Boredom Video

1. My film shows some activities that a person might do when he/she is bored.
2. Boredom
3. I did a decent job of representing the mood because the events are easily relatable.
4. I did not do anything special for the sound but the quietness and dullness of the sound helps portray the feeling of boredom.
5. I could have spent less time on walking around.
6. I think that some of the scenes have some comical elements.

Iron Man Movie Review

        Over the weekend, I saw Iron Man for another time and decided that it was an interesting film to write a review on. This movie is about a man named Tony Stark who is the CEO of a weapons manufacturing company that dominates in the advancement of weaponization. Tony is captured by a group of terrorists and is forced to create a "Jericho missile" which is one of the most recent and potent creations of Stark Industry. He secretly builds a suit of armor that he uses to break out of the terrorist encampment and make it back to his house. He then begins to develop the iron man suit and enhance its original design. News of the suit reaches one of his associates Obadiah Stane who wishes to take over the company. It turns out that Obadiah was the person who hired the terrorists to capture and kill Tony Stark and goes on to create a copy  of his original suit and battles Tony in his Iron Man suit at the very end. Tony comes away victorious and announces to the media that he is Iron Man.
        The plot line provides a very unique sequence of events but is only slightly more important than the character development. The character of Tony Stark and the life he leads are very interesting and provide almost as much importance as the story line. The story being about high-tech weapons and electronics added to make it a memorable film. The variety of far shots and close shots caused the film to feel more real and made the viewer feel immersed in the movie. The one scene where Pepper Potts and some others go to arrest Obadiah presents the feeling of being scared by providing a dark atmosphere that allows Obadiah to scare the audience by appearing out of the darkness. Overall, I feel that the film was incredibly well created and there is nothing to large that took away from the experience.

"Tokyo/Glow" Review

1. This short film showing the streets of tokyo and takes the sped up world and combines it with a glowing man who is slowed down into regular speed. There is no real plot line but it just shows the rushing lights combined with this man walking around Tokyo.
2. Since there was no real plot line, the character of the glowing man was more significant because of how different he was compared to the others surrounding him as he made his way through the city.
3. The two speeds of the movie, the normal-paced man and the sped up city, gave the short film an interesting way of viewing a film.

"Mr. Stache" Review

1. This short film was about a man who decided to grow a mustache and the result of him growing it. The film is narrated by a woman's voice. The movie ends with the man meeting a woman who grew her own mustache and ended up having a child.
2. The plot was more memorable in this short film because the characters didn't actually talk in their own voices and the plot was very laughable and not serious.
3. I took away that when a movie is narrated by one person it is actually pretty enjoyable and more clear.

"Meltdown" Review

1. The film was about a group of foods that work together and find a way to stop the refrigerator from being too cold. A couple of the foods are "lost" along the way but eventually the spaghetti is able to turn up the temperature and gets rid of the ice.

2. The characters were more memorable because of the ridiculousness of having food talking and taking action. 

3. The film was pretty odd to me and it was too strange for my liking. The short film had humorous points but was not able to be taken seriously because of the characters or the plot line.

"Miracle Fish" Questions

"Miracle Fish", written, directed, and edited by Luke Doolan, and produced by Drew Bailey, was a short film that took place at a school with many young children. This boy gets dropped off at school on his birthday and is harassed by a couple of bullies. His parents gave him a small fish that is supposed to tell the kind of feelings that the holder has. When the child holds the fish, it reads that he is supposed to be compassionate. He becomes upset after the bullies mock him for being poor and he runs away and wishes to be alone. He tries to tell the nurse that he wants to go into the sick bay but he is unable to get her attention so he goes in there by himself and goes to sleep. When he wakes up, the school is empty and he is able to do whatever he feels like. He later encounters a shooter who has cleared out the school and tries to help him out by showing compassion toward him and his situation. He gives the man the miracle fish and it stays still, indicating that he is dead. A red dot of a sniper shows up on the shooters body and then dramatically takes him out. The overall mood changes from being sad to being happy for being alone to ending very dramatically. The dialogue in the movie sets the mood and gives some background to the story. The cinematography adds to a little bit of suspense in the short film. The best scene was the end where the shooter is dramatically killed and completely catches the viewers unaware. The film was pretty good, but once again it was not quite my style. It was very well created and does a good job in catching the viewers unaware and spooks them.

"The Door" Questions

The movie "The Door", directed by Juanita Wilson and produced by James Flynn, is a short film based around the historical event of Chernobyl. The movie focuses on one family in particular that is comprised of a mother, father, and daughter. The film starts out with the father breaking into their old abandoned apartment in order to steal a door. He encounters a close call and is almost caught by an authoritative figure taking the door from the deserted compound. He takes the door to his new dwelling place and continues to go through his day by day routine. He shortly figures out that his daughter has been affected by the radiation from the Chernobyl disaster. The motion picture ends when with the daughter dying and a group of individuals, including the family, carrying her body on the door. The overall mood of the film was primarily sad and depressing. There is very little dialogue which allows the viewers to interpret it more openly. The way the movie is shot makes it more sorrowful and bleak. The best scene in the short film was the beginning where the father is "stealing" the door from his own apartment. The film was alright but it wasn't exactly my style because it was too sad and depressing, other than that I thought it was well made and conveys a very clear sad emotion.