Evaluation for depict task

Storyboard for depict task

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Depict films part 2

Film 2 – Meow

This film starts off with a woman walking into her house, but she hears a cat meow when it shows a close up of her hand about to open the door. The camera cuts to a mid-close up shot of her hand turning and seeing whether see can see the cat meowing. She goes into the garden to investigate the sound as the cat continues to meow. The next few scenes uses a range of long to close up shots to imply that she is looking for the cat and the expression she is feeling. The scene is very dark and creepy looking suiting a horror like theme. Her phone looks like it ran out of charge making the evening darker and you can hear nothing, this makes it really creepy. It cuts to an over the shoulder shot showing the possible location of where the meowing is coming from. A loud sound is screeched and it panics the woman and makes her scream and run in the house, the camera goes from a smooth to a handheld shaky cam that follows the woman in the house. It uses some of the typical horror tropes, this includes being set at night the use of jump scares, a demonic like creature and the woman being the first victim. I like this horror film because I like some horror films, I like the creepy dark scenes. I like the way the demon comes up and you can only see an outline of the creature and the white soulless eyes.

https://www.depict.org/2017/meow/?category_request=2017

    

Depict films part 1

Depict films

First film – Picking sides

My opinion the film is a representation of how conflict effects things. The film starts off clam and relaxing as you can see a tiny boat with a person and a dog. The colour also gives off calming feeling as it is mostly a mix of blue and orange. Next the a large boat sails up and stops before the tiny one, and you can see how insignificant the boat is by having this extreme wide shot to get the huge boat in the picture. Then another boat comes along that is just as big and an alarm can be heard and seen. This shows that something that may be dangerous might happen by the use of the red colour and the loud sound. Then the two boast start waring, as time goes the sky turns red and the weapons used become more advanced to indicate time moving on and as the weapons become more powerful the two boats destroy each other leaving the tiny boat left. In one way it is funny due to how over the top the scene and situation is and the use of animation suits the style and tone of the film. However I feel like there is a message behind the animation, and that is that this is a representation of how war is. Each side want to destroy each other and will make better weapons to do this with, however like this film people may make a weapon that may end up destroy one another and it may be our own demise. At the end a dolphin swims up to the tiny boat and then swims off with the tiny boat following it. This shows how the world will move on and just get back on route to what was happening before leaving what happened in the past. I like the animation of how simple it is, but is gets across the message and you can identify everything, even if it just uses the colour black, it also simplifies the film, as no emotion is shown as there is no detailed faces, the scene sets up the feelings and expressions by the use of the simple animation, sounds and the colours that are used in the background or for the explosions.            

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