Tuesday, November 30, 2010

favorite short film

My favorite online short film is "How They Get There" by Spike Jonze. It opens with a close up of a shoe and it starts tapping as he opens a milk carton until he sees a girl walking by and tries to act cool. He starts to walk alongside her and starts to imitate his moves. This goes back and forth until he gets hit by a car and his shoe goes flying. A track shot follows the shoe down the curb to another shoe to reveal how all of the lone shoes end up on the street. The feel of this short is very light and funny and the beginning and quickly turns dark. The reveal at the end makes the whole short make sense. I enjoy guessing until the end. There seems to be a very high production value for a short. Jonze uses movement of the camera to reveal the car and the shock on the girls face when she sees he is about to be hit. The music also helps the light hearted feel throughout.

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