Friday, 16 June 2017
Tuesday, 13 June 2017
CATCH OF THE DAY | DepicT! Highlights | Watershed
Catch of the Day
I find this video funny because I am a fisherman and know how
easy it is to get tangled up. I also like it because you have the split screen
where the man pulls the woman from underneath him. This links to the olden days
when people used to think that the world was flat and if you travelled too far
you would reach the end of the earth and you would fall off the edge. It has a
woman fishing and this is a surprise but challenges sexism because people
assume fishing is for men and you don’t see many women fishing.
easy it is to get tangled up. I also like it because you have the split screen
where the man pulls the woman from underneath him. This links to the olden days
when people used to think that the world was flat and if you travelled too far
you would reach the end of the earth and you would fall off the edge. It has a
woman fishing and this is a surprise but challenges sexism because people
assume fishing is for men and you don’t see many women fishing.
This is ironic because the title is also a pun. ‘Catch of the
Day’: the man catches the woman which is more than he bargained for. At the
very end, it leaves the viewer wondering about the dog but we get a happy
ending when we see the dog is safely in the boat.
Day’: the man catches the woman which is more than he bargained for. At the
very end, it leaves the viewer wondering about the dog but we get a happy
ending when we see the dog is safely in the boat.
Friday, 9 June 2017
Magic Unicorn
The main character tries to sell a stolen bike to a
stranger. Another character walks past with a unicorn which can shoot rainbows
out of its horn. The first seller then tries to big his bike up by saying, for
example, it has twin engines. The boy with the unicorn increases his selling
pitch claiming his unicorn can fly. He ends up walking away with the unicorn
and the potential buyer also walks away without buying the unicorn or the bike.
This was really funny because it reminded of myself because
when I try to sell a bike I exaggerate so much to get a lot of money for it.
Although it has a unicorn in it is true to life. None of the characters show
amazement at seeing a unicorn. They keep very straight, almost bored, faces.
It only has 3 characters, is set in an alleyway, off an ordinary
street. The unicorn is just a white horse with a horn stuck on so it would be
quite easy to make.
What made this short successful was the original but
believable idea. It worked being short because it was all about the conversation
– there was no plot needed as to what had happened before or afterwards.
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