Blog Post #3- Movie Clip

My video, Das Rad, or The Wheel in English, shows the development of the world from a rocks perspective. Winner of the best short animated file, this German video has been translated and accepted to be part of the Animation Show 3. In this video, we see how a couple of "rock people" live life and how they view the development of the world. Some interesting points that I noticed from this video were the materials that the animators used to create the rocks. i can't tell if this film was made by advanced claymation, or if it was all created by digital animation, or even if they actually used real rocks. that shows how believable the animation was for the video. The super speed of the movie is very important to the plot because I believe that it symbolizes how quickly time moves for the rocks because of how long a rock lives. a day to us, feels like a second to them. throughout the clip, we see small villages appearing in the background while the rocks go about living like they always had. eventually, one of the rocks starts playing with a circular rock that he had found and we can see that he starts to realize the power of a wheel. at this point, an early caveman comes and sees the circular rock that the rockman had been playing with. from this point, man creates the wheel and once the wheel is created, the development of the land around the rock men is sped up twice as much. we see a road appear, and soon the villages grow larger and larger. At one point in the video, the speed of the development becomes so extreme that the rocks don't know what to do. this clip is very symbolic because it shows the progression of man and how it's just been getting faster and faster and never slowing down. Another ironic point was the billboard that was put up by the rock men that said built to last and eventually just broke down. By that, the creator is showing that he believes nothing is "built to last" As the development went on, the sky grew darker and everything became much more polluted until everything just stopped. I believe that the creator of this movie was trying to get a point across of how much our world has changed but I don't think the creator is quite a fan of how much we've developed lately. He makes a statement about what he thinks will happen in the future about how mankind will be the end of mankind. After all this development, everything is just swept away and everything starts over again as new. The movie tends to have a negative point at the end that makes you think. To me, that's what makes a good video/essay. It has to make you think deeper about a part of your life or some experience you've had.