in the film, and her opinions of restaurant over pub are possibly a result of her upbringing, after her parents had a relationship with her. Her entire mission is to try to make Shaun a middle -Adult gender, and to her, the only way to really be an adult is to be a middle-class adult, not realising the life Shaun is experiencing as an adult. Another way we see the film's middle-class values is through Shaun's wife, Yvonne, who has a c...