PR02: Clearance Animated Short

Clearance - Animated Short from Lee Daniels on Vimeo.

Clearance is an entertaining short at 4 minutes long. The main theme of this short is communication; the main character (presumably someone with little common sense) repeatedly tries to enter a high security facility with his library card, racking up the number on the 'intruder alert'. Most of the comedy comes about because of a lack of communication; the other agents fail to realise that it is the main character trying to get in, and as he enters the main room, it looks to them like he is the intruder. Upon entering the room himself, the man character sees the intruder alert, not realising that it means him, and assumes that the other agents shooting at him are the intruders instead. It is the main character's actions that set off this story and continue it; he continues not to have the best common sense throughout the video as the whole building collapses because of him, which could be considered a twist ending it it didn't seem like anything quite so dramatic would happen throughout this, especially massive damage to his own workplace. The story is fairly simple - everything happens because of the character's mistakes and consequences, which though unexpected does make sense rather than throwing in random new plot points, especially with elements being hinted at from the start, like the missiles.