Ryan Perry's TVP Blog

  Short Film Review: OPAL (2020) | Dir: Jack Stauber | Genre: Horror/Musical/Black Comedy | Run Time: 12 mins “OPAL” is the story of the titular young girl Opal’s curiosity that leads her to a creepy house across the street from her. When she enters the house, she meets three people who share their innermost disturbing struggles. Writer/Director/Animator/Musician Jack Stauber’s second short film was recently released on Halloween of this year by Warner Bros’ Adult Cartoon Comedy Network Adult Swim as a part of their “Adult Swim SMALLS” series, where he also released his previous short film SHOP: A Pop Opera (2019). Jack Stauber gained notoriety for his short 30-60 second musical cartoons on YouTube which feature his same signature Claymation VHS style seen here. This style helps create the false sense of comfort in Stauber's work. You can see elements of Opal In his cartoons listed below, Cooking with Abigail and Hope, such as the music which masks the horrors of the world surround

Above is my edit of the amterials given to us on Wednesday's editing workshop. I feel like I have done a very good job of telling the story of the man realising the wonders of being alone with his thoughts. I think I have timed the music cues correctly, included some well placed transitions and cuts and undestood the story that is needed to be told here.

  Short Film Review: The School for Postmen (1947) | Dir: Jacques Tati | Genre: Comedy | Run Time: 16 mins The School for Postmen follows an unnamed French trainee postman (Jacques Tati) as he goes about his new daily postal duties in a rural French village, it’s really that simple and that’s why it works. French slapstick auteur Jacques Tati is most well-known for his large-scale, satirical and colourful slapstick worlds in works such as Playtime (1967), Mon Oncle (1958) & Traffic (1971). Whilst here we see a Tati still starting to discover who he is and what he does. The film is essentially the early version of what would become his first feature film Jour de fête (1949). A film which fleshes out the postman character more and actually gives him a name, François. The feature also follows a lengthier main plot centred on a fair happening in the village which has an alluring influence on François resulting in a hilarious and frantic finale. I was first turned onto Tati’s work i