short film task

 Short film work

my short film: 'Paperman'

Its about a man trying to get the women who he met at the train station before this, getting her attention by throwing paper aeroplanes. This links to the title 'paperman'. Although it doesn't work at first all of the past paper aeroplanes guide him to her and the short film ends with them reuniting.

I think this short film develops the main character from just being some person who has an office job which he doesn't enjoy due to his horrible bosses and every other worker just as bored as he is. This then goes to him going against his bosses and using the important papers to try and get her attention. At the start he is not in a relationship but by the end after reuniting with the woman they are most likely gonna be in a relationship.

There is no dialogue in this short film so we are shown how he meets this woman without them talking but it is just as effective as we see how much she means to him. The paper aeroplane represents his affection for her and when the bosses keeps giving him dirty looks, the planes represent his heart telling his head to not listen to them. There is a beautiful soundtrack that plays over the planes guiding him towards her on the train and through the streets. This is hope for the audience telling us they're gonna see each other again. The planes represent his heart again when they guide him to her making him go back when he's  lost all hope. There is a nice use of framing when she's on the train and we see her looking back sadly. The use of the animated eyes in this film strongly displays emotion due to their eyes being big you can easily tell how that character is feeling. This is because eyes are such an important feature in animation and can be animated in different ways but can still display the same emotion and you got to be careful how you animate it so there eyes aren't displaying the wrong emotion.

I'll take inspiration from this film from the use of no dialogue as I believe this is effective when telling the story as the audience still understands what's going on and can feel their emotion whether it's through the eyes or the use of black and white screen to show how dull his life is at the beginning.