Tuesday 23 March 2010

The Street Of Crocodiles review


I found it very difficult to understand and form a story out of 'Street of Crocodiles', I started of by understand that when the puppet was cut free, it was allowed to explore a world of mysteries and adventures. As it progressed, I failed to understand what was happening, and instead started to feel uncomfortable as a result of the 'uncanny' designs throughout. For me, this animation had me more concentrated on how well the environment manages to evoke such feelings. The relationship created between the objects are responsible for creating such a feeling, for example the ubiquitousness of screws throughout the animation, unscrewing themselves, made me feel uneasy. The colour used were also inspiring, as it created such a dingy, underground world. I believe 'The Street of Crocodiles' is an animation I will be revisiting, however, my main goal if anything, is to understand the storytelling used throughout.

1 comment:

  1. Interim Online Review 23/03/10

    Hi Bharathi,

    I think you've got it just about right with your story idea; it will be in the flourishes and detail that make it truly entertaining; for instance, on the crate that gets delivered, consider using the ACME logo familiar to all of us who love those bizarre deliveries sent to coyote in his attempt to catch road runner...

    http://www.chroniclebooks.com/index/main,book-info/store,books/products_id,5572/title,ACME-Catalog/

    This is big, bold, toony stuff and you need to embrace that style for this to be impactful and fun; consider having the star on top of the tree light up as the tree lands in place and the fairy-lights illuminate - a sort of 'ta da!'.

    Regarding your essay, see following post.

    oh - and regarding Street of Crocodiles - I don't think you're even meant to 'understand' it - I think you're simply meant to 'feel' it; I love the totality of the atmosphere; the stuff of very dark dreams...

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