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PoP video!
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Posted 9 years ago #
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There's a playful Oliver Postgate nature to the animation. I really like it.
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Hugh and Ben (who did it) had a lot of fun. Some Kaputnik inspiration went into the characters as you know ...
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It's going down fairly well online!
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I really like this - gets the message across beautifully.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Lovely animation (I was half-expecting a cameo from Mr. Benn during the high street sequence), although I found that the musical score was ever so slightly distracting from the narration at times due to the relative volume.
Posted 9 years ago # -
This is what happens when you get a jazz musician to do the editing ... it's fair enough as we got it done at a bargain price. Animation is *expensive*
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I like the video too.
Some (in the far away foreign lands of vehicularist Londonshire) reckon it's promoting an agenda for removing cyclists from the road. :(
Posted 9 years ago # -
The video's great. The music.....less great.
Posted 9 years ago # -
I actually quite like the music.
Not so sure about the "dad needs to go to work, mum needs to take the kids to school and go for coffee with friends and shop" angle... Surprised me a little.
Makes the points about just why this investment is needed (for health and prosperity reasons) very very well indeed though.
Posted 9 years ago # -
@WC I wondered about that too, but decided that it was merely the specific circumstances of Katie's family as opposed to being any kind of implied gender stereotype.
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Aha. Didn't realise it was based on a real family. That being the case, ignore me.
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I'm not sure that it is, but that is what I took from it.
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Not based on a real family, specifically, but on a fairly typical one (note that Katie's mum does work part time, if you listen carefully!) TBH I worried about that myself, but in the end I decided that trying to make it too right on would distract from the general message. And we do have a *girl* as the main character, which balances things out a bit.
Interestingly, it's mostly men who have commented on the whole 'Dad works, mum goes to the shops' aspect of it (including my own husband), while the women I've asked about it - including some quite stroppy ones - haven't been bothered, although we have had one vote for Katie's mum to go to the pub next time...
Posted 9 years ago # -
@sallyhinch - totally agree. The film is already challenging one stereotype, and I think its message could have been too easily dismissed as "liberal leftie claptrap" if it had tried to challenge other stereotypes at the same time.
I think it's just great as it is.
Posted 9 years ago # -
@Greenroofer - thank you!
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Not saying the 'message' should have been 'right on', or 'challenging'. I guess it's still a sad indictment on our society that to spin the gender roles would be seen as such (that's having a go at society, not the people who made the video! I know how things can be misconstrued in text).
"although we have had one vote for Katie's mum to go to the pub next time..."
I think I know who that woudk have been ;)
Posted 9 years ago # -
Ha! I almost posted 'and no that wasn't me' after Sally's post, but then thought I was being paranoid...
Posted 9 years ago # -
My wife has been to the pub several times more times than me since we became parents.
Posted 9 years ago # -
All this feedback is helpful, it's good to know what people think. It was certainly my first attempt at commissioning anything like it, and an eye opener about how things change between being just words on a page and moving images. We've got some ideas about tweaking it, but that will have to be for next year...
Posted 9 years ago # -
SRD it's not paranoia if people really are out to get you... ;)
Posted 9 years ago # -
And now for something completely different
Posted 9 years ago # -
I confess that my heart sank a little at the start but that was actually very good. So much material I'm surprised it was only three minutes or so.
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