Two women work in the announcement and camera booth at Tottenham Court Rd Tube station. Aside from doing the standard regular announcements, they seem to spend much of their time using the cameras to check out men and watch the interactions of the people on the trains and platforms.
This short film from Blackwatch Productions opens with a cool piece of animation that sees the camera glide downwards through a cutaway of tube platforms and escalators, all in silhouette. It is a cool effect and it is quite surprising then to find that the rest of the film is heavy handed and, well, ugly. A mix of live action and animation, the film doesn't have a lot of substance since it focuses on the rather letchy interests of two female Tube employees. The material didn't provide much in the way of interest to me and any humour didn't work. This leaves the style to do the heavy work, which is normally the one thing you can pretty much be sure of from Blackwatch produced Mesh films.
Sadly here the style is lacking. The animation looks really basic and the ideas thrown onto the screen between the CCTV footage (graphs and graphics) aren't clever or that well done. It doesn't help to have cast the main character as an annoying woman with a horrible voice it does really suck the style out of it, and the crude final line didn't help ether. Overall the film was a real shock to me on this site I am usually gushing in my praise for Blackwatch films but here I am sad to say, credit animation aside, this is roundly poor and very much out of keeping with the usual high standards of Mesh.
This short film from Blackwatch Productions opens with a cool piece of animation that sees the camera glide downwards through a cutaway of tube platforms and escalators, all in silhouette. It is a cool effect and it is quite surprising then to find that the rest of the film is heavy handed and, well, ugly. A mix of live action and animation, the film doesn't have a lot of substance since it focuses on the rather letchy interests of two female Tube employees. The material didn't provide much in the way of interest to me and any humour didn't work. This leaves the style to do the heavy work, which is normally the one thing you can pretty much be sure of from Blackwatch produced Mesh films.
Sadly here the style is lacking. The animation looks really basic and the ideas thrown onto the screen between the CCTV footage (graphs and graphics) aren't clever or that well done. It doesn't help to have cast the main character as an annoying woman with a horrible voice it does really suck the style out of it, and the crude final line didn't help ether. Overall the film was a real shock to me on this site I am usually gushing in my praise for Blackwatch films but here I am sad to say, credit animation aside, this is roundly poor and very much out of keeping with the usual high standards of Mesh.