FMP evaluation

For our last ever college project for Steve, we have had to create a FMP. Now FMP can be anything from a documentary to a short film. I decided to make a documentary about healthy eating I did this because everyone knows that I like to eat loads of junk food and I also have a very unhealthy diet. I did this documentary because my Tutor thought it was the strongest idea out of my other three ideas.

With the project I could have had some help from a girl in my class called Sophie, but I chose not to because I wanted to work by myself which my Tutor thought was a big mistake. One of the biggest things with my Fmp was trying to get hold of people to interview. Every time I sent an email to someone they would not reply or were busy. I do admit I could have spent more time on the project at times I became complacent and thought what is the point and it showed in the video a little bit.

With my Interviews I managed to interview my mum because she is interested in the whole subject and I managed to interview my friend Fraser. I interviewed Fraser because when he left college he started going to the gym and started to get fit. I interviewed him because I wanted to see if he felt different and see if it made him feel better within himself as a person.

One mistake I made with the Fmp was when I interviewed my mum I filmed by a window so the lighting was wrong. One thing I found annoying was when I was editing on the computer the lighting and sound effects seemed fine and when I came to the showing it on the big day the documentary was very dark and grey and the sound seemed out of place at times. However on the computer the documentary seemed fine. Alot of people thought the documentary was rushed and thought not a lot of effort went into it. While we were watching it my Tutor looked like he was going to cry. A few people thought my interviews were good but thought that my cutaways and use of music were pointless and were just there to fill the time. One thing a lot of people picked up on was when I was doing my video diaries was that people thought I filmed them in a day but I didn’t. I filmed two the same day because my Tutor spotted the same bottle of Fanta in a shot twice so I didn’t get away with that.

 

I think if I had come into college and not took a lot of time off from my project, it would have been a lot better and not rushed. I might have actually got a good grade. The first time I showed my FMP I didn’t pass but then my tutor said film your mum again but in a different setting so I filmed by a computer. With all the months we had to film FMP my Tutor gave me loads of advice but  I didn’t listen as I thought I knew it all and would be fine. It didn’t work out like that whilst at college he told me to get cutaways in the café. I didn’t do that and even get an interview with Debbie which I wish I had done because it could have been funny.

One thing my Tutor did say which I suppose is a good thing, he said it was very me and at times he thought the random cutaways were funny but as a project he thought it was a mess and said that it looks like you haven’t been here 3 years. That hurt a little but I am glad he was honest with me. Most of the students who saw the project agreed with Steve, so I took that advice on board when I filmed my mum again.

One thing I would change about my FMP is coming into college when I was meant too and learning things that could help. With the documentary I would have also filmed an interview with a doctor and filmed cutaways of healthy food posters. I would have also put more music into the documentary music that actually made sense. With the documentary and I would have used some archive footage from the internet of fat people eating junk food and the effects it can have on your body.

With the final outcome with my documentary I was pleased with my end project. I know that I lot of people were not but at the end of the day I can’t change it. One of the weirdest things with the Fmp was knowing it was going to be my last ever project for college after 3 long but good years and some friendships I know I am going to have when I finish college.    

Radio drama characters

Tim Oates plays a cocky army leader who thinks that he is better than everybody else. When Kyle and I wrote the script, we wanted him to be a real arse who didn't care for anyone but himself. We got the idea from Jim Carry's role in Kick Ass 2 and most army films.

Andrew Sharp plays two characters. One is a fool who thinks he is funny and better than everybody else and in the story he betrays everyone. We based the character from one in the Adam Sandler film Little Nicky. In the film he plays a character who is a bit special.

His second character is a hero who wants to save the world and get the job done. We based these on action films we had seen. Films such as Commando, Rambo, Die Hard etc. They are characters who are in the wrong place at the wrong time but go on to save the day, going in with all guns blazing.

Adam Merchant plays a character who is smart but when it comes to making on the spot decisions he panics and makes the wrong decisions because he panics. We based his character on the type that would be somebody's sidekick. He would have been the geek type in school who had a best friend who was better than him at everything.

With all our characters we wanted to base them on characters from films we know and watched as children and that is what we have done. We hope that people like our radio drama that has been based in space like films such as the Alien films. 

Animation essay

For the recent college project for Steve we had to create a short animation film and would be graded for it. This essay is for the feedback we got for the animation.
The feedback that we received was very good and positive and a lot of people liked the music we included in the animation and said it worked really well with the story.
A lot of hard work went into the spider which we used for our other animation film so we kept the spider in the animation. A girl in my class who hates spiders found the spider quiet scary and terrifying but thought it was very effective. A lot of people also liked our clay person. I always found it's mouth to look like something from the film Predator, but people liked it.

I think we worked well as a group but I did feel that as a group that at times we could probably have worked a bit better together. I think because of FMP we left the animation to the last minute, which was a bad idea because we are coming up to the end of the course. This means that there is even more pressure on us all and I think at times people took over certain areas of the animation and did not let other people have any control and do what they wanted to do.
Sedtin could be demanding at times and a little annoying hence why I didn't want her in the group. The reason I found Sedtin annoying at times was because she took control of the whole project and didn't let anyone take part. She would also speak over people so I found that at times it was best to leave her to it before I got too annoyed with her.
Abi worked really well and was very strong throughout the whole task and in fact she was the most helpful and creative when filming but she could also be annoying as we all know Abi is very head strong but also hard working.
Will was ok but moaned a lot but I had a good time filming with him and also we had a laugh. I cant really think of a negative comment, in fact I don't think that there were any negatives as everyone had fun making it even though the process was really long. The hard work was definitely worth it as we got a good grade for it.
The fact that people took over certain areas of the animation and did not let other people have any control and do what they wanted to do would be the only thing I would change about our animation work.

To make the animation, we got clay models and started to build them together similar to Wallace and Gromit. Everything started to come together and I helped to build the spider's legs and also to build the body shape of the spider and I also created the legs for our human in the animation and it all looked very good and professional.

The way we animated the project was that we got a tripod which we never ended up using because our whole animation was handheld. We then got a chair and sat down right by the table and focused our shots moving around the table as we went along. Every time we took a photo we would take five photos for the shot. In the end we had around 350 photos so we had enough footage. When we came to editing we put everything in place and we didn't need to cut anything down and we all put in the sound effects together.  
 

Good interviews and bad interviews

For our recent college project for Matt, we have been asked to look at good interviews and bad interviews. This is for our interview techniques work. What I discovered is that the controversial ones are the best types of ones to watch. Even the short lived ones on the red carpet for a big Hollywood movie for example at the premiere of Men In Black 3, Will Smith gets stopped by a reporter and the reporter starts to ask him questions about the film and then the reporter tries to kiss him. Then you see Will Smith slap him saying "what you doing man" then walks away - this is a classic case of an interview gone wrong.

Another classic example of an interview going wrong is with Michael Parkinson. He interviews Meg Ryan and throughout the interview she seems like she doesn't want to be there and is very blunt with him. In the interview when he was asking her questions she was giving him very short and abrupt answers with many just one word answers. In the interview you can see Michael Parkinson beginning to get annoyed with her. However, when I watched the interview it did seem that he put very little effort into the interview and the questions he was asking her. It appears that he did no research at all and that she turned up and he would hope for the best with the interview.

In contrast, a good interview I saw was when Mark Wahlberg, went on to the motoring programme Top Gear and was interviewed by Jeremy Clarkson. They were talking about his film career and his love of cars. He also did the star in a Reasonably Priced Car but what I found interesting about the interview is that his old rap career was not mentioned at all. In the 1990s he was part of the rap group called Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. The group didn't do very well and only released two albums. I would think if you were interviewing a big Hollywood star like that you would bring up the things that made them famous.

In the early 2000s TV shows like Friday Night With Jonathan Ross and The Graham Norton Show became more popular and were always on at 9 pm on a Friday night on the BBC and ITV. The Jonathan Ross Show was always controversial with famous people because some of the things he used to say to his guests and he would mock them. One of the most famous cases of mocking I can remember is when he had Eminem on the show and he started to make jokes about his ex wife Kim and joking that his daughter is going to be the next big rap star. When you watch Eminem in the interview, his face just looks like he is going to punch Jonathan Ross, or get 50 Cent to sort him out. I would say the telephone call with Andrew Sachs is a prank instead of an interview which I thought was so funny. It was where Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand rang Andrew Sachs saying I fucked your granddaughter, which I thought was funny and caused a national scandal in the media.

Bad Interviews happen all the time in the Media industry. Another one I can think of is when the rapper Lil Wayne is talking to someone about his music. The interviewer asks him a question that he doesn't like and ends the interview straight away and stops talking. The interviewer keeps trying to get him to talk and the interview ends with the bodyguard kicking the interviewer out. Another one was when Lil Wayne was sitting on a chair with the interviewer and starts to move his leg like he doesn't want to be there and kicks his drink over and goes "OMG that's the biggest fuck up I'm sorry" and ends the interview.

The type of interviews I like are with the big Hollywood stars on the red carpet where they talk briefly about the film and if they had fun doing it, etc. Also anything with Kanye West. because his interviews were always controversial and became so controversial that he now refuses to talk to the media. A classic Kanye moment was when he was live on TV and said George Bush doesn't care about Black People and the camera quickly cuts to Chris Tucker. That was a classic Kanye moment. 

Media audiences

For our recent project for Matt, we have been asked to create Vox Props on a controversial TV show of our choice but instead I am doing it as an essay. The controversial show I have picked is South Park. With South Park, the show is not really violent, it can be at times but it is very rare. In the show, one example of violence I can give you is when one of the main characters dies in nearly every episode. The character is Kenny and he always meets a nasty end. In one of the newer episodes it is very rare that they kill him off but with South Park, the show is known for its more offensive humour against everyone. When you watch South Park nobody is safe at all. One of the biggest spoofs they did was the - trapped in the closet episode where Tom Cruise goes to a house party with the boys and one of them calls him gay. He goes and hides in a closet with them hinting that he is a secret closet gay. 

In the episode R Kelly also joins them but not because they think he is gay but because of the song he did from which the episode is inspired. John Travolta also joins them and again the creators are hinting that he is a secret closet gay. The biggest controversial moment of the whole episode is the part where they rip Scientology apart saying that it is a load of rubbish. This caused many people who believed in the faith to kick up a fuss and tried to get the episode banned. I think if you do not believe in Scientology you are not going to get annoyed about the episode and just find it funny, but if you are a firm believer of the faith then I think you are going to be mad about it because they are mocking your beliefs saying that it is a load of crap so there are two sides of the argument.   

With South park and its advertising the only controversial adverts I can think of is when the movie came out and they had one of the main characters called Eric Cartman dressed as a German and was he doing a German dance and saying that all Germans that dress and dance in a certain way are gay. So they are in a way stereotyping because he was wearing a suit that looked like something a blonde girl would wear in a German pub and hand out beer to drunken fat German men with facial hair and those are stereotypes.The other forms of advertising the show used are when the show was aired on Channel 4 they used to promote the show by showing a clip for the show. Another way they do it again is comedy central show an advert for the promotion on the show.

With regards to the shows censorship one of the biggest examples I can think of is an episode called Cartoon Wars Part 1 and 2 which is where they show the Muslim prophet Muhammad and they actually created a cartoon version of the prophet but with the censorships company being scared that there would be a batch of attacks from the Muslims they edited him out. How they did this was that they don't ban the scenes where the prophet appears but when the scene appears what ever network the show is airing on the company make the screen all black and saying Comedy Central refuses to show the Prophet Muhammad on there network. They do this out of respect for the Muslims but before the anger came from the Muslim community they were going to show the Prophet so that outcome would have been interesting.

Now with the watershed, South Park is shown at 9 to 10 o'clock in the evening and that is because of the offensive material shown within the show. If the show was shown before 9pm this would kick up a storm because of the content.

I think South Park appeals to people with an open sense of humour .South Park is a show that doesn't play it safe and I think if people want a safe comedy they should watch a show like Mrs Browns Boys because that is for a wider audience. Children watch it with their parents in their room. I watched South Park as a child with my parent's permission because at the end of the day they trusted me  to know the difference between fact and fiction. It is up to the parents and it really annoys me when parents complain to Ofcom about Material shown in shows like South Park. It is not the company's fault at all but people just want the attention from the media and parents should know what they want their children to watch and not watch just because someone makes a black joke in South Park and laughs doesn't mean that they are racist .I also think a big part of TV is how you are brought up. If you were brought up with parents who did not give a damn about you I think South Park would affect behaviour.      

Persistence of vision is where they use 12 drawings per second. I have found out that one drawing for every two frames, when a character is made to do something quick like jumping, or galloping, they start to blend the slow motion and the fast motion together which makes it work really well. I found out that most Saturday morning cartoons are produced as cheaply as possible. The other name for persistence of vision is key frame animation and is the starting point and ending point of any smooth transition

Animation has been popular for many years now. Some of its early hits were Walt Disney cartoons like mickey mouse in steamboat willie which is a very simple cartoon where you just see mickey mouse whistling away in a simple back and white colour frame but is very effective. At the same time some other early forums of cartoon is the classic Tom and Jerry which has now been taken off the air for being too violent for kids which is silly. Another early forum is stuff like Looney tunes Wacky Races and The Flintstones. In more modern times animation for adults has become very popular with younger people stuff like The simpsons which kids love too, South Park, Family Guy. American Dad which are all known for their offensive style but funny humour.

A zoetrope is a device that creates things of Illusion and motion where you spin the device around and as you spin the device you see a picture form in a circle on the inside of the Zoetrope. You have a set of pictures that tend to form a pattern and form a circle. As you spin the device around the pictures that have been drawn start to blend together. One of the earliest Zoetropes dated back to China around 180 AD. Based on my experience I think at the time, the Zoetrope would have been amazing but when I used one I thought they were dull and boring and times have moved on. We have better things to play with now.

The Praxinoscope was the successor to the Zoetrope. It was created in France in 1877. Like the Zoetrope the device uses a set of pictures that again are placed inside the device of a spinning cylinder. Unlike the Zoetrope the Praxinoscope used mirrors with a set of images on them and as you spun the device around you saw a set of images but the picture at the time was a lot better than the stuff we can do with pictures now. Also the Praxinoscope pictures were a lot brighter something which the Zoetrope could not do.

The Thaumatrope was created in the Victorian times. With this device you get two pieces of string and you get a disk or a card with a picture on it .When you have done this you then start to spin the pictures around quickly and as you spin them the image starts appearing. The quicker you spin the device, the picture starts to move faster which can be hard to see.

Clay animation or claymation is one of many forms of stop motion animation. Each animated piece, either character or background, is "deformable"—made of a malleable substance, usually Plasticine clay. With Stop motion clay Animation you film the sequences bit by bit so if you move the clay you film it, stop the camera, move him again, etc. One of the most controversial clay animation films created was a film called Plasticine Cow and at one point Russia tried to get it banned. Another one of Russia's controversial stop motion clay Animation films was called Last Years snow was Falling. Again the Russians wanted it banned for being mindless and stupid. In more recent times Clay animation is not used as much, it is very rare.
 

The Flipbook is a creation where you draw a set of pictures on some short thin paper but the pictures you draw have to create a story. Then you get a rubber band, put it on the side of the Flipbook, you then get your thumb on the other side of the paper then use your thumb and flick the pictures until you get to the end. I think Flipobooks are still great today depending on what you draw. The other things you can do with Flipbooks is get a set of photographs and do the same thing.

 CGI is used a lot in Animation now they use so much special effects you lose sight of what is going on with the story in the film. However if the effects are done well I really do not care. In more recent times live action feature films blend live Action and CGI and animation together. A classic example is the lord of the rings films where they have the creature Gollum. What they did with this was they had the actor with a blue set of clothing with wires stripped to his head and body with the greenscreen behind him and got him to film his scenes. One of the good things about CGI is that it is getting better and better as time goes on but as I said people can lose sight of what is going on with the story because the special effects take over.

One of the animators I am going to talk about is the controversial Seth MacFarlane who is best known for the Family Guy series.  One of the first popular cartoon series he wrote for and produced was Cow and Chicken, the show aired on Cartoon Network and ran for years and was one of cartoon networks most popular shows ever. Some parents thought the naked red guy was highly creepy for a kids show and was complained about a few times. One of the complained about episodes was an episode called Buffalo Girls. In this episode there is a bike gang full of women and they break into Cow and chickens house and start to munch and eat the carpet hinting that they are lesbian and in the whole episode the parents are only hinting but making lesbian jokes. in 1999 Seth Macfarlane finally got to air his popular TV series Family guy which is loved and hated by Americans and people around the world. The series has been cancelled by the network Fox twice for being too offensive to the American public. Also the writers of the show have been called racist for their many Black and Chinese jokes .Before, the show was called family guy he created an animation short called Larry and Steve which was popular but the same as family guy. You have two characters as the head of the house who is called Steve and a dog called Larry which in family guy is the same but the dad has a family. In more recent times I think family guy has sort of lost its way and become unfunny although there are sometimes funny cutaways which is a very big part of the show. Another one of his popular TV Shows is American Dad which in some ways is the same as Family guy. Again there is a father with a family but he works for the CIA and helps protect the world. Unlike Family guy the show does not use cutaways but follows a straight story. The show again had controversy with parents saying it is bad for kids to be watching this because again the shows humour is offensive. It is shown after the watershed when most kids should be in bed. In 2007 he was asked to host the 59th primetime Emmy awards but stepped down after parents complained about him hosting worrying about the jokes he would make.  This year he is set to be in a episode of the Simpsons which a lot of fans are looking forward to. The episode is called Danger on a train. Seth Macfarlane has also made Animated films. One of them is being Stewie Griffin the untold Story which was about Stewie trying to find his older self. When Seth MacFarlane left college he got a job at Hanna Barbera studios and then he got a job at 20th century fox.

I think with animation in advertising it works really well .One of the best adverts I have seen for animation advertising was for a mobile phone. That phone was the Sony Xperia and what they did it was just amazing. I think animation for adverts can be much more effective than live action adverts and the way animation is now the stuff that appears on our TV screens and computers is mind blowing and it just shows you how much CGI has come on in recent years.

Idents are the company's opening logo to a film before it is shown. Some of the most well known ones are 20th Century fox, dreamworks with the sitting on the sign fishing, warner bros. Those Idents are known around the world and have been around for years. TV companies like BBC, ITV and MTV also have their own Idents. The BBC usually have a circle forming at the end and then the show is broadcast. I think the BBC Idents are very good and clever and sometimes can be funny.

With Animation Music videos, one of the most popular is Aha and Take On Me. I think the music video was good at the time but is awful now. The whole thing looks like it was drawn but the director didn't like the drawings so he threw them in the bin. You really don't see much animated music videos any more. South Park is one of the last animated series and Family Guy that make music videos and their music videos can be very funny and offensive at the same time.

Video games are some of the most popular animation forums ever created. The way they create the games is just incredible. Games like Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto 4, Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2, Red Dead Redemption, Fallout 3, Mortal Kombat, Left 4 dead 2, Call Of Duty Black Ops, Mafia 2, Counter Strike, Grand Theft Auto Vice City, Mass effect 3. Video games are getting more and more popular each day. Most people play them to escape into another world but they are everywhere - magazines, cinemas, adverts, billboards, etc and I think they will grow even more popular as time goes on.

Animation Timeline

1824	Peter Mark Roget, who did research in physiology at the University of London, published "Persistence of Vision with Regard to Moving Objects." This book presented the idea that a succession of still images could create the appearance of motion.
1832	Joseph Plateau (a Belgian scientist) developed the phenakistiscope.
1889	Emile Reynaud (from France) patents the praxinoscope .. a device that used mirrors to project a sequence of images (along with a fixed background) onto a screen. It was sufficiently complex that only he could run it. The infinite length tape changed the medium from a curiosity into entertainment.
1895	The age of movie camera and projector begins .. experimentors discover they can stop the crank and restart it again to obtain special effects. Example: James Stuart Blackton creates "The Enchanted Drawing" in 1900 .. a caricature is drawn with no evidence of an artist.
1907	Emil Cohl (from France) begins a long animation career..
1914	Windsor McCay produces perhaps the first popular animation .. Gertie the Dinosaur, which becomes part of his vaudeville act
1915	John Bray patents the use of clear cels over a background
1917	John Bray patents rotoscoping (developed by Max Fleischer)
1919	Koko the clown (Max Fleischer) appears
1920's	Otto Mesmer creates Felix the Cat
1928	Walt Disney releases "Steamboat Willie" .. an early cartoon w/ sound -- cartoons are now seen as entertainment. Disney innovations over the next 10-20 years include the storyboard, pencil tests, and the multi-plane camera stand (3D effects). Disney also promoted the analysis of real-life motion.
1937	Snow White is released at cost of $1.5M
1930's	Fleischer studios create Betty Boop and Popeye
1930's	Warner Bros .. Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, and Bugs Bunny appear
1940's	Walter Lantz and Woody Woodpecker, Paul Terry and Mighty Mouse, MGM w/ Tom & Jerry (animators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera)
1963	Ivan Sutherland and SKETCHPAD at MIT/Lincoln Labs
1972	University of Utah, Ed Catmull develops an animation scripting language and creates an animation of a smooth shaded hand. Ref: E. Catmull, "A System for Computer Generated Movies", Proceedings of the ACM National Conference, 1972. (In the SIGGRAPH 98 Seminal Graphics collection.)
1972	University of Utah, Fred Parke creates first computer generated facial animation. Ref: F. Parke, "Computer Generated Animation of Faces", Proceedings of the ACM National Conference, 1972. (In the SIGGRAPH 98 Seminal Graphics collection.)
1974	National Research Council of Canada releases Hunger/La Faim directed by Peter Foldes and featuring Burtnyk and Wein interactive keyframing techniques. Ref: N. Burtnyk and M. Wein, "Interactive Skeleton Techniques for Enhancing Motion Dynamics in Key Frame Animation", Communications of the ACM, 19(10), October 1976. (In the SIGGRAPH 98 Seminal Graphics collection.)
1982	Tron, MAGI, movie with CG premise
1983	Bill Reeves at Lucasfilm publishes techniques for modeling particle systems. "Demo" is Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn. The paper also promotes motion blur. Ref: W. Reeves, "Particle Systems -- A Technique for Modeling a Class of Fuzzy Objects", Computer Graphics, 17(3), July 1983. (In the SIGGRAPH 98 Seminal Graphics collection.)
1984	The Last Starfighter, CG is used in place of models
1984	Porter and Duff at Lucusfilm publish paper on digital compositing using an alpha channel. Ref: T. Porter and T. Duff, "Compositing Digital Images", Computer Graphics, 18(3), July 1984. (In the SIGGRAPH 98 Seminal Graphics collection.)
1985	Girard and Maciejewski at OSU publish a paper describing the use of inverse kinematics and dynamics for animation. Their techniques are used in the animation "Eurythmy." Ref: M. Girard and A. A. Maciejewski, "Computational Modeling for the Computer Animation of Legged Figures", Computer Graphics, 19(3), July 1985. (In the SIGGRAPH 98 Seminal Graphics collection.)
1985	Ken Perlin at NYU publishes a paper on noise functions for textures. He later applied this technique to add realism to character animations. Ref: K. Perlin, "An Image Synthesizer", Computer Graphics, 19(3), July 1985. (In the SIGGRAPH 98 Seminal Graphics collection.)
1987	John Lasseter at Pixar publishes a paper describing traditional animation principles. "Demos" are Andre and Wally B and Luxo Jr. Ref: J. Lasseter, "Principles of Traditional Animation Applied to 3D Computer Animation", Computer Graphics, 21(4), July 1987. (In the SIGGRAPH 98 Seminal Graphics collection.)
1987	Craig Reynolds then at Symbolics (now at Dreamworks SKG) publishes a paper on self-organizing behavior for groups. "Demos" are Stanley and Stella and Batman Returns. Ref: C. W. Reynolds, "Flocks, Herds, and Schools: A Distributed Behavioral Model", Computer Graphics, 21(4), July 1987. (In the SIGGRAPH 98 Seminal Graphics collection.)
1988	Willow uses morphing in live action film
1992	Beier and Neely, at SGI and PDI respectively publish an algorithm where line correspondences guide morphing between 2D images. "Demo" is Michael Jackson video Black and White. Ref: T. Beier and S. Neely, "Feature-Based Image Metamorphosis", Computer Graphics, 26(2), July 1992. (In the SIGGRAPH 98 Seminal Graphics collection.)
1993	Chen and Williams at Apple publish a paper on view interpolation for 3D walkthroughs. Ref: S. E. Chen and L. Williams, "View Interpolation for Image Synthesis", Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, 1993. (In the SIGGRAPH 98 Seminal Graphics collection.)
1993	Jurassic Park use of CG for realistic living creatures
1995	Toy Story first full-length 3D CG feature film

By Adam Merchant



  

United Kingdom

In his very negative review of A Serbian Film, BBC Radio 5 Live's Mark Kermode called it a "nasty piece of exploitation trash in the mold of Jörg Buttgereit and Ruggero Deodato", going on to add that "if it is somehow an allegory of Serbian family and Serbian politics then the allegory gets lost amidst the increasingly stupid splatter."^[46] Furthermore, he mentioned A Serbian Film again in his review of Fred: The Movie, pairing the two as his least favourite viewing experiences of the year.^[47]
Calum Waddell of Total Sci-Fi in a negative review took issue with the film-makers' statements that their movie says something about the politics of Serbia, writing, "if you want to learn about Serbia, chances are, you won't be watching a movie whose main claim to fame is that a man rapes a newborn baby", before concluding that "Srdjan Spasojevic will go to his grave being known as the guy who filmed a grown man having sex with a baby. And that's something that – despite all of the money, attention and champagne parties at Cannes – I would never want on my conscience. Good luck to him in regaining some humanity."^[48]
An interesting review came from Total Film magazine. Awarding the film two stars out of five, the reviewer found the film's shock hype not to be fully deserved: ...a film that was slightly silly and none-too-distressing to begin with. Works best as a reflection on modern day porn’s obsession with masochism and humiliation