Eat

            Eat uses one common theme to create a story that displays the beauty and importance of travel with friends. This common theme, of course, is food. As Rick Mereki, Tim White and Andrew Lees discovered on their journey, food can be representative of the spirit of travel: discovering new things, experiencing pleasure and discomfort and everything in between.

            The three friends make this statement in less than a minute by focusing almost exclusively on the food. Using an interesting technique in the beginning, they split the screen down the middle to showcase the exotic fare they sampled in immediate focus. What I found to be quite powerful was the way they slowly expanded this focus to include facial expressions and short shots to capture the place and time. It was only possible to maintain the central theme and expand the view by beginning with the split shot – and by gradually moving outwards, they were able to keep the common thread and create a delightful essay on travel in only one minute of running time.

Watch here: Eat