Short film's, Vol 10. Connected

hello, and welcome to this review.

Today I will be venturing back into an apocalyptic theme but in a diffrent way. As this film Connected, is rather interesting.

Another film with little dialogue  but still manages to have a strong effect on the audience, with the 3 characters each being very different, but the main characters actually being opposite to what you think.

The characters names also inspire a debate to what they are, where to me they seem like they stand for Alpha  Omega and 43.

Omega seems to want to go out alone and see's Alpha as a hinderance, and seeing that 43 has this device which is for a single person goes after it. where 43 see's them and knows that his oxygen suple will run out soon. so tricks Omega into violently swapping with him. which questions which one was good in this situation, by Omega ditching Alpha for good, and 43 tricking Omega into doing this swap so he can actually live.

Its quite an interesting film. Camera angles are really good showing good wide angle shots as well as over the shouter shots making it seem like its taken inspiration from game's. Also using many close ups of the characters eyes as its the only part of there body that you see, as well as many POV shots seeing the Breathing apparatus as well as the Fight.

Editing cuts through seamlessly and quite well, for the film. flowing from point to point, where it seems to be in only one location. But the things combined makes it seem like a much larger open location. With the mix of cutaways with other shots flows perfectly.

Another question that is raised is about the gender of the character's  where the question is raised are they all male, or are there 2 males and one female? The Costume design dosent reveal too much which adds to the mystery about them, which is a good added aspect towards the film.

Have a watch and see what you think, i hope you enjoy it.

     Will

Short films vol 9. The Happy Duckling and Zombie atualy

Hello and welcome to this review.
Today we have a change in genre with this short film, firstly a family friendly short and i must recommend it to anyone, its quite cute and funny and seems like something that should be on a children's TV show.
But if it was would also need to come with excuses for adults to watch too.
Then onto a Zombie comedy short, Which is quite clever.



This short film is a nice animation, the use of the pop up book style inside the film itself was a good touch, as the boy pulls on levers lowering or summoning objects allowing him to move was really clever.
It has a cute story which dosent give up, flowing from scene to scene in a inventive way seems perfect.
The story was quite mellow how it flowed seamlessly actually seeming like the boy is walking home from school or just walking though the park, sharing his food with ducks and having one get attached to him. the ending was quite charming but is explained why the boy didn't want the duck following him home.
Quite sad which did give it a nice effect with "The End" section. quite funny and pleasant.
I sent this film to a few people because I didn't want to wait to upload this. And one of the comments from sam a colleague from college was.
"It seemed like a game"
which dose ring true as it dose have a game feel and would be a nice game, I know I would get it.

And next up we have this short zombie film. I stumbled across this and it turned out to be brilliant, was quite witty and clever. it had a odd comedy aspect to it but it just seemed to work perfectly.
Called Zombie Actually, having a joke towards the film Love Actually, of love within a zombie apocalipse.
The quality could have been a bit better but thats just a youtube thing. the camera work was great, having good shots and angels, at times did seem like it would go out of focus but that could be because of the quality issues  the editing was quite good also, with good use of effects within the opining credit sequence, and cut's. The acting could have changed slightly but for the style and feel it has it goes with it perfectly.
It dose have the classic's in there with the gore from cutting zombies heads or, aswell as the amount of blood and over kill which is used.
A good comedy short zombie film which is simple and too the point. A must watch I think.