Oliver Wallace-Vorberg's Blog

 Tight Jeans - Short Film Evaluation Destiny Ekaragha: “I think sometimes laughter is the best way to talk about serious issues, because it stays in your head longer. Dramas are great and I’d like to do one, but at the moment I’m loving laughter.” Do you think this is true? Can comedy be a way of finding deeper truths as much as tragedy? Personally I think that yes, comedy is one of the better methods of exploring darker themes. While darker topics should obviously be treated with a degree of respect and cautiousness, it makes sense to have a joke about them, because, as Ekaragha says, "it stays in your head longer". This is certainly a fine line though, as there have been way too many cases in which risqué jokes have gone too far, where someone tries to make a deep and meaningful comment about society through comedy, and it just comes across as plain insensitivity. This line means that this can either work well in displaying these deeper, more poignant themes, or it can back...

 The Ellington Kid - Short Film Evaluation The Ellington Kid follows a pair of friends who get some food at a fast-food kebab shop, as one of them tells the other about the Ellington Kid. Flashbacks depict the events as we see a kid get stabbed and hunted into the same kebab shop in which the present-day scenes occur. These flashbacks crescendo into the kebab workers preparing to face off with the gang that stabbed the kid, only to cut away, before Nathan asks Beefy "Why'd you think I only got the fries?", implying that the gang were murdered and turned into the burger that Beefy is eating. The ending is quite open, as we see the same kebab worker from the flashback staring the pair down while sharpening knives, meaning that Nathan's insistence that the story was fake could have just been to save their own skin, a shockingly dark ending. The narrative is presented to us through Nathan's telling of the story, positioning the audience with Nathan, who we get ever cl...