Leeds international Film Festival - Expelled from Paradise

Expelled from Paradise is a CGI animation merged with backgrounds that absorb a mixture of 3D and 2D elements. This helped the atmosphere of the desolate earth that the humans left behind. I quite liked this setting, it meant that the overall appearance of the earth would look distressed which was captured nicely in the backgrounds. I found the overall animation of the characters to be quite fluid, it worked successfully and more realistic, compared to the slowed down movements seen in The Case of Hana and Alice. In addition the CGI in Expelled from Paradise appeared to have the facial features drawn on top. Whether this was a creative choice to have the facial features 2D or an amazing form of texture was used in the 3D software, it worked well for the overall appearance of the show.

The storytelling was slow and did have a crescendo but wasn't enough in my opinion, however I did like how the 'terrorist' was a good guy throughout, even though the plot was obvious. I think the storytelling was missing focus on the main two characters of the show. The beginning of the show purely focused on the main woman character and too much time was shown of just her, if a connection between the two characters had been shown longer throughout the film, the reasoning between the characters relationship at the end of the animation would then be reasonable.

Cinematography was nice during fight scenes, it immersed the viewer in the action, even in slow scenes the dialogue was made interesting with different shots that were used. I quite liked the CG in the ending act, everything was nicely textured so it worked more successfully with the backgrounds and 2D elements in the facial features.

The most inspirational elements were the cinematography and use of backgrounds. I want to absorb their use of cinematography, analysing techniques of cinematography further which I will be researching into for my COP3 project.