2008 Woodie Awards
Film fest displays visually pleasing animation
By Blake Baxendell
Issue date: 4/1/05 Section: Entertainment
Film is being celebrated this month by SRU with the first ever H.M. Warner Film Festival. The film festival is being held in two locations, the first being on campus while the second is off-campus at the Warner Theater in New Castle. The movies submitted for this festival were all short-films, and ranged anywhere from 30 seconds to 15 minutes.
There were a large amount of submissions that the festival crew had to screen and pass the final choices to the judges. Before the movies were narrowed down I had a chance to screen a few of the films myself. For the next few weeks, I will be doing reviews on some of the films I had the luxury to view before the film festival starts.
I found myself sitting in the screening room looking at a wide variety of short films. In this variety, I found three different animations. These animations were all created at Ohio State University.
The first one I came upon was titled "Enclosure 2." The title did not say much, and I was very unsure what it would be about. I popped the movie in, and found that it was an animation using three-dimensional worlds.
There was no speech in it though there were some weird jungle beats. I felt like I was listening to a soothing jukebox that has ocean waves or bird chirping sounds coming out of it.
The animation began in a bedroom. Once it zoomed out you see that the bedroom is underwater. The viewer can then see fish floating around the bedroom. From there, the viewer is taken out of the bedroom.
The animation in this film was really cool, but I would never be able to tell you what it meant or symbolized. I read the synopsis that the director wrote and found out that it was about two different cultures. East and West cultures are adjoining and the film acts as a metaphor. The director for "Enclosure 2" is Eunkyoung Lee. She is a student in the Advanced Computing Center for Art and Design.
Another ACCAD member and student at OSU made a more symbolical short animated film titled "Memory of Hope." It is about a soldier's mother who repeatedly sees her son dying in her dreams because he is gone serving his country.
There were a large amount of submissions that the festival crew had to screen and pass the final choices to the judges. Before the movies were narrowed down I had a chance to screen a few of the films myself. For the next few weeks, I will be doing reviews on some of the films I had the luxury to view before the film festival starts.
I found myself sitting in the screening room looking at a wide variety of short films. In this variety, I found three different animations. These animations were all created at Ohio State University.
The first one I came upon was titled "Enclosure 2." The title did not say much, and I was very unsure what it would be about. I popped the movie in, and found that it was an animation using three-dimensional worlds.
There was no speech in it though there were some weird jungle beats. I felt like I was listening to a soothing jukebox that has ocean waves or bird chirping sounds coming out of it.
The animation began in a bedroom. Once it zoomed out you see that the bedroom is underwater. The viewer can then see fish floating around the bedroom. From there, the viewer is taken out of the bedroom.
The animation in this film was really cool, but I would never be able to tell you what it meant or symbolized. I read the synopsis that the director wrote and found out that it was about two different cultures. East and West cultures are adjoining and the film acts as a metaphor. The director for "Enclosure 2" is Eunkyoung Lee. She is a student in the Advanced Computing Center for Art and Design.
Another ACCAD member and student at OSU made a more symbolical short animated film titled "Memory of Hope." It is about a soldier's mother who repeatedly sees her son dying in her dreams because he is gone serving his country.
