Feature film vs. Short film

 

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          This is a comparison of the feature film to the short film. 

           Overall, both were very appealing to me. I loved the animation quality of both. The short film was a little more confusing than the actual film. That's reasonable because they could only fit so much into 7 minutes, y'know? Watching the actual feature film cleared up the misunderstanding I had in the short film. That's really cool. The feature film was definitely more "violent" than the short film. I put violent in quotation marks because I wouldn't classify it as violent. Obviously, they're different when it comes to animation. The movie 9 had almost 50 million in budget money, the short film probably didn't. The location and whoever helped animate it also played a role in that. Both were amazing in their own respective ways. The storyline? That was immaculate. The animations? That was amazing. I find it really cool when animators can give the characters that emotion. The looks on their faces when something bad has happened, it's incredible. For example, when 5 died in the film, you could see the grief in 9's face. Same with when whoever that was, died in the short film. Or when anyone died, you can see the emotions in the character's faces when it happens. I also thought adding the fact that the characters are all part of the scientist's soul was a really cool touch. That's such a rad idea. 

9: The full film.

 

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          I'm just getting ready to watch the 9 film. I was impressed with the short film, so I have high hopes for the full film. I'm about 10 minutes in, I don't understand why that one character is drawing all the symbols. But, I guess that's something I'll find out. It's cool that 9 is able to speak now. I'm at the 25-minute mark and, wow. It's really nice that 9 went back to save 2, and that they convinced 5 (I think it's 5, I might be wrong.) to come with them. It's been one minute and wow 9 killed 2 after saving them, what a bummer. 9 really said "I'm sorry" like he didn't just carelessly take the life of 2,, shameful. At the 36-minute mark, 9 is really out here calling out 1, what an icon. 4 minutes later, wow what a scene. That fight scene was so rad. Why is 1 so mean, everything that comes out of their mouth is so uncalled for. 53-minutes in, for the robots being extremely smart, they've fallen for the fake-cloth person a bunch of times. 56-minutes in, That was funny, just as you thought everything was going to be okay, they hit you with the big bad machine. It's really sad how 5 had to die, that's so sad. An hour in, that's so strange why did 9 touch the dead guy's face? I got to the end, and let me tell you,, The end was rough I almost cried. I thought they were going to go back to living and it'll all be okay, but no. 

          I found the ending really sad, but the entire thing was so good. I really liked the idea of the film, and I really like how they played the entire thing out. The animation was really good for 2009, better than the animation in the actual short film. I was not disappointed at all, I had high hopes and those high hopes were satisfied. I liked the story, and the animation, all the components are *chefs kiss*.

9 The short film

 

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          I'm going to watch the 9 short film. I like films, so I'm excited. I'm about 2 minutes in. I'm super impressed with this, I like how the animation is high quality considering it's from 2009. The part where the monster sucked the life force out of number 5 (I'm pretty sure, I couldn't keep track of their numbers.) It startled me. I think it's cool that 9 wasn't able to talk, at least so far. You'd think it would be hard for a voiceless character to be able to communicate. Even though it's an animated short film, you can sense the fear and the panic in their faces every time they're met with a daunting task. I think their antagonist is very creative. A robot with a skull looking thing as a face? That's so cool. All the characters are really smart, their antagonist included. I thought the ending was confusing, though. What was that glowing orb? How did it do what it did? Questions like that. 

          Overall, I think the short film was amazing. It was really entertaining and it had a thriller-ey type feel. It gave me that, small anxiety feeling. It kept me on the edge of my seat, not literally though. It was really good, It'd given me high hopes for the feature film. I liked the concept, it's really interesting and I'm happy they made a feature film for it. Great ideas like these are what makes the world go around, y'know?

Genre Choice For The Film.

 

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          I'm going to explain my pitch and the genre and why I chose the genre. Okay, so, the pitch. It was originally something I was going to do with last year's final project. I didn't do it because I ended up working with Peter.  I'm on my own now, so I can choose what I want and I'm the only one to blame if something goes wrong. I came up with this pitch in particular because at the time I was thinking about stuff I could do myself. As you might have read through, I didn't work by myself so that was out of the picture. I picked the thriller genre because I like the genre. In a nutshell, Thriller is kind of like horror but with a more phycological and thinking aspect. There's the weird stuff that happens that doesn't seem useful to the plot, but it ends up being important, y'know? Anyways. I don't want my film to be extremely creepy because I have no clue how to do that. I don't know how to do stuff like that. I might teach myself, though. I picked the other two genres because I thought they were somewhat similar. Similar in a way that it would be more on the easy side to explain the aspects of the genre. At this point, I don't know if I'm going to have to change my pitch. I have no clue. So far I've come up with nothing better, so that's something to consider. I've also considered trying to pick something easier to film. I might not be able to have people over and I don't know if my brother would want to help. But it's all good. I'm going to figure everything out and it's all going to turn out great.

I hope so.

Anyways, Have a good rest of your day, here's a picture of Uncle Iroh, may he give you good advice and cool tea.

Genre Research- Action

 

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          CAMS in this genre. Common camera angles include high angles, low angles, wide angles, extreme wide angles, and such. Common camera shots include long shots, extreme long shots, eye-level shots, over the shoulder shots, full shots, aerial shots, establishing shots, shot reverse shots, and such. Common camera movements include zooms, tilts, pans, dollies, etc. In a lot of action movies, one of the goals is to show the whole character, that's a common thing found in superhero movies.

        CLAMPS. Common costumes include superhero-ish clothing, formal wear, casual wear, and more. Common lighting includes usually dim, more on the lighter side lighting. Common acting includes classical acting, method acting, Meisner acting, and such. Common make-up includes regular common makeup, bloody makeup, superhero(for lack of a better term) makeup, and such. Common props include weapons, vehicles, masks, clothes, animals, etc. Common scenes include big cities or residential areas with lots of people. They want to make someone look cool so people can focus both on the character and the situation they're in. 

          Sound and editing. Common sound includes diegetic sound, non-diegetic sound, scores, aerial sounds, dialogue, and voiceovers. Common editing includes eyeliner matches, action matches, inserts, jump cuts, cutaways, dissolves, fade in, fade out, shot reverse shots, etc.

          In all honesty, what I feel about the action genre depends on the film I'm watching. I don't usually like superhero stuff, but there are acceptions. Exceptions for me would include films like Deadpool, Birds of prey, Wonder Woman, and The Maze Runner films. I like stuff like that because I know that they're good, so. I don't know. I don't really like the kind of repetitive plots in the action genre. Most films are like, someone loses someone and needs to get honor or something. That's a lot of films but everyone with that plot executes it way differently which is cool. Superhero films are just full of a lot of pointless fights and that's not it for me. 

I realize that the superhero stuff that I listed have repetitive, predictable fights, but the ones I listed are the ones that I found good. Anyways.

Genre Research- Horror

 

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          CAMS of the Horror genre, that's going to be cool. Common camera angles include the high angle, low angle, dutch angle, medium angle, close up, extreme close up, etc. Common camera movements include tilts, pans, zooms, dollys, and dolly zooms. Common camera shots include establishing shot, over the shoulder shots, master shots, and such. This genre includes a lot of close face shots to capture emotions. One of the most liked aspects of this genre is the emotions it captures. The rush you get when you get the close-up of someone slowly slipping, it's astonishing. 

          CLAMPS. Common costumes in this genre include formal or casual wear. Common lighting is dark, or dim, but depending on the context it could be all light and cheery. Common acting can include method acting, classical acting, and such. Common make-up can include just casual blemish-covering makeup and gory-makeup. Common props mainly include weapons, dummies, just about anything. Common scenes include closed spaces, like houses, caves, warehouses, and basements. It's usually on the darker side. They want that creepy aspect, so sometimes they'll put that semi-well dressed person in a dark room with a bunch of people. Usually, they have a more eerie or disturbing vibe.

         Common sound and editing. Common sound includes dialogues, diegetic sound, non-diegetic sound, ambient sound, scores (depending), and voiceovers(also depending). Common editing includes action matches, eyeline matches, inserts, jump cuts, cutaways, shot reverse shots, and such. Editing and sound are important in this genre, they want you to feel scared with what they're doing, they want you to feel unnerved. That's pretty cool. 

          I like horror films, they're cool. I like how they can mess with your mind with the plot twists and the insane skill of the actors. Some examples of films in this genre include IT, Pet Sematary, and Chucky.

Genre Research- Thriller

 

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          We're going to start the genre research sequence. Starting off with Thriller, here it is. Common camera angles include the high angle, low angle, dutch angle, medium angle, and such. Those are usually used to show disorientation and power. Common camera movements include pans, tilts, zooms, and such. Those are to show character movement, also to enhance the look on certain people's faces at certain points. Common camera shots include, two shots(three shots, etc) establishing shots, over-the-shoulder shots, close up shots, wide shots, etc. These shots help to develop character and also show the faces of the people. Shots and angles are very important in this genre, you gotta give the distortion in their faces and stuff like that.

          CLAMPS. Common costumes in this genre just include formal or casual-wear. Common lighting for this genre is on the darker side usually, it's to give that eerie theme. Common acting includes craziness, disassociation, and such. Thrillers, (specifically phycological thrillers, but I guess it can carry over) sometimes involve someone with mental illnesses, the plot will revolve around their illness getting worse and in some cases, it drives them into insanity which will also be part of the plot. Common make-up consists of just, regular natural make-up, also some fake blood depending on the film. Common props include weapons and such. There are so many different props in the thriller genre there would be too many to name. There are mainly weapons in thriller films, though. Common settings include dark, secluded places. Abandoned places like warehouses or bunkers, or just out and the open. 

          Now, on to sound. Sound in this genre includes divergent sound, non-divergent sound, ambient sound, dialogue, incidentals, and such. Common editing in the thriller genre includes eye-line matches, action matches, shot reverse shots, cutaways, jump cuts, etc. Sound and editing are both important when it comes to any genre. 

          I like thriller movies. I like how they make you think, how there's usually something morbidly disturbing in every film. I like how some of them leave you on a cliffhanger. I like the really good ones that leave you wanting another part to the film. Thriller movies are really cool. A couple examples of thriller movies are The Invisible man, Split, and The Silence of the Lambs. I've watched the first two, they were really good movies. They both left me on an edge, they were both movies with really good plots. 

          I hope you have a good rest of your day. 

   

Genres I would like to research

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          The last blog I did explained my pitch. I can admit, it's a little rough. That's not the point. Since the film is going to be about a stalker, I think it's fitting to make it a thriller or a horror film. I'm not 100% sure about that yet, so I'm going to research both the thriller and horror genre. I chose both of these not just because they fit the pitch, but because they seem like cool things to do. I looked up thriller and I'm leaning towards that as of now. I'm going to pick action as well. The three genres I'm going to research are Action. Thriller, and Horror. All of them can fit well with the pitch, and that's cool. I like all of the genres, they're all pretty cool. Coming up with the pitch was difficult. I didn't know what I was going to do and I'm still not 100% sure that I'm going to stick with it, but we'll see. There's a bunch of different genres that my pitch could've gone into. But then again, it would be kind of hard to make a movie about a stalker into a comedy or something like that, y'know? Anyways, I came up with the pitch after thinking about it for a while. That pitch was an idea I had last year, but I didn't pick it. Also, I'm working alone which is cool. I'm going to have to either work the camera and act in it or ask my brother to help again. My brother didn't do too bad the last time, but I don't know if he would want to help. I mean, I can just find someone else but oh well. It's something I can work out at another time.