The Village

The Village (1993)

A village is ruled by the church, but is filled with hypocritical sinners who constantly spy on each other.

Date of release
1993-05-01
TMDB
7.6 / 10 (24)
Runtime
14m
Genres
Animation
Director
Mark Baker

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1

The Village, is a 1993 Oscar-nominated British animated short film directed by Mark Baker. The short film was animated using traditional hand-drawn animation. The film, directed and written by Baker, and produced by Pam Dennis, takes place in the eponymous village where the majority of the inhabitants are hypocrites. The main protagonists are the village gardener and his married lover, an abused housewife. Things become complicated for the lovers when the woman's husband murders a miserly neighbour to steal his gold and frames the gardener.

Production

The production of the short animation film took about 3 months as stated by Baker, the film was produced by a team of 32 animators including Baker, five sound engineers, one Cameraman and electrical engineer, one editor, one producer and one more person for additional crew.

"I liked the idea of the village having a definite inside and outside, with most of the characters staying in their houses and occasionally scuttling across the courtyard from one building to another. I worked out a basic plan for the layout of the houses and who was going to live in each one.

Since the characters walk about a lot, this layout was one of the few things that remained constant through all the drafts of the script and storyboarding."

"Once I had completed what I regarded as the final draft of the script, I translated it into a drawn storyboard by first printing out the typed script under blank storyboard squares. Filling in these blank squares with drawings was a very fast process, since I had been imagining the action, and writing about it for so long.

"The Village started life as a sort of reaction to The Hill Farm. I wanted to show a darker side of rural or isolated life, and I wanted the whole story to come from elements within the location, rather than having other characters turning up to get the action going. I spent a lot of time just trying to invent elements that could fit into this kind of situation.

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