The Life Size Zoetrope by Mark Simon Hewis

The tempo of the music really emphasizes the speed in which he is moving in life. 

•       Starts of with no music,
•       As the zoetrope starts and the images of the sonogram start to resembles a fetus, slow tempo music starts
•       As feuts develops into a baby tempo increase until baby is born.
•       Throughout the short film there is the constant beat
•      Once he is dying at the end the tempo slows and music stops.

This is a good way of engaging the audience with the speed of his life.

The use of a zoetrope to create the film symbolises the circle of life and repetitiveness that is experienced in life, for example when he was born  he was at home and says ‘my mum shouting at my dad, my dad shouting at my mum” then when his wife was giving birth to their child they were also at home and say ‘I was shouting at her shouting at me.’ 

I really like this as a short film as how Mark Simon Hewis has used the zoetrope to show his life. When watching it you can not tell easily whether he has enhanced the images in post production or whether all those images were on the note pads that the people were holding. The style in which the images appeared helped with the whole feel to the film as they were not the sharpest of images, so worked well with being all jumpy as it flicked between note pads.