Opened ｜Animated Short Film 2022｜CommDe

Opened (Communication Design Senior Project 2022)

For a kid to eat with an open mind, parents must also be open to changes. Opened is an animated short film about how parenting and environmental factors influence a kid’s eating behavior. The project aims to help parents understand more about kid picky eaters and how to deal with them more efficiently.

Director: Nathanich Chantharojwong
Storyboard Artist, Editor, Animator, Compositor: Nathanich Chantharojwong
Sound Designer: Supakorn Wongsumdang
Original Music: Supakorn Wongsumdang
Sound Editor: Peerapat Kittivachra
Project Advisors: Teema Muekthong, Peerapat Kittivachra

Copyright: ©Nathanich Chanttharojwong 2022

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Communication Design Program, Chulalongkorn University

[Natnathanich]

Thank you so much everyone for watching my animation☺️! I am very happy to see many of you sharing your own personal stories and childhood experiences. If you like my work, please hit like and subscribe for more videos in the future. 😊😊😊

Ps. Many of you ask why the setting of the story is in Thailand. That’s because I’m Thai…That’s all 😀

[thinkink]

as someone who has a lot of trouble eating certain foods, this is amazing. perfectly captures the anxiety you get when people try to force you to eat something. Wonderful work

[raindoesnotexist]

The only way to make a child like vegetables is to make them try it themself, not forced. I knew what he felt

[Socks_incorporated]

As an autistic person I can fully relate to this video, the pure anxiety of trying a food I wasn’t comfortable with or a food that triggered my sensory issues made it feel like I just couldn’t eat at all and how when ppl forced me to eat it how angry and distressed I became. This is a love letter to everyone with food issues in my opinion

[fiorettiduseigneurcapybara]

Im in tears, when I was younger I was very picky and mom used too yell at me for not eating certains foods, thankfully now days my tastbuds have changed and now eat a lot of food except : pumpkins, oysters, and mushrooms.

[patterns]

I love how the mother uses cooking as a way to teach her boy how to love food. No pressure just “hey, come help me cook. See the beauty of making something.” And then the technique of showing their child how they enjoy vegetables and want to support him lovingly.
It’s heartbreaking that the parents didn’t want their child to end up bullied but in the process unwittingly bullied their child themselves.

[unidentifiedwalkingperson]

This actually looks horrifying. I know it's pretty ridiculous to think that trying something as harmless as vegetables would be scary but as kids, this is really how most people felt. I love how that childish but also serious fear was captured in this animation. Great work ❤️

[gisellechausse]

I liked the Symbolism of the boy losing his mouth, like he has an eating disorder. And his parents' reaction marks the instant they notice he's going hungry. It was only once they put less pressure on eating vegetables that he starts eating of his own volition

[kibaelunal]

This video hits me right in the core of my emotions. My ASD gives me sensory issues both with taste and textures, to the point where I had massive food anxiety. My mother used to joke that if someone put a gun to my head and told me to eat mashed potatoes (one of my many trigger foods), I was the only person she knew who'd consider the bullet first. It really does cause so much anxiety and stress, to the point where I've developed certain behaviors with food.

One of my roughest moments was when I was in middle school. I was very skinny because of my medicine, and my friend's mom decided to "fatten me up" by making me eat a full 3 course meal. When I refused to eat some cooked carrots she made, she said she wouldn't let me leave the house unless I ate everything left in the pot. Normally, I could just wash it down with a drink like a bitter pill, but she wouldn't even let me do that. I didn't understand, and I still don't, why she wouldn't even let me do that. I'd still be eating the food. It got to the point where I threw up in the sink from my sensory issues, but she rolled her eyes and said I still had to eat what was left. After that it took years before I'd let anyone watch me eat. I'd take food to my room or sit by myself at lunch.

Now I'm an adult and I've still got many of those same tendencies. I usually won't eat food prepared by friends, unless they're prepackaged or done buffet style.

I love this animation because it captures those feelings perfectly.

[Cherubthepuppet]

As someone with anxiety and SPD (sensory processing disorder) eating certain foods can be hell for me(because of the way it feels, smells, etc.), especially when there are people constantly yelling at me for “being a picky eater”. I related to this way too easily.

[zaxwock]

เราแค่หัดแล้วลองทำให้เขาดู และจิตใจ คนไทยด้วยกันเข้าใจกันดี💗✨✨

[cottagefairy]

The movie is amazing and captures the emotions so well.
Force feeding has always been quite prominent in my family. Everyone has a big appetite and they get so confused when they see me eat less. Anyway It led to a lot of issues, throwing up, tummy aches and mental breakdowns everything. I feel extremely uncomfortable eating with them and whenever my family is not around/I'm alone I stop eating. Whenever I get a chance, 'not eating' becomes a freedom to me.
Ironically I love cooking and that does help a bit because I feel in control, of how much I cook and how much I eat.

[Audrey._.Likeswatchinglol]

moral of the story: Never force kids to eat their veggies, Instead make the veggies into a work of art or show them how delicious the veggies urself.

[TreeckoJedi]

Somehow the fact that this has no dialogue, but rather heartbreaking squeaks and frustrated grunts makes this all the more better.

[TheFloraBonBon]

I remember when i was a kid and my teachers forced me to try something new which was tomato soup for lunch and told me. "If you don't eat it then no recess!" Each time i tried to, i gagged so badly and i started crying. At the end of the day i told my mother and boy was she so mad at them.

[stinkykaiser.]

As a child who felt uncomfortable eating vegetables all the time I can relate to this, sometimes it can be hard to have vegetables, especially when your forced

[sourturtle]

As a kid I hated carrots, couldn’t stand them and would avoid them like the plague. Then once I got a stomach illness and certain foods didn’t agree with me anymore, carrots became my go to. Parents, please don’t force your kids to do things that they simply do not want to do if it can be helped. They’ll get it eventually :)

[Breezely]

As a kid, I was a very picky eater. I wouldn't even eat lettuce. Because of the sensory feel. And there was so much pressure around it that I felt unable to try anything bc I was already overwhelmed from the thought of eating it. Finally as an adult/teen I started actually being able to try new things bc there was no pressure to. It hasn't always worked out, but now I can eat a lot more things!

[ggng]

I’ve never seen a video which captures how I feel about many foods so perfectly.
The fear, the physical effects, and how others react.
It’s so perfectly captured and well made, you’re very talented<3

[peppybreyer]

I have major food sensitivities and I’m a really picky eater and this is 100% how it feels. The anxiety that comes from certain foods. No body around you gets it and it usually ends up with you being force fed which only makes it worse