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Shaun the Sheep-Still Life (2007)

Shaun the Sheep-Still Life (2007)

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Released 5-Sep-2007

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Details At A Glance

General Extras
Category Childrens None
Rating Rated G
Year Of Production 2007
Running Time 56:51
RSDL / Flipper No/No Cast & Crew
Start Up Menu
Region Coding 4 Directed By Richard Goleszowski
Richard Webber
Christopher Sadler
Studio
Distributor

Roadshow Home Entertainment
Starring None Given
Case Amaray-Transparent
RPI ? Music Mark Thomas


Video Audio
Pan & Scan/Full Frame None English Dolby Digital 2.0 (224Kb/s)
Widescreen Aspect Ratio 1.78:1
16x9 Enhancement
16x9 Enhanced
Video Format 576i (PAL)
Original Aspect Ratio 1.78:1 Miscellaneous
Jacket Pictures No
Subtitles None Smoking No
Annoying Product Placement No
Action In or After Credits No

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Plot Synopsis

    Title of Show : Shaun the Sheep

    Title of Disc : Still Life

    Year of Production : 2006

    Country of origin : United Kingdom

    What's included? :  8 episodes.

    Episode Length : 7 minutes each.

    Details of episodes : 

This DVD contains the following episodes

      1. Timmy in a Tizzy -  A baby sheep gets upset when the farmer takes his teddy. Shaun sets out to get it back.
      2. Mower Mouth - The farmer adds a fast eating goat to the farm.
      3. Take Away - The farmer gets pizza and the farm animals want some.
      4. Mountains out of Molehills - A mole shows up in the sheep's paddock.
      5. Little Sheep of Horrors - The baby sheep, Timmy gets lost and ends up in the farmer's house watching television.
      6. Scrumping - Shaun wants some apples from the tree in the pig pen but the pigs don't want to let him have any.
      7. Saturday Night Shaun - The sheep get hold of a record player and start their own dance party.
      8. Still Life - The farmer takes up painting but the sheep cause trouble.

    Style of Production : Stop motion clay animation.

    Premise of show : Shaun the Sheep is the latest Aardman creation using stop motion clay animation. The titular character originally appeared in A Close Shave with Wallace & Gromit, but now has his own show. He inhabits a small world with no dialogue. The regular characters are the farmer, his sheepdog Bitzer, his cat, the farmer's mean pigs, Shaun and a flock of sheep who mostly follow Shaun's lead. Shaun tends to get himself involved in all manner of crazy schemes but always knows how to get himself out. The stories are told through sight gags, music and noises. It appears locally on ABC for Kids.

    Age Group : 2-8

    Related to any other children's shows? : Wallace & Gromit, Creature Comforts.

    Adult's view : This is a lot of fun with many great sight gags.

    Child's view : Kids get a lot of laughs out of this well made, amusing and inventive show.

    Other Releases of this show available? : This is the second local release of the show.

    Overall : Great show especially for fans of Wallace & Gromit.

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Transfer Quality

Video

    The video quality is very good.

    The feature is presented in a 1.78:1 aspect ratio and is 16x9 enhanced, which is probably the original aspect ratio.

    The picture was quite clear and sharp throughout sporting a quite healthy bitrate, with no evidence of low level noise.

    The colour was excellent.

    There are no noticeable artefacts.

    There are no subtitles.

     

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Audio

    The audio quality is very good.

    This DVD contains an English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo soundtrack encoded at 224 Kb/s.

    Dialogue was clear and easy to understand and there was no problem with audio sync.

    The surround speakers were used quite a bit for atmosphere.

    The subwoofer got quite a lot of use for the theme and other sound effects.

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Extras

    None.

Menu

    The menu allowed for selecting the episodes or playing all.

R4 vs R1

NOTE: To view non-R4 releases, your equipment needs to be multi-zone compatible and usually also NTSC compatible.

     This disc is not available in other regions although another similar release is available in Region 2 containing some of the same episodes.

Summary

    Great new show from Aardman reprising the Shaun the Sheep character from A Close Shave.

    The video quality is very good.

    The audio quality is very good.

    No Extras.

Ratings (out of 5)

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© Daniel Bruce (Do you need a bio break?)
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Review Equipment
DVDPioneer DV667A DVD-V DVD-A SACD, using Component output
DisplaySony FD Trinitron Wega KV-AR34M36 80cm. Calibrated with Digital Video Essentials (PAL). This display device is 16x9 capable. This display device has a maximum native resolution of 576i (PAL)/480i (NTSC).
Audio DecoderBuilt in to amplifier/receiver. Calibrated with Video Essentials.
AmplificationPioneer VSX-511
SpeakersMonitor Audio Bronze 2 (Front), Bronze Centre & Bronze FX (Rears) + Yamaha YST SW90 subwoofer

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