The short film I’ll be focusing on will be “Shop: A Pop Opera” by Jack Stauber.
I was drawn to this one specifically partially because of its unorthodox style, its animation, its music, and its themes & message. The other part is because of the creator’s most well-known work, Opal. I was going to talk about that short, but I went with Shop because of how many people already talked about Opal online and the lack of discussion around the latter.
I particularly want to talk about the themes and animation of the short the most, but I’m going to try to see if I can find anything revolving around the actual production of the film, which might be difficult since I’m not sure if the creator really talks about the behind-the-scenes aspects of his work.
