.MOV Film Festival

You see the title? You're probably wondering; What the heck is a MOV? Is it short for movie? Is it some sort of rare species of iguana in New Brazilland? Is it a type of fruit? Is it another word for MOM? What the heck is it? Well, it basically means movie. Anyway, ours is an animation comedy thing. Our keywords are Comedy, Virtual-world, Creativity, and Challenges. These keywords (I think) connect with the audience. They do so because (for Comedy) everyone likes to laugh right? Right? (Grumpy old man around the corner of my house I am NOT talking about you.) And virtual world, I think all of us get sucked into another reality some time or another. I don't mean literally. Creativity and challenges are kinda intertwined. Using one you can get through the other. (Yeah! Use challenges to conquer creativity!) I don't mean that. You should conquer challenges creatively.

Behind the scenes!

So the overall message. The message that I perceive from the film is to face challenges head-on. Don't try to wiggle away from them. Don't try to escape DESTINY! (Perhaps not that dramatic, but you get the idea.) When there's a challenge, if you don't try to face it, you'll grow up thinking that it's okay, but then when you HAVE to face it, you won't know what to do! You won't have the experience! And when you do face the challenges, it may not be as complicated or bad as you think it is. You may be surprised at what you accomplish if you just TRY! I know, this seems like "Wow. I've heard this a gabazillion times before. Sheesh. UNCREATIVE ALERT!" But it's true! Just try it.

Animation!

The biggest challenge my team faced, no question or contest, was when one of our members decided to leave. We wasted two days trying to convince him to stay, but to no avail. When he left, we ended up one man down, and two days behind, meaning me and Cody needed to pick up the slack. I doubt we ever fully recovered from that, but we did pretty well. And it did take a lot of extra work to catch up and animate good. Is goodly a word? If so, (It's probably not,) We animated goodly, and caught up just in time. Still though, I was under a LOT of stress to finish it on time. Which as you know, (Or perhaps you don't.) isn't very good for anyone. It was hard, especially since when we started FILMING, the project was due in TWO DAYS. And animating takes a while.