Film 1

1) Describe what the main concept or "big idea" behind the video is. That a small family adopts a young girl, and they accept her into the family, and soon you begin to see she is separated from the family and it sets up the scene to let you know that she isn't actually a girl, but a dog. And the young girl is equally portrayed as a responsibility to take care of, and that was the endings big idea. 2) What is the emotional tone of the video..Happy? Sad? Optimistic? The video portrays a tone starting with exciting and happy and leads to sad and concerning, to a depressed tone. 3) Were there any clues that the adopted child was a metaphor for an adopted dog? There were clues like how when they adopted her she wasn't allowed to eat dinner at the table with them, and the dad and daughter were throwing a ball and left her behind. There also was a scene where she wanted the dad to play with her and he kept giving her toy back to her. 4) Identify the message the...

The Wrong Trousers Title/Opening Credits: There was a suspenseful title once again, and it was foreshadowing the fact that something bad was bound to happen, Story/Plot/Narrative: It the beginning Wallice is low on money so he puts up a room for rent and a penguin that is soon to be found evil begins to live with them. Meanwhile, Wallice invents a pair of trousers that do many interesting things, and was one morning put into them by the penguin so he could steal a diamond. Motif: There is a lot of angles that show up close on the penguin that kind of symbolize him being evil, and they put suspenseful music along with most of his actions. Characterization: The main characters are Wallice, Gromit, and the penguin that moves in with them. Gromit gets often upset, and sad because of the new roommate and Walice is often worried when he is stuck in a mishap because he relies on Gromit to fix it. Scene/Sets: They have it se...

In A Close Shave there are many elements expressed in the film. The title correlates with the fact that there is a sheep put through a machine that trims away most of its wool and leaves him smaller than the others.  The plot is shown that they live in a small house in the city and wallice and gromit clean windows for a living. The motif is the sheep and the fact that they keep turning up when they were suppose to be taken away.  The characterization is that wallice and gromit are a constant in the entire film and make it come together when their conflicts are either compromised or solved.  Most of the scenes are fairly similar throughout the storyline, and they appear at both the beginning and end of the film. In the sets the locations were in a small countryside town. It was filmed in a studio for stop motion.