Short films

A Call to Action in A Short Film About Chasing Hope By Taylor Pastrick One of the great things about being a creative mind is having a voice. Those creative minds who use that voice and audience to help an important cause are making the most of their platform and ability. This is the case with James Brown and Bill Irving's A Short Film About Chasing Hope. They lend their collective voice and ability in filmmaking to spotlight the importance of the ongoing refugee crisis. When you watch the…

The film Poverty Inc. creates a new take on the social problem of poverty, not only in America but also in the countries that the United States work a little too hard to “help.” According to the film, America’s involvement in other countries seeking relief from natural disasters and assistance in stimulating their economy hurts the country and its development more than it does benefit. This goes against the belief and understanding that many American’s still hold- we grow up believing and are…

Late 2006 “a news and media furor erupted when Spain banned overly thin models” from the fashion runway which led Dove to produce “a compelling short film, Evolution” (yellow). In this one minute and fourteen second video a real woman is transformed into what is considered as the perfect model. The film starts with the regular woman with no makeup on, so all of her “flaws” as society would call them are seen. Then the video is sped up as professionals fix her complication…

rom Dater's Handbook with Brittney Wilson and Lynda Boyd Rachael Leigh Cook was really awesome to work with. She is very warm, funny, and generous, and she’s genuinely interested in the people she’s working with— and that’s not just a hollow show biz platitude. Travis Milne is great too. We’ve remained friends and we might even be roommates in LA pretty soon. Brittney Wilson, whom I married in Dater’s Handbook, is actually my ex-girlfriend and we’re still really good friends. I didn’t spend much…

good moves.” Bobby Fischer’s quote about chess is a perfectly acceptable to represent “Geri’s Game.” Pixars short film “Geri’s Game,” represents that skill, occasionally, can beat talent. In this situation, the old man’s “good move” was pretending to have a heart attack and resorting to trickery to be triumphant. Ordinarily, a chess game requires two people participating. In Pixar’s short film “Geri’s Game,” an elderly gentleman finds enjoyment in competing against himself for a final prize.…

No matter where a person may come from, everyone encounters a similar journey. The journey that is heard in stories is symbolic to what anyone may go through in life. In the story “A worn path”, an old women goes through many obstacles as she is on the pathway to acquiring what she sought after. In order to better convey the hero’s journey in the story A Worn Path, Eudora Welty uses characterization, symbolism, and conflict. In the story characterization is used to describe the main character…

Have you ever heard a story of a teenager being disoriented and confused about their current state due to them checking their phone? No, that is because teenagers are not as obsessed with their phone as they are being made out to seem. In the short film Look Up by Gary Turk he talks about how technology is basically ruining modern day reality. He speaks on how social media will ruin today 's generation and that we are slaves to it. He made it seem as though kids are on their phones so…

In the short documentary Shakespeare Uncovered by PBS the host Ethan Hawke led the documentary on playing Macbeth and how to play him. Macbeth written by Shakespeare in 1606 is about a man who is told one day he would become king. He takes it as he has to kill the king to become king which he ends up doing and slowly he loses his sanity until eventually he dies. Ethan Hawke goes over how one can’t just play Macbeth, that to play him you have to understand what type of life he lived and what he…

English Essay The short film genre opens up an increased variety of personal options for the director as they are able to address more troubling topics in reality such as war, which enables the overall message to be transferred to the audience within a limited amount of time. Short films, known for it’s creative freedom, due to lower commercial restrictions, allow the director to make personal choices and express creative ideas in a more effective way given a shorter period of time. This can be…

Wow! It 's been a while hasn 't it? Well today marks exactly 2 days, 19 hours, and minutes until I depart from the airport on my third missions trip to Guatemala!! It 's another two week trip which means deciding what to pack becomes infinitely harder. So below, I 've decided to include my packing list! Hopefully this helps you packing for either a missions trip to Guatemala, a missions trip in general, or just overall leaving the U.S.  Food - Obviously I put the most important thing first!…