Film Review #24

Today I saw a trailer for a upcoming short film called A Day In The Life Of A Bathroom Mirror. The trailer was about half a minute, but it definitely did its job of interesting me in the film. The film is about a bathroom mirror that is in love with the girl who's bathroom he lives in. The story seems really interesting and I'm excited to see the full film. One of the things I really liked about the trailer were all of the mirror shots. The filmmakers were able to get shots of the bathroom mirror in varying angles and conditions which displays their skill while connecting the audience to what I presume is the protagonist. The audio in the trailer was nice and smooth which is great considering all or most of the mirror's thoughts and words will be narrated. I think this is a really cool concept for a film and I'm curious about the story. 

Watch it here: 

https://vimeo.com/groups/shortfilms/videos/87882523

Film Review #23

Last week I watched a film called Pathology. I hadn't realized it prior to my choosing to watch the film, but this was the second time I had seen it. Pathology is about a group of pathologists that create an underground club. In the club, the participating pathologists play a continuous game to see which one of them can commit the perfect murder. Each night, they rotate who's turn it is to commit the murder. After the murder is committed, the corpse is brought in for diagnosis/examination. If the other pathologists are able to figure out how the victim was murdered, the pathologist that committed the murder loses. The game ends when someone is able to win by committing the perfect murder. The beginning of this film is absolutely disgusting, maybe to symbolize the disgusting nature of the players' minds. Majority, if not all of the shots in this film are either very dark or desaturated. However, the desaturated shots are less desaturated and more so just display the shot's color drowned out by the florescent lights used in the hospital. The character development is rather shallow, but the plot contains interesting elements. I think the filmmakers were headed in the right direction with this one, but they could have expanded on the story and spent a few more hours in the editing process to really take Pathology to the next level. Overall, its was an alright film and I'd recommend it to anyone with a strong stomach.

Film Review #22

Today I watched an adorable, somewhat romantic (because it's valentines day) short film called The Chicken or the Egg. It's an animated short about a pig that has an unhealthy obsession with eggs--eating them, decorating his house with them, you name it. One day in a diner while devouring over 20 plates of eggs, a sexy chicken lady walks in and catches the pigs attention. He tries to flirt with her, but she sees that he's ordered eggs and is turned off. The pig gives her a flower and they hit it off. Out of sensitivity for his "lady friend" the pig stops eating eggs and starts going crazy. More stuff happens, but there is no point to life if films are spoiled. It was a weirdly cute short film and it seemed to contain a few social taboos and that was pretty cool to see in an animated short that was unaffiliated with Seth McFarlane. I would reccomend checking it out.

Film Review #21

This week I watched a short film on vimeo called Blinky. The film is set in a world wear robotics are completely normal and owning a service robot is pretty standard. It is a short film about a 13ish year old boy that sees a commercial for a friendly service robot on TV called Blinky. The boy asks his parents to buy Blinky for Christmas and they do. Blinky is a really cool short film and its plot shall not be spoiled so I recommend watching it. Blinky, the robot, was CG and done really well. There were a few scenes where he stood outside in the rain and both he and the CG water looked very smooth and natural. The poster of the film wrote in the bio that he'd spent 9 months working on the film's visual effects and it was well worth it because they are amazing. I totally recommend watching Blinky because it is 13 minutes of awesomeness.


Watch  it here:
https://vimeo.com/21216091