Critical Reflection

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How do your products represent social groups or issues?

Looking at it with just the knowledge of what the film is about, it is not about any social groups or issues. It's just a student film about some guy being stalked by another random person and meeting a new "neighbor". For the sake of the question in its contents, it represents the social issue of stalking and breaking and entering and represents the social groups of people who have been stalked and victims of breaking and entering. It is an issue because, well, you, a stalker robber person is harming someone or causing distress to someone, that is an issue. It represents stalking and breaking and entering as a normal thing because of bad acting from the lead. But in reality, it is a very scary thing to go through. The aftermath I can imagine is scarier because of the violation of privacy. In my film, it is not really seen as that. It shows the action, but not really the realistic outcome or even a realistic visual of the situation itself happening. Again that is mainly due to poor acting and also poor communication on my part. The explanation for that is my brother is not the best at doing what was told, also he is just not really good at acting and the such in general. An example of this would be the part of my film where he makes this really strange expression at the computer. It is not just on him, it is on me as well. To be completely honest I never thought of the outcome of something like that. I never thought that I should make the situation more intense, that would have been a good touch. 

How do the elements of your production work together to create a sense of ‘branding’?

They work together in a pretty direct way, if that makes sense.They work together to show that this is the name of what we are doing, and this is what we are doing, y'know? When it comes to the social medias themselves, they are all the same but it is still reaching out to different people in different ways when you consider that people use some social medias and not others. In that way, it is understood that more people will come together and know the name of the fim; Woman in the Grey Shirt. Though not the most related, branding helps a lot with marketing, it is one of the steps or most helpful things to do when it comes to marketing as a whole. Marketing is the act of making money off of something you have made and gotten out there. Branding is the thing that gets it out there, branding will get your name and what you do known so that people who are interested will tune into that. When it comes to me and my project, for example, I gave the name of the film to people, they were able to look it up and find it. Branding, giving people the name, made the film easier to find by people who want to see it. If they do not want to see it, well, if you brand well enough and spread your stuff around they are going to have to see it because advertisements(and such) are frequently seen. 

How do your products engage with the audience?

When it comes to things around it like social medias, they engage with audiences a lot and I guess pretty well. I am the only one running it and there is not a lot of people who interact so it is pretty easy to get back to the very few people who have said something to me. There is not really much to engage with or about so it has not really been done. When it comes to the film itself, it does not engage with audiences at all. It is not really relatable in any way either, so. Unless you have been through stuff in the film, like an active break in, stalking, The only engagement it has with the audience is how it makes them feel. Considering it is supposed to be a thriller film, it is supposed to make the audience think. The music is there to be either comforting or distort the original outside ambiance, that depends on how you look at it. Every platform that is online and has a text box can help you engage with audiences, that is what is so cool about the development of technology. We can keep in touch with thousands of people with just the clicks of buttons on a little device. There is so many ways to reach out to people, positively or negatively. No matter what you do, at least one person will have whatever that is in common with you, there, you have engaged in conversation with a person on the internet. What will you become? A rad friendship? Drift away after a few months? Who knows, all that matters is that you had that experience and you were able to expand your social circle as well as your knowledge of how to navigate through media and talk to people with similar interests. 

How did your research inform your products and the way they use or challenge conventions?

Research informed me by shedding light on the different genres that pair with horror and such. It gave me an idea of what kind of film I needed to make, the camera angles, lighting, music, editing techniques I needed to use, etc. all to make a decent film to fit into the Thriller genre. They use conventions by doing stuff like close-ups, zooms, dramatic pauses, dark lighting, and such, those are all conventions of the Thriller and horror genres. It challenges conventions by not really being the stereotypical Thriller film. Although the idea from the film itself could be considered stereotypical, the actual film itself is not. Thriller films are a lot of the time filled with the thought of something bad happening and just fear and panic. That does not really apply to my film. It is more "I do not know what is going to happen so will not worry about it or think about it until it actually happens". I researched through common sense, previous viewing of thriller films, and on engines like google. My overall goal was not to not follow conventions, but it was not to follow conventions either. It was(and is usually) just supposed to be a mix of both, I started this production with no idea what I was going to do about following conventions, I just went with what I thought looked best and I think it worked out. 

Short Film Package

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almost halfway done i guess editing blog

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          I was kind of planning on filming today but that didn't/won't happen because we're busy tonight. I edited some of my stuff instead. I'm going to get all of the rest of it done over the weekend. All we have left to do is edit the rest of it and refilm what we need to refilm. The editing process has gone pretty slowly for a couple reasons. One is that I have had zero motivation all week to do stuff. it's unfortunate. Two is that the way I edit is slow as is. I'll explain how I do it, it's not very exciting but it's something. My sd card divides footage into dates, if your camera is set to the right day and you film, there's a folder that is labeled with the date. With that, I make another folder on my computer and I put every filming session in designated folders so I don't get confused. I add every clip of footage I have into the program and sort through them. From there I trim the clips then I add everything I need to add. It takes a while but its alright. I figured out how to make a whole bunch of clips move in one direction at once, that was cool. It was a very simple thing but it was cool to figure out. We're going to film tomorrow night and I hope to finish all my schoolwork tomorrow so I can focus on editing the film and my website Sunday. It was irresponsible of me to leave it off as long as I have, but there's nothing I can change right now. Also, I remembered last night while falling asleep that I haven't been posting on my social medias. I'm going to post stuff this weekend to make it look fuller. 

  

Outside/daytime filming blog

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          I filmed yesterday, that's pretty cool. We have one more scene to refilm and then we're completely done. Apart from having to re-film twice and stuff being deleted off my sd card, it went pretty well. Through this, I'm also in the process of preparing everything else. I've been piecing everything together while editing and so far it looks fine. So far with editing, I've imported everything I have into the program and I'm slowly but surely putting everything together. I still need to import and edit what I filmed yesterday, but it'll be okay. The dialogue part was funny to do. I told my mom a while ago that if she wanted to help she could, and she agreed. I had told her yesterday what her role was and what she needed to do. I told her and my brother what they needed to say, I described it as "neighborly small talk". My brother thought laughing at the fact that he doesn't know what that is was funny. I did think it was funny that my mom pulled out her 'trying to be polite' voice when saying what she said. It was hard filming the dialogue because they kept laughing, but looking at it now it's reasonable. We had some funny moments throughout filming too. There's a scene where my brother goes and gets the mail and there were people walking by and I could do anything because I didn't want other people walking in the background. Also, at one point my brother dropped the mail he was holding, when we were searching the house for things to pass as mail, he brought out an ad for meat sticks. He said "I dropped my meat sticks" and I thought that was hilarious. Because I forgot to yesterday, I'm going to post everything I need to post on my social medias on my social medias. I still have to fix up my website and such but its a work in progress. I'm probably going to stay up late during the weekend so I'll do it then. 

Re-Filming Blog

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          We filmed a little today and yesterday. Because the film is taking place in a 2 or 3 day period, we might have to film again. It was very overcast yesterday and that was where most of the filming took place. We filmed just the parts that we already have. I decided that we not use any of the previous footage for the final project. I just didn't think they were good enough. Most of it was having to do with the background noise and awkward camera movement. I think I can do better than that so that's what I'm trying to do. I don't think the footage that we have now is bad, I think it needs to be redone just because I need to make it look like it was all done consistently If that makes sense. Anyways. We decided to film for about a half an hour or so. I waited until after my grandparents left to go back to Pennsylvania. Out of all that we got 3 minutes of footage. Cut down will make it maybe 1-2 minutes or so. We filmed the stuff we didn't get to yesterday. That gives context to the consistent statement I made earlier. We're going to film more over the weekend and next week, but I'm not 100% sure about how that's going to turn out. Not very hyped to get back to the school groove, but I get to do online school at home. I'm excited to get everything done, I don't know how it'll turn out but I'll be happy to know it's done and over with. I forgot to take a picture during filming again, so here's a picture of the camera. 

Re-Importing editing blog

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          I hope you had a nice time during your holidays. In the last blog, all I had really done was imported the clips into the program. After I was done with that, I saved it and put it into my media folder. I opened it earlier today and I don't know if it crashed or what but I had to import everything again. I mean, I wasn't that upset considering I didn't really do anything. I had just put the clips together and left them there. Again, I didn't do much. I cut some stuff a little bit, that's all I did. I talked to my brother about the clips not being good and he's okay with redoing it. That's a good thing. My grandparents are leaving on Wednesday I'm pretty sure so we can finish filming later in the week. They've been pretty lenient with me being on devices for work. I have a valid reason, it just that sometimes that's not good enough. My mom has busted in my room and got mad at me for not spending time with my family while I'm doing stuff for this. I tell her what I'm doing and why I'm doing it she just doesn't really apply that information every time. Yeah, so. This week, I plan to film and edit and get most of the stuff done. Titles will be pretty wack this time because it's going to mostly have my name on it. I'm not complaining, it's just a realization. 

Editing blog

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          I decided to actually sort through the new footage and import it into the program today. When I import stuff, I just import every clip that I have and watch each one, and enter it as I go. After that, I trim and add whatever I need to add. So far, I have about 7-8 good clips out of 21. That's not very good. Most of them can fit into a bloopers thing maybe, but still. A lot of them are just not good. They probably could be better with trimming, but I'm not 100% sure. I don't know if I want to make any changes yet because I usually wait until it's all done until I do that. A lot of the clips have audio issues as well. There's stuff that I'd rather not cover up with music, but I dont really have a choice. White noise, like the ac, my dog breathing, my brother walking, etc. I feel like those should be included but I don't really know how to include those and not the stuff that I don't want in it. I'll figure it out, oh well. Yeah, that was all I did having to do with this project today. I fell asleep at about 5:30am, who knew old people breathe so loud when they sleep. I was woken up at 11am to go to a work outing thing at my dad's work. I didn't hear one funny joke that entire function. I went there hungry and got so uncomfortable that I lost my appetite. I'm probably not going to do anything having to do with media tomorrow because I'm going to be spending time with my family. I'm not 100% sure that I'll blog, but we'll see. 

Editing blog but its the bare minimum

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        I didn't end up filming, sadly. The only thing having to do with media and that project that I did today was importing it and putting it in a folder. My grandparents came at about 2pm and I woke up at 11am. My family is very family and family time-oriented, which is reasonable. I wasn't able to really sneak away and do things. So before they got here, I quickly put all the clips I have onto my computer. I hope that I'll be able to do a little bit tomorrow, but that might not happen. My grandmother has stuff planned. She says we have to go to the store to finish getting Christmas gifts for my parents. We also have to go to my father's work because they're having a barbeque thing I guess. I don't particularly enjoy hanging out with middle-aged men who think being discriminatory is funny. I'm going to wear a mask and stay as far away from them as possible, though. It'd be cool if they let me stay home during that to finish my filming, but that won't happen. Anyways, we spent today sitting together. We went to some restaurant, I'll put the picture I took there here. After that, we went to the store and bought the stuff we needed in order to make what we're making for Christmas dinner. That was a fast trip. I'm going to try to at least import the clips into the editing program tomorrow, so then I can say that I did something and so I can feel a little productive. I'm trying my best, I guess that's all that matters?

Inside daytime Filming Blog

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          We filmed today and it was successful.  We started at about 1pm, it all went smoothly besides my brother complaining. We planned on filming all the daytime parts again today, but that didn't exactly work out as planned. We were filming, it took about 2 hours. From the storyboard, it shows that the view shows outside and the window from the outside. I have 2 dogs and I decided to not keep them in the room with my other family members. When I walked out of the house, I heard my dog bark and then a voice from the other side of the yard says "you know your dog is out, right?". Someone who works for my dad opened the fence and didn't tell anyone so I let the dog out into the street. He's a big dog, he's fast as well, so he's hard to catch. After about 15-20 minutes we got the dog inside and then continued for about 20 more minutes until we were done with that one part. Before we got the chance to film the 2nd outside scene, my mom decided that she wanted to take us to a nature park so that's what we did. The park she was talking about ended up being a covid testing place, she didn't want to accidentally end up in a testing line so we found another place. This gives context to the picture of the ducks I posted on my social medias. We had gotten home about an hour later. I looked at my storyboard, and realized there were 2 or 3 shots that I had forgotten to get, so I convinced my brother to do the rest of that today. My grandparents come tomorrow, so it's not guaranteed that I'll film tomorrow but I'll try my best. If I don't film, I'll start the editing process. But, again, I don't know. Anyways, camera, featuring my dog. 

Filming Blog

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          Wowie do I have a story for you. You may or may not remember, but last year we had an issue with our sd card and we couldn't access our footage. It was a trainwreck and very stressful. To be fair, it did work out in the end. Well, that's what happened today. We filmed the first day time scene today, it took about an hour or two. I liked it, it turned out just like i wanted it to. I went to import it onto my computer but it didn't work. I bought a new sd card over the summer so I could start off fresh, so whatever happened, only happened to the clips we had. Somehow, I don't know how, the card was wiped or malfunctioned. It was unfortunate, but what happens happens. I'm not extremely upset, we still have the rest of the week to finish it. Something I also noticed about 20 minutes ago was that I forgot to post on my social medias. Honestly, I don't think that's a very big deal considering the turnout of today's filming. My brother agreed to film again tomorrow, which is good. My main concern is him. I know how I'm feeling and if I'm okay with what I'm doing, but I'm never sure about him. It is what it is. I want to finish everything tomorrow but honestly it doesn't sound 100% realistic. But if that doesn't happen, I want to at least finish as much as possible before my grandparents arrive on Wednesday. I also realize that I forgot to take a picture while filming, heres a picture I took of the camera just now. 

Explanation for not filming Blog

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          Again, unfortunately, I didn't film. Last weekend my brother didn't want to film because he had basketball early the next day. I didn't bother asking this weekend because he had a tournament and I didn't want to stress him out. This week is the first week of our winter break. That's very swag, I'm very excited. I plan to film Monday, Tuesday, and maybe Wednesday. I have my grandparents coming Wednesday, that explains the maybe. I was thinking about posting on my social medias. Like, if I film, how am I going to show what I did on sites like youtube? I figured that each time I film I can record a clip of my brother being weird or something, I don't know. My mom suggested that when I'm done with filming all together, I can edit all the bloopers together, and I might do that because bloopers are funny. I'm also going to focus on the animated titles things. I was busy all week last week with midterms and I didn't get to do it then. I might this week, who knows. I'm going to try my best to get it all done as soon as possible, but it depends. I'm not exactly a motivated person and I need to wait until all the people involved are prepared enough to play their parts. At end of the day, it'll all get done and it'll be okay, that's the hope at least. The overall goal is to get the filming done by before Christmas, which is 100% doable. I talked to my mom about this, I had brought up the point that filming might not take as much time as it did because I'm doing all the technical stuff by myself. I can just go with it without anyone telling me what to change aesthetically and such. Like I can do it right the first time because my opinion is the only one that matters in the time being, y'know?

 

Website blog

 

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          I haven't done much regarding media class in 2 weeks or so. I've been busy with other classes and I haven't gotten the chance to film yet. I decided to sidetrack, and do stuff like figure out how to make animated titles and fix up my website. That's what I did. One of the vector pieces near the top of the homepage was messed up. Somewhere in the making of the website, I deleted the text box that goes with it and I couldn't figure out how to put it back. At the time, I just made a simple text box to put in its place, but that didn't work. When you scroll down the website, the vector pieces fade in and fade out, but the plain text box just stayed there. So when you were looking at just the top of the website, jus the textbox was there. It looked ugly, so I tried to change it. I did end up figuring out how to change it, though. All I had to do was duplicate the text box for the other vector piece to do it. It felt nice to figure it out, the way it was frustrated me. That was that, I edited the page to my liking. After that, I decided that I was going to try to figure out how to make animated titles. The editing program I'm using I guess partners with an app called blender. I haven't figured everything in there out yet, but I will. I do plan on filming this weekend. Saturday night to be exact. It'll be alright, I've planned everything out. My brother has basketball on Sunday, but I need to film right before sunset so that it gets dark quicker. I hope the filming doesn't take long, but who knows honestly. 

What happened over break blog

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          The break wasn't very eventful when it comes to what I did for this class. I did the website, social media, and I found music. That's about all, though. I hoped that I was going to film last weekend or this past weekend. I didn't. I think I had said this in one of the previous blogs, but I have to wait until me, my brother, and my mother are all home and motivated to film. The weekend before the break my brother had basketball games all day both Saturday and Sunday and my mother went with him. Because my brother plays the main character, I couldn't film without him. I can't film anything without him because I play no on-screen part in my film. I've said this before, hopefully, I get the chance to film this weekend. I feel bad for putting it off. Not every time was my fault that it didn't happen, but still. I said on my website it was premiering December 20th or some ridiculous day like that. I might be able to change it, but I'm probably not going to. It'll be cool to see if I can get my unmotivated self to get up and do something before the deadline. For what I did instead of filming, that's pretty easy to tell. I didn't really do anything. I talked to family over the phone and I spent Thanksgiving with my immediate family. I've been extremely tired for like 2 weeks straight its very unfortunate but oh well. Oh, another thing I did over break was going to the doctor after almost 3 years of not going. I was told that I have mild scoliosis and for some reason, I thought that that was hilarious. 

Music Blog

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          Here's my music journey, I guess. So Friday I think it was, I scoured the internet in search of a song to go into my film. It took way longer than I had anticipated. Many factors made it take longer, like me getting sidetracked, me not being able to find one that fits, etc. I've decided that I wanted a kind of eerie or fast-paced audio to go with it, I thought it would be fitting. But then again, I won't know if it's fitting until I actually film the film. Like you know when you play among us and you're the imposter? That sound effect is what I thought of when I was looking for songs. I searched for keywords, like action movie music, thriller movie music, etc. I try my best to look for music that isn't copyrighted and such. As not okay as this sounds, I would rather not email some famous person and have to wait months for a response. I get that in that case you could just find another song, but still. Anyways. I found one on youtube, it was from someone named ESN Productions, the song is 9 minutes long and I saw it as fitting. I'll take a screenshot of the comment they made and I'll put it as the media for this blog post. I haven't done it yet, but even though they said that I wouldn't need permission, I'll probably ask anyway, even if it's not needed for the class or something. So far this is the only thing I've gone with. I might use the one from last year's project, but I don't know. There's a chance that I'll go with another song when the filming and such is over with. Right now I'm just picturing the storyboard with the song over it. It's 9 minutes, which is pretty short considering a lot of the videos under the search "eerie ambiance" are a horrid amount of time, like 10 hours. How can people sit through that? I have no idea. 

Marketing Blog

 
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          This is going to be about my journey with making the websites and the social media accounts, woohoo. Anyways. I had made all the accounts under the same name, except for Facebook. I came up with a fake name because I didn't feel comfortable using my real one. Honestly, Facebook was the only account that I dreaded making. One of the conditions of me making the account was that my mom would be friends with me. That's weird, especially because I'd rather not have to look at passive-aggressive political stuff while trying to post stuff for school. I get that that kind of stuff can be important but still. That's beside the point, though. I made the rest of the accounts and it went well, then came the making of the website. That entire process was a disaster, let me tell you. I found my format off of an examples page, it was originally for another film, whatever. I changed stuff in it to make it more about my film and such. The first time I did it, I had gone onto another tab and went to upload a picture, sometimes when I open the folders from google (like to submit a file or something) my google will crash and close itself. You can imagine how I felt, at that time at least an hour and a half had been wasted. Then I started again, and now I have what I have now. It's not pretty, I haven't checked my grades in a bit but I'm certain that it was one of the 0's. I had finished it before the announcement of the extension was posted, and then the next two days I was swamped with work, it was very unfortunate but oh well. It's a work in progress 100% but I'll finish it or get to the point I need to be within the next few days probably. I ran into a bunch of other issues with the website, too. For example, I couldn't navigate it for the life of me, all the buttons overwhelmed me because I was too far into the making of it that I was scared that a single button push would ruin the entire thing for me. So I wasn't very adventurous, but it's all good. 

Storyboard

 

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          I apologize in advance for my horrid work, I can't draw very well. But overall, you might be able to get the idea. I planned on filming this weekend, but I didn't. I ended up getting swamped with work and that's what I did. I also had some family spend the weekend with us, which was cool. If I'm going to be completely honest, this is one of the hardest assignments I've done. I had zero motivation to do it and it took forever. But I did finish it, so that's cool. I'll tell you about my storyboard process. Here's how it went: at about 9:30 pm on Saturday, It was a full day of spending time with family that I didn't get to bail out of. Since it was a weekend, I got to stay up late and do whatever I needed to do. With time and no motivation, I stayed up until about 3:00 am doing it, I said I wasn't going to sleep until it was finished. I did about half of it while listening to an aggressive piano playlist. I did that and then finished the rest over the course of Sunday. It's currently 8:55 pm, It's cool I got it done when I did because I have other school things to do. That's less cool, but still. It's a stretch, But I might actually film next weekend, or just over Thanksgiving break. I just have to find a time that, my brother, my mother and I are all motivated and in a good mood to work together. I'd say the filming will take at least 2 days, and that's because I have day, night, and morning scenes that I need to shoot. It's all going to be alright. 

Planning blog

 

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          This is my planning blog, I'm going to be discussing the schedule, location, participants, health and safety, props, and costumes. 

          I'm going to have a similar structure as the final project for last year, but not really. I won't be having many participants, I'm going to have my mother play the woman in the grey shirt and I'm going to make my twin brother play the main and the unknown person. I realized that I never gave a name to the main character, I just called them main. The characters name is going to be Lenny and he goes by he/him.  We are going to be filming at my house, I'll provide a picture of it in the end. There won't be many props, but we'll make arrangements. I know for a fact a computer, grocery bags, bedding, mail, and a marker will be there for sure. For costumes, they're not going to be over the top or anything. They're just going to be plain clothes. For Lenny, he'll just wear something simple, casual wear if you will. Unknown will just be wearing dark clothes, and the woman in the grey shirt will be wearing a grey shirt. For scheduling, that's complicated as of right now. I plan to at least try to film this weekend, but I don't know if it'll happen or not. However, it's probably not going to be as chaotic as when I worked with someone I didn't live with. We just have to find a time where we're both motivated and it'll go smoothly. For health and safety, there's not really that much we can do. I'm going to clean up so there's a guarantee that no one trips. Also in the scene where the camera is showing Lennys face on the other side of the glass, I'm going to see if i can put the safety baby gate thing up so no one falls into the pool. 

It's going to be a good time, we're going to be productive and have fun doing it. 

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.

 

          Hello, I hope you're having a good day. 

          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

 

          Hello, I hope you're having a terrific day.

          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?