How Nick Park communicates meaning to an audience in the opening minutes of “A Close Shave”

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Adam Bradwell 10Q8

How Nick Park communicates meaning to an audience in the opening minutes of “A Close Shave”

In this essay I will be discussing how Nick Park communicates meaning to an audience in the opening minutes of A Close Shave.

Nick Park is a very well known animated moviemaker. He first produced Wallace and gromit’s first adventure in his attic. It took him four years to make the film we know as “A Grand Day Out”.

He then went on to make other films when he started work for Aardman animation’s, an already well-known film company.

Some of his films are; The Wrong Trousers (with Wallace and Gromit), Creature Comforts, A Close Shave (also with Wallace and Gromit) and most recently he finished the Hollywood blockbuster- Chicken Run.

I will be analysing A Close Shave.

One second of his film takes twenty-four camera shots in which the models have to be moved twenty four times.

Nick Park has won three Oscars for his work with animation in recent years. Over the years Nick Park has become very rich not only from the money he has made from his films but also from the money from a huge merchandising scheme linked with the Wallace and Gromit films.

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In A Close Shave the animation is rarely found anywhere else to such good effect. A Close Shave is made with mostly plasticine models. Backdrops and scenery would take hours upon hours to make. The pasticine models are moved ever so slightly and are then filmed for a fraction of a second. It takes twenty-four shots to film just one second of the movie. So when someone is watching the film it gives the impression that the characters and objects are actually moving.

The people that made A Close Shave used every possible resource e.g. diagetic and non-diagetic sounds, ...

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