Review Time: Animated Shorts

Hello everybody! Welcome to those who're new to the blog and welcome back to those who have. Once again, I'm here with Review Time and I'll be going over animated shorts doing... music related things I guess. Though this is something different from Review Time, it's mostly not me that's been given these things to review. I'd say it's merely a part of a school project. Anyway, I've been given the option to pick three out of four animated shorts to review about. These titles of the animated shorts I've been given are called An Object at Rest, Lost Property, Rew Day, and Lava. The animated shorts I will be doing is An Object at Rest, Lost Property, and Lava because after seeing Rew Day, I didn't find it to be review worthy.

First we'll be starting off with An Object at Rest. In this animation, it takes the viewer along the evolution of a mountain from the prehistoric times to the days where it was launched to the moon and it's life cycle would go on as a mountain again. With the music, first it's calm and slow but as the character (who'd be the mountain) goes through it's cycle the music gets faster and becomes western style then jazzy. We can at least know that when it changes from western to jazz it tell us time has shifted and it's a sooner era than before. When it ends that's when it's the same music from the beginning and if the short were to continue more then it'd probably go through the same process over and over again. With how the music incorporated with the short, I'd say it knows how to make things more exciting as the rock moves on through history while also allowing some music to show the rock's feelings. Now, I know what you may think. I'm starting to talk about rocks now? Have I gone insane or what? No I haven't, I'm just saying what literally happened from the short that also solves a few questions. When it comes to a character's theme of instrument I would probably go with something that's peaceful and full of beauty instead of something loud. Instruments that are meant to be played softly such as a flute, violin, and other instruments could represent the character's feelings with a mixture of music making country or jazz genres meaning the character going through the many settings the area around it may offer.
When I think about creativity coming from other people's work I'd sometimes think it can be considered something talented and others I think not. I really depends on how the creator would have made everything come into view, in not only the design of the animation but also the ideas of character development, music, setting, plot and the climax. With this animation, I do enjoy it for how it makes us think of what even the tiniest of things go through in daily life. Telling by how this would've been made I would've guessed it took the creator more than six months to think, create and present the animation but what I can say is it's much harder to think about what could've given the creator the inspiration to make something like this. Maybe he was going through sort of the same process as the character? Maybe he was thinking about certain things and somehow that came up. Everyone gets their inspiration somewhere, you just don't where.

Next up we'll do Lost Property. This animated short takes the viewer to a place that lost items go to and one customer, which happens to be an elderly woman, is wanting to find lost objects but the owner isn't able to find it. In the end, it turns out they were items from the owner's past that were lost and the lady was trying to find them to bring back his memory of them together. This animation's music goes along with a mixture of ominous and waltz music which could demonstrate the determination to find whatever was lost. But in the end it calms down into a sort of music used in a reunion setting as the setting changes into a care home for the elderly who experience memory loss and are unable to take care of themselves. With the characters, finding a specific instrument that represents the ways they feel is much harder to identify because it's mixed. The only character that gets its own instrumental sound would be the mocking bird from the clock which would probably be some type of woodwind instrument.
With creativity it's all the same in a way, just that its different when they get it from a certain inspiration and add a few changes. With the creator, my guess would be that he might've had that happen with a family member and he tried to refresh their memory through the things he gave to them but came to no avail till finding the one thing that sparked the memory. Whatever the meaning, that's an example.

Now finally we have Lava. This animated short takes on the perspective of a volcanic island out in the middle of sea somewhere in the world. As the song progresses we learn that the island wishes for company of any kind since it's all on its own. In the end, a female volcano rises and the original joins her for however long they'll be together. This animation's music goes along the tropical range with its primary instrument supposedly being a ukulele. Aside from this the song is rather catchy and is a song that can easily be sung along to. No matter what in the short, the song seems to repeat and continue until the end with the only difference would probably be the dynamics and sound quality. And for the finale, the creativity for this short I find to be okay in a way. With this one, like the first short mentioned it takes you to a perspective for objects you normally wouldn't consider an important thing and makes you have feelings for them. Once again, I can't explain what the creator would've been thinking about when making this other than maybe relating the short on a life experience they must've went through.

That's all I have for my animation short review. If you enjoyed this then feel free to suggest any topics in the comments below or maybe something you would like to see in future updates in this blog. Anyway, I'm Taylor, and I'll see you in the next future post.