Roberts Film Blog

Short Films: Wallace and gromit the wrong trousers is experiment in many ways, the main way it is experimental is having only one characters speak, this make sense as animals cannot speak, humans in the film are show to be stupid but smart at the same time whilst animals are shown to be the smart ones. this film has lots of oxymoron's in it as the main character Wallace is an inverter but someone who is very stupid, this shows that the film doesn't follow stereotypes. this is also shown with gromit as stereotypes of dogs are shown not to be as smart as humans, and gromit in the show is shown as the hero as he is smart and quick witted. Wallace and gromit has a playful atmosphere although it has some deep tones with the playful music over someone trying to get killed with a penguin with a gun it is also very weird to see a crime show animated as the genre of Wallace and gromit is crime and animation i think they execute it well as it mixes in with the stupid com...

La Jetee This French science fiction short film was made in 1962 and sticks to this genre as we are shown the tests on time travel as the man being tested has research equipment attached to him like tubes coming out of his eyes and the setting is underground as the film is set in a post-nuclear wartime world helps to establish this atmosphere of science fiction as images of war torn France are used to Portray the destruction of nuclear weapons.The film uses a number of still images in the film using a photo-assembly and rarely uses any video because the narration is provided by a narrator explaining the tale of what happened and telling the storey of a prisoner being experimented on, the colours used throughout the film are black and white. The narrative structure uses conventions such as how the narrative comes into full circle, but their resolution is not new, but an ending as the film begins with an underground prisoner experimented on as the scientists investigate ...

Elephant by Alan Clarke One interesting thing about this movie is the lack of dialogue within it, relying on other sound effects, as well as other film form aspects. One advantage of choosing to leave most of the dialogue out of the short film is that it forces the audience to pay attention to the other aspects of the film, as well as to make the other, no dialect sound, portrayed as louder and more jarring. Within this short film, this is especially useful in making the many gun shots heard in the film , making each of the shots stand out in the minds of the public. Another way in which the film focuses the audience's attention on the film's brutality is by repeated long lingering shots on the bodies of victims. The use of these shots draws the viewer's attention to the brutality of the crimes being performed,there is nothing to divert from the victims, the mind is concentrated solely on the victim, the lack of sound means there is nothing t...