Family Dinner was one of the first films I watched from the DepicT! website, and it was fantastic. While the acting in my opinion was not the greatest, they did a great job of showing an over exaggerated family dinner. We have the grandparents, who are traditional and blind to the ideas of modern ideologies (the grandpa with the Kindle, he doesn't grasp the idea of electronic books). Then we have the parents, protective of their teenage daughter. We then see the three teenagers, 2 of them are in a relationship and playing a card game. They are being loud and drinking alcohol, this is the typical stereotype of a 18-21 year old. We also see the girl on her phone, ignoring everyone, in a bad mood and gets caught out kissing a boy. This is how we think of the modern day 15 year old. They are engrossed into their phones and are experimenting in the world of relationships. The final character is a 8-10 year old boy. He's confused about relationships and is asking question about what he's heard in school.
This film can be related to in some sorts, as a family dinner usually has lots of different people, with lots of different age groups, with lots of different conversations. However, I will give credit for the camera movements. They are simple but really effective.
Overall, this film was funny and had a great comedic value. I give it a 8/10.
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Picking Sides was a short animated movie about a man and his dog. They are fishing until two ships are having a battle right beside them. They are throwing everything they have at each-other (missiles, planes, turrets etc) but in the end, they both destroy each-other. The man and his dog are stuck between 'a rock and a hard place' and this is just one of the messages this short film portrays. Another message is that all the war and destruction going on around us is not achieving anything, but the ultimate death of each side. At the end of the film, a dolphin appears - this is to symbolize that even through all the destruction and life lost from the fighting, nature and life will still go on.
The film had a solid narrative and a really excellent set of animation. The only issue was the sounds were not the best of quality, however this is only because it is an indie film. This was my favourite out of all of the films we watched, so I give it a 10/10.
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The Amusements was a 90 second film about a young man trying to impress a girl. The film had no speaking in it and was really, really simple. The man simply lights a firework, and lets it fizz out in an attempt to impress her. She simply walks away, leaving the man by himself - waiting to impress yet another girl.
The most impressive thing about this film was the use of camera angles and positioning. The man is taller and more relaxed, while the girl is shorter and seems more inhibited. This could be used to symbolise how men put themselves out for women in the modern day. When she walks away, this could be used to show how hard women are to impress, or it could be just be used to show she is simply not interested in him.
The film was short and simple, had a decent narrative and had good camera angles. It wasn't my favourite film, but I really liked it either way. I give it a 7/10.
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