Negotiating Meaning in The Media

Animated Shorts I Watched:

"HA'Aki" http://www.nfb.ca/film/haaki
"I Want a Dog" http://www.nfb.ca/film/i_want_a_dog
* "Nightmare at School" http://www.nfb.ca/film/nightmare_at_school
"Falling in Love Again" http://www.nfb.ca/film/falling-love-again-3d
"Orange" http://www.nfb.ca/film/hothouse_5_orange
"Pearl" http://www.nfb.ca/film/hothouse_5_pearl


Above are six animated short films that I have watched. Some of them I really liked, some of them were okay and some of them I completely didn't understand or bored me to death. First off, my favorite short was "Nightmare at School". This film was about a first day at high school for a young boy. It went through a lot of parts where it made it seem like high school is a big place and going into it as the youngest person there, was scary. In the end, he was dreaming and woke up to find his friends waiting for him to get going. In my opinion the message was, it's not as bad as you think and your always gonna have friends going into it, or make some at school because it's a friendly place. On a second note, two films that I didn't like or understand were "HA'Aki" and "I Want a Dog". The only reason I didn't like "I Want a Dog" was because it was an eleven minute film and I think I am one of those people that likes a short and sweet film that I understand and can get something out of it. In the end, all films were very well done but some didn't appeal to me. If something doesn't grab my attention within the first minute, I lose interest. This is also why I am a very picky person, for example, I can't read books because I just can't find any that bring me in and make me NOT wanna put it down.