Jessica Carter Professional Practice: Study task 4

Animation as Entertainment

'Birdboy: The forgotten children' is a Spanish animated movie that has English subtitles played throughout the movie. This story is based on friends that have been stranded on a post-apocalyptic world and are trying to find a way to escape. It is co-directed by Alberto Vàzquez and is based upon a graphic novel.

Spirited Away is a Japanese animated feature that tells a story of a girl who finds an abandoned amusement park. Chihiro is told she has to work at the amusement park, which holds supernaturals beings, to release herself and her parents who have been turned into pigs. This was directed by Hayao Miyazaki.

'Anomalisa' (2015) was released on the 11th March 2016 in the United Kingdom however, it is an American stop-motion animation. The directors of this stop motion are Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson. The film tells a story of man that looks at every individual as the same and struggles to come to terms with life; until he meets Lisa who may be able to help him escape from inside his head.

'Waltz With Bashir' (2008) is an Israeli war animated film that was directed by Ari Foleman. Ari Foleman also stars in this movie as an 19 year old soldier. This movie is based on the events in which occurred in the 1882 war with Lebanon and after all the terror Ari Foleman's character has no memory of any of the events. This film mainly focuses on post-traumatic stress and disorders.

'The Wrong Trousers' (1993) is a British stop-motion animation directed by Nick Park. It tells a story of the well-known characters 'Wallace and Gromit' that has created a mechanical object that will be able to dress him in the morning. However, an evil penguin then starts to take over Wallace's life and Wallace and Gromit are left to save the day.