Friday, March 14, 2008

The Old Woman





The protagonist or antagonist in this short narrative, depending on your personal view...

Poster

This is a portion of the clip from the poster that invokes suspicion of fellow riders, and thusly leads to biases and sorts of racism... this is one of the clues to help the viewer know that 'hey, there's something big happenning here!' The other major clue happens the scene prior to this one with the young man that walks by (back facing viewer) with a picture of an elephant on the shirt that is itself animated (by far, the most difficult set of drawings to edit considering there's two different animations taking place. 1) the man walking in 'real time' and 2) the elephant which moves on its own so as to call attention to it and the idea of the 'elephant in the room' phrase