Shelved

Now I also chose to look at this one with this module because I haven't so far looked at any which actually use Motion Capture and combine 3D CG animation with live footage. A combination of 11 Media Design School students from Auckland and only one day of shooting, I really like the fact in the making of video you can see the robot rigs and how they move and how cleanly it's been put onto the footage, it's really good for student work.



What I like most about the short is the narrative. Everyone who is down to earth has had a crap job that hate, even if it's been part time, where there's been some losers working but there a laugh and you put up with them. It just brings back so many memories and you can really relate to these characters, because even at work you didn't like them but you wouldn't want them to be replaced because seriously what else would they do with their life!? I just really enjoyed the dark humour of the plot and I think this short has an intellectuality to it that isn't that complex but makes you feel better about your life watching it which makes the narrative really powerful.

If there is one improvement I would of wanted to make if I had been making it, is that of the supporting robots. I feel like there performance isn't as strong as the two lead parts and after seeing the making of video you can see how into it the actors were getting and I felt the rigging of those robots made it very hard to show emotion. I feel like if they'd of found away to show a bit more emotion through these it would of made the whole story stronger because it would of been more powerful the fact that all the robots are being replaced but actually they aren't that bad. But that's just my personal opinion, it's still a very good very strong short.