Sci-Fi Short Film "Starian" | DUST
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Two young women explore an alien planet, with the intention of opening a mysterious canister that caused a long-ago disaster.
"Starian" by Eric Zaragoza
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This is probably the most common mistake when using Special Effects: The background noise during the Commanding Officer's cuts were MUCH TOO HIGH. Remember, effects are used to enhance the story, not the other way around. If the viewer can't hear the dialog then the story is lost.
Another mistake is in their inconsistency with the backdrop. At 0:07 the sky is full of asteroids, at 2:43 they are all gone.
@@michaelzahnle5649 and in 4:00 there is no Gas Giant altogether
Thank God, I thought it was just me (I'm not a native English speaker. and while watching this I was thinking "are my listening abilities that bad after so many years studying English?")
Agreed, couldn't hear a word over the effects. Did the film not get proof watched or...?
Seems to be a common thread somehow as I am constantly frustrated with the same scenario watching even just television. The sound engineers should practice playback on the format for which the content is created for. Just me.....
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Please! The music should not drown out the dialogue
Really ur channel so much entertaining with space concept
The Audio was a mess.
Healthy yes
Safe no
Love your attitude DUST...Sincerely:)subbed!
Posing a question here: As soon as they crossed over some rocks, the heavens were in full view and they were in awe. But, is that realistic? Wouldn't they have been able to look up before they crossed the small ridge of rocks and and see exactly the same view? Considering the size of the planets up in the sky, could they really be hidden until they crossed over the rocks?
Also, why do stranded female astronauts always have freshly-plucked eyebrows that are on fleek?
I couldn't concentrate on anything because of that chick's eyebrows. They were so far apart! Holy shit...
Fleek? Who talks like that? lol.
@@minamayes1529 brow job gone wrong lol
I doubt that the planets so near together would exist without dismantling each other (Roche-Limit). You can see a Gasgiant and a pretty big terrestrial planet in the sky. So I would say at least the two terrestrial Planets (the one with the girls and the one in the sky) would harm each other.
Also, the catastrophe was 10 years ago (2045 on the planet, 2035 on the ship) so they should have seen this sky already.
Also, did you guys see the time stamp in 2:58? It says GMT+: 10:23:71:79. I didn´t know that a minute could have more than 60 seconds.
@@derorje2035 Good eye
There really is a limit to how much shaky, sparky, alarmy, shouty, panicky footage a person can take.
I had trouble connecting the dots: (1) first contact destroys human vessel, (2) mysterious canister, (3) why the 2 survivors had to walk to flat ground.
@PikPobedy blah blah blah .... fucking sky burials. You've ruined this whole experience for me. Congratulations!
Good thing there's no water, the tides would be crazy with that giant planet next door.
We do actually see water partway through (in the shot where the light leaves the planet), and it wouldn't surprise me if those rock formations came from agitated high water levels in the past.
Since the mass of all of the objects shown, is not known, no assumptions can be made as to their gravitational effects. Their size can also be called into question. That assumed gas giant, could be much smaller than our moon, just much closer. It could be as light as a helium balloon, and therefore have little gravitational force. Anyway, without knowing their mass, size, and distance, that type of neighborhood is totally plausible...
Sparklemuffin the Sailboat which makes time tick faster?
@@Quickened1 All gas planets are giants with high masses and strong gravitational pulls. If they weren't massive, they wouldn't be able to hold onto the gaseous outer-layers, and thus wouldn't be gas giants.
Even if there were exceptions, we can go into a movie without assuming that this movie is portraying a small exception to what is the most common.
Also, you can see different planets. In the sky is a Gas Giant but when we see the planets from outer space (for example 3:57) there are three terrestrial bodies pretty near each other.
I would say no matter what, they would dismantle each other because they are too near each other (Roche-Limit).
skip to the end where nothing happens too.
LOL
@PikPobedy Oooohh! I totally didn't get it! What was the deal with all the "last log" stuff, then? Didn't seem to be connected.
That’s why I checked the comments, thanks
Incomprehensible, like all DUST videos.
@PikPobedy from what I could make out, the apprehensive girl on the planet was "Aurora" and had a name tag that said "A. Jones". The woman in the ship's logs showed a name to the side with the other data as "Jones, Samantha". I would infer that the girl on the planet WAS her actual daughter. Not sure about the other girl, though. Also of note, opening sequence indicated year 2045 and the ship's log data on the side had a timestamp of 2035, so 10yrs had passed.
Poor sound quality, lack of plot, too loose of an ending to even contemplate and discuss. Just too convoluted. Sorry I feel this one was a mess.
What was there to be convoluted? It was just an empty promise!
In some ways it seems like a trailer, but it fails to draw me in or convince me to want to see the whole movie. If there is one. It's the kind of plot and dialog that seems clever when you're stoned, but you'll wonder what you were trying to do when you sober up.
I'm guessing it was either no boom mic and/or no lavalier mics to blame for the poor audio levels, any time they were looking away or a distance from the camera the dialog became really hard to hear. The score drowning it out (and the jump cuts to the loud exploding ship) didn't help much either.
Sadly, this is common with these shorts, especially the lower budget ones.
I teach myself not to expect much from sci-fi short movies. I mainly watch them for the visuals and story. Audio is the least of my concerns.
You get what you pay for friend.
Yes. The audio mixing in many current indie films seems to be that way. I've been a professional video producer for over 25 years. The most important part of video is... audio.
Editing also includes sound mixing and sound editing... which is really not the case with all those new people who claim they are film editors. Sound editing and sound quality should be at the same level as video/film. So if you are doing HD video, then you need boom operator, you need a separate sound recording system, and bring all that together in the post-production.
Well, they can't all be good. Not sure what was worse, the acting or the writing.
the acting.. and the writing
Seriously, the acting was fine. Consider they were as in the dark as we are about what the f-ing story was supposed to be. Apparently the director was too busy at craft services to check that out and give then some clue.
Writing for sure. I think with better mic's and a little bit more story to their characters (sometimes you gotta know your character to play a lot better) then the acting would be pretty solid
Panic girl was convincing, cute couple with the party popper too.
Couldnt understant what they were saying so I cant judge the script
but I blame the mic.
The uniforms.
I contributed subtitles to the video and therefore listened very carefully to every line. I think the concept is, a science research vessel encountered a catastrophic problem; the daughter of the science officer and one other child were put into cryogenic storage in the hopes they might survive. The two children survived the catastrophe and ten years later, on a planet, felt there was value in activating two canisters they had possession of. For reason unexplained, the young women needed to hike to a particular location where/when darkness was present, before setting off the canister. They didn't find it easy but they resolved with teamwork to release the contents. The contents shot away from the planet and were visible to them as a star. It is the young woman's birthday. She feels the star is hers to name. The dialogue suggests that the daughter is fulfilling a wish of her mother, that she is continuing the advancement of scientific knowledge in some way ...?
Although I looked hard for some meaning, I really have to conclude that this film is missing good direction. The actors weren't coached very well for diction, or continuity of character. It isn't easy to tell whether they feel they are accomplishing something of gravity, or just playing around with and destroying the various leftover artifacts from the science experiments.
I think the joke is: the mother gave her life in the hope her daughter would further scientific knowledge. Instead, the kids survived to simply play around with the stuff without any concept of what they were doing.
My subtitles were never accepted. That's the last time I will make that mistake.
@@douglasheld Thanks for synopsis, interesting that a short piece based on poorly connected CGI visuals, would prefer empty incoherence to subtitles!
As much as l'm irritated by lippy and caked mascara on medieval peasants,l'm also ticked off the incongruity of plucked eyebrows and symmetrical haircut in cryosleep or wherever they abruptly emerged from. It's like the 4th wall doesn't matter any more, as it's all one long trippy dream sequence or transient psychosis instead.
If this film had product placement it would be a typical Advert, spendings all used up on CGl and close fitting costumes.
Story seems to be the hardest word.
I really wanted that story line. Thank you. Great acting. Just needed to have more short clips between each reel to explain it along. But overall really good.
Putting in a real plot/story next time would be a really good idea for a short.
You broke my Stupid-O-Meter!
Reasonable effort I suppose. But the sound editing was very badly out of balance: Background noise/music washed out the primary dialogue. If your audience can't hear what your characters are saying well enough to understand it, then it won't matter how clever you think your CGI FX are. "Looking cool" is not enough to make a good story.
I had to use headphones and I still had a hard time following it.
Doesn't matter when the things they're saying are so disconnected, unnatural and random. "Happy Birthday A". WTF. So a science vessel with 'secrets' was carrying two kids in Cyro for 'reasons' who are the only survivors. Who then decide randomly to open a weird heavy piece of metal that they know killed their parents because one of their mothers told them to not be afraid of the 'black oceans' of space. Said container has a 'star' in it (what? why? hunh?), and we're left with two teenagers who are just going to die on a rock alone, but it's all good because...again, reasons (which are never explained, implied or probably even considered by the writer). Also them staring up at the sky in disbelief repeatedly throughout, while they've been seeing the same view they've had for the last five years...makes zero sense. Good production value across the board, wasted utterly.
This is what I was thinking. I kept turning up the volume to try and make out what they were saying only to immediately have my ears blown out by the soundFX and music. Terrible audio balance. And I have to agree with TrackZero about what I could hear was completely meaningless. There was no context for anything they were saying and their reactions to their environment were that of someone that was only seeing this sky for the first time. Then there is the completely implausible skybox to begin with. It actually really irks me when they include scenes like that for an alien planet because if there were that many planets / moons close enough to be seen at that magnitude, they would absolutely destroy each other by tidal forces. This was just terrible.
@@DeekerJones No subtitles either!
I can't explain but I think my phone deleted some important scenes.
Theres eight minutes i'll never get back.
Synopsis :
Two girls wanted to be the life of the party. Two girls show up with pony-keg. Turns out the pony-keg was the Star of the party. Have fun, stay safe, and always use a designated driver. ☺
Designated driver on a deserted planet that's some damn good beer...
Better plot than what I actually just watched.
They were children when the "catastrophe" occurred. Where did the personalized uniforms come from? It would have been nice to see whatever they were living in.
This really needs captions due to the poor sound quality. Please consider having captions for all your films because many of them seem to suffer from the same problem.
Two girls on LSD in a lava field think their tent is fireworks
I see Dust, i click
I see Dust, I clean
I see dust i beat the maid
I see dust I dream of illegal aliens
I see dust, I put on my last N95.
Interesting. Just a couple of questions. 1: How can so many huge planets exist so near each other? Is gravity not a factor? 2: Why would two girls raised in isolation, with only each other and some old tapes, have different accents? But other than that, a fun little short.
The view we see there is not absolutely impossible (though highly unlikely, and requiring a rare alignment as well). The world they were on would likely be a moon of a Jupiter-type gas giant. If you saw Jupiter form one of its moons it would be very large in the Sky. The view of two other planets/moons seeming on top of each other could be the result of the closer one actually being much much closer (and therefore much smaller) than it appears. Likely those would have to be "moons the the moon we are on"(or vice-versa) for the visual configuration we see which also includes the gas giant.
Clearly though, the image was chosen for its "artistic" value not its scientific realism.
@@GreylanderTV Certainly. I hadn't thought of the "closer, bigger" point. My primary problem was with a shot partway through that shows a gas giant near the sunset, followed closely by a shot that shows a gas giant of similar size to the right. Unless those planets somehow orbited each other as well as their star, there would be no way they could exist so close at the same time.
All valid points. This is exactly why we’re convinced that we have the best fans: you dig deep, ask questions, and never blindly consume. Stay smart and safe everyone!
@@watchdust Hey guys! Thank you!
@@cthulhufhtagn2483 ...Since the mass of all of the objects shown, is not known, no assumptions can be made as to their gravitational effects. Their size can also be called into question. That assumed gas giant, could be much smaller than our moon, just much closer. It could be as light as a helium balloon, and therefore have little gravitational force. Anyway, without knowing their mass, size, and distance, that type of neighborhood is totally plausible...
I can’t offer anything that everyone else hasn’t commented on. A really good location, and nice visuals. I appreciate the effort put into it.
Whole lotta useless information in a broadcast from a ship in crisis. “This may or may not be my last transmission.” SMH
However the opening landscape is brilliant location finding - very alien looking.
When the drone footage is the most memorable part of the show...
The one with the black "pixey cut" is really cute!😍
marta okulicz FYI ;)
@Jason C Seeing as her FB page has pictures of her pregnant, probably not.
@@borisjohnson1944 what's her fb page?
Yeah, compared to the chick with "oceans apart" EYEBROWS! Holy hell...
In my professional opinion as a long-time admirer of the female form, I can safely say that they're BOTH cute!
No plot,
No connection between events,
Unscientific,
Anti-climatic,
Disappointing,
Bad acting,
Not Dust quality.
I've watched many Dust movies and the level of quality I've seen doesn't impress me.
Really, the beginning of an idea. Not actually script-worthy as it is.
What is the Dust quality? They're just a presenter a host of of Creator's content.
Yeah, well sure, but other than THAT...
And music that's typically louder than the dialogue.
Geez, Why can´t I escape from the weird sensation that I just watched episode 4 of a 10-episode miniseries that I never heard or read about?
OK, what happened?
There was some running, some dialog, and some other things.
Timbo I died a little bit watching this!!! Thats what happened!!!
thank you DUST for being there..April 8 2020
they released a baby star near a cluster of planets that can sustain life. IE a solar system with a new star
A new star in a planetary system with a massive enough body to have the others orbit it would just fuck it up and certainly not foster the emergence of life.
There's already a star in the vicinity given the fact that the planet they're on isn't in complete darkness, and the light being reflected off the nearby planets.
You guys do know this is fiction, not reality?
@@sneakersheik2418 I think they're questioning the interpretation more than the film; the interpretation just doesn't jibe with what information we're given both in the story and in actual science.
@@sneakersheik2418 Who said a work of fiction can't be questioned? Isn't one of the goals of scifi to get people to think rather than just accept?
I am an actor and filmmaker. I respect that these filmmakers were passionate enough to make a short story. The location was pretty cool! If I could make some suggestions.
1. Get some more experienced actors in your piece. The people that were in it were fine, but felt more like cosplay people who were asked to be in a short film. I don't know the full details of your casting process, but it felt the the actors just showed up with no preparation. It could also be that they are just really young and are still learning. No hate! Just being honest.
2. Get someone to edit and craft the story into a more lean piece.
3. Going back and forth between a recording and the story proper is a good technique, but maybe even subtitles for the commanding officer's lines if the chaos in the background drowns out her dialogue. Unless not hearing what she had to say was the point, then bravo.
4. Keep doing what you are doing and use every project as a learning experience.
Otherwise, it's good to see you went out and tried. Keep it up!
How incredibly patronising. "The Iron Detective" - pretentious? Moi?
At least they were able to redo their makeup after the crash.
🤣🤣🤣👍
Yes, they wear spacial makeup 😁
It's the future, it's automated...
Pp Ss
It’s only 45 years in the future.
This needed to be about 10 minutes longer. I feel as though we just saw the foundation of what the short was going to be about...like did they release the entity that the mom discovered?...maybe instead of jumping in time, it could’ve been more linear. I.e - after the death of her mom we see her clicking off the message, as the entity that caused her death is with her. The daughter is trying to honor her mom by saving the very thing that caused her death. Or we see that was the message her dad finally had the strength to show her thus giving her life purpose.
The premise was solid execution was solid, i think the biggest weakness was the length. We needed more to understand how they came to be in possession of something so powerful that it could make a star. I do believe that the answer is somewhere in the exposition of the mom before the personal message to her daughter and i do believe that that powerful “star” is or was that entity that inadvertently caused the mom’s death. But instead of “telling “ the audience, we needed to “see” it.
I thought they were sending up a flare to be rescued until ... A star? Say what?
Walking in the desert without food and water but carrying a huge flare gun. Smart.
Basically an old fashioned Old Time party popper.
You take hold of each end and give it a pull and it goes bang
The music is so much louder than the dialogue, can't hear anything. The audio is all around quite bad.
I'm pleased to discover it wasn't just me who thought the sound was dreadful.
@@klackon1 Nope, me too. I couldn't understand 90% of the dialogue.
Ditto.
agree dialog sound was bad
@@RPRosen-ki2fk 99% unintelligible for me. I caught a few words as the canister was about to be opened.
The proximity of the huge planet would cause quakes and volcanic activity on the planet they were on. If the two planets had similar mass they would be ripping each other apart.
Since the mass of all of the objects shown, is not known, no assumptions can be made as to their gravitational effects. Their size can also be called into question. That assumed gas giant, could be much smaller than our moon, just much closer. It could be as light as a helium balloon, and therefore have little gravitational force. Anyway, without knowing their mass, size, and distance, that type of neighborhood is totally plausible...
We're all made of starDUST!
It looks like it could have been filmed in the Bisti Badlands near me....
Thank You DUST!
One more nit to pick: Samantha's ship reaches an extrasolar planet (Malloria) in the next fifteen years? Highly unlikely.
Unless that really is Jupiter, as it appears, and there's a planet we've never noticed near it. 😂
Also highly unlikely.
My mom always told me if you have nothing nice to say, say nothing... Nothing.
Sci-fi short - comments by Jan
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Starian by Eric Zaragoza
Plot: two teenage girls surviving after accident on a planet making their own star? Or something??
Negatives: 1) sound - noise > information: majority of the girls talk and almost all of the mother is very hard to understand, while majority of the storytelling important facts are presented by talk; 2) I know it is not always important, but here I missed some background info: how the girls survived on the planet; 3) some illogical or unclear things: why there are walking from somewhere to somewhere else, when they could do it in the first place, why the sky views are differing between scenes so much; the girls were in perfect state - it keeps raising questions about their survival; 4) rewatching helps to better grasp some details of storytelling - e.g. the year of the mother recording video - would be nice to have a chance to find it for the first time, but I was focused just on trying to figure out what she was saying…
Positives: 1) music; 2) visuals - both real (landscape I suppose) and CGI
Personal note: What can I say, I like short haired women
Summary: Interesting idea, but realization has some flaws which ruin the potential of good enjoyment
Loved the uniforms they were wearing, great work there. Agreed with others that the plot was missing a bite, something to snag onto. I was kind of thinking they were in the pods still and having a shared dream of exploring the universe together, and the final cut was going to cut to them in their pods, damaged together in space or something. Which would explain why the visuals weren't making the most sense as well as they seemed to just be off exploring for no reason.
THAT would actually have been a cool ending. And at least it would have made a little bit of sense, I guess.
The girl in short hair is so atractive and she have beautiful eyes
has
Great job on this. Loved the visuals and was intrigued to see what destroyed the ship. Really want more. To all the critics, this is a short film; it's in the message. Would they be able to see the view the planets before the rocks? sure but maybe the first girl was too upset to appreciate it until that point. Could a budget get three actresses with the same accent since they are all related? Sure but then you wouldn't have the diverse acting styles between them. I thought the acting was great they felt like two young sisters completely different in their priorities.
Funny enough, most Sci-Fi movies take place in a near future, this one happens in 2045 . I don't even think we'll reach Mars in 2045 so why mention foreign planetary systems ?
Love this YT channel !
Greetings from Switzerland.
As others have suggested, there certainly are improvements that could be made, but I gotta say, I liked the uniforms, I loved the skyscape (that is the stuff that dreams are made of!), and the location was awesome. I am always in utter awe at the amount of work and planning that has to go into even a short production...
This didn't even feel like an partial story, or a trailer for a longer film. Just a jumble of incoherent sci-fi visuals. Pretty but pointless.
When I first saw the sky view, I thought they were on a habitable moon of a gas giant (ala Avatar), but the info in the lower left said a planet (most people who watched Avatar didn't realize they were on a moon). If it is a planet, in the normal way we define a planet, there were way too many other planets way too close. Therefore, they must have been on a large moon orbiting a gas giant.
At least the strawberry blonde looked good in that suit. LOL
Awesome movie, the canisters were celestial creator modules. The first ones created planets that the two women released into the sky at this part of the planet. The last one was special because in addition to creating the energy source of a star it also had the artificial intelligence it downloaded from the spaceship's computers which unfortunately caused the crash. This last canister ensured a new human colony will have guidance and will thrive.
Those bad lands look like straight out of the movie Galaxy Quest....quick look around see if you can fashion some sort of rudamentary lathe! LOL Nice production BTW!! Thanks for sharing!! :-D
Seth Eden betcha the Gorignak somewhere there...
My wife says that those two ladies at the being walking with those black and gray outfit need to remove the whole outfit in order to relieve themselves. So I said maybe in the future it will be much easier. She replied not in the future she meant the actress's. And I replied... and she said maybe you can just stop talking. :0) We have been in our house now for three weeks with the kungflu going around. I wonder how many couples are spending more time together. :0)
2045 is implausible for interstellar travel.
There was a good dramatic atmosphere and some nice visuals. And the actresses obviously are talented and took their roles seriously. They are also very pretty. But I honestly couldn't tell what was happening other than that their spaceship crashed, they were stranded for 5 years, and at the end they released an energy being out of a container. The dialogue aboard the ship was so hard to hear that it added to the confusion. I doubt that they would have been so chipper after 5 years in a wasteland.
Not to mention that their suits would not still look so spiffy...
So in the future,spacewomen dress like they're going to an S & M party.
I marvel at many of the landscapes that get used for these productions .
If this were a trailer for a movie, I would be interested in finding out more, but not ready to buy a ticket.
_two girls: (safe and sound..)_
3:00 *SCIENCE ..Commanding Officer: (space ship blows up)*
⚡IEG: _yea, I see.. what went wrong there.._
Alot of great concepts you come uo with...there are times i wish you would take them further...love the short stories
I was expecting whatever Starion was, was what they released and it was going to rain down an abundance of magical terra-forming of life on what seemed to be an utterly lifeless planet they had previously been ejected upon do to some malfunction on the starship they were in...
Okay let me tell you what I think I just saw, two immensely unbelievably huge alien women, release a star into space. Close?
This vid SERIOUSLY needs some subs!!
What the woman onboard the ship is saying is unintelligible due to all the noise in the background!
Like Dust for all the sci fi short movies it has.
I enjoyed the build up and twist at the end. Thanks for the content DUST
Those girls were definitely high when they filmed this !
never have i ever disliked a video on RUclips... until now
So Pandora's Box in outer space. What hellish nightmare did these two women unleashed to an unsuspecting universe?
Does anyone know where this was filmed. Id love to see that landscape for real
Yes
I am going to guess Aqua Dulce near Vasquez Rock (where the famous Kirk fights the Gorn Star Trek episode was shot). It's about an hour from L.A.
@@shadowmihaiu hmmm with the very short female actors i will go with Canada...............and jebus don't those people take prenatal vitamins after banging their dads/brothers/uncles????? They literally(unless part first nation people) are all stunningly short.......................like people were here in the usa a hundred years and more ago.................
Please check sound calibration before posting ! That was mostly inaudible due to noise/voice ratio and having to manually increase/decrease the volume by +-50% between scenes ... thats a recurring issue on Dust
At least the actors were cute. I was really diggin' the girl with the short dark hair
I enjoyed it more than a few other dust shorts that actually made sense.
I am glad they opened that big black hard to open sausage. Was it to hard to send two guys with them? Just incase they couldn't open it. Cheers
4:32 the best bit
👆👆keep pressing this
Why the hate in the comments, this was actually not that bad. Yes the sound effects make it hard to hear some of the words but on a pc it was only a few words i didnt catch. the story doesnt have to be profound and great, it made sense in it own way and leaves a lot open to the imagination, which i really loved in this one. Obviously something happened on the ship after releasing that star? And I asume they or most died, maybe some escaped whatever catastrophy they unknowingly unleashed. The acting expecially in the desert could be improved a bit but overall it was not bad, i enjoyed this movie!
Their make up is perfect.
I watched trying to figure out where they were shooting at? That was some interesting landscape they were in.
I do not know were i would be if there was not DUST .. thank you..April 8 2020
The uniforms made me wonder if they were crew entertainment.
What exactly happened?
Not much
4:32 I think
@@ThisDJ808
yea, she dead
Bad sound. Cannot understand most.of what commander says.
I had to check my playback speed. Was she breathing Helium??
I am not sure I was meant to understand the meaning of this video and its mysterious canister, but nice picture, some effort with the costumes, and it's untertaining during the Covud 19.
If they'd have drilled a 3/8 inch hole in either end, they would have allowed air in as they pulled the cylinder apart. As it was they were pulling against a vacuum with some light thingy inside.
I died a little bit watching this...... right at the end I depleted .o87965 points of my life force.. I felted it leave my body.. thanks alot!!! (Short hair chic... oh yeah! )
"... a long-ago disaster" ten years previously?
I have no idea what that was about but I did kind of enjoy it.
As good as it may be, I'm afraid you neglected to consult with an astrophysicist in the making of this movie! Ask Neil D. Tyson what he thinks of it.
This just played on Dust on the tele, like it was brand new...
2:44 someone clearly doesnt understand how light works.
Little itty- bitty sun is still behind "Jupiter" which should be unlit.
I liked it in spite of some issues. I am hard of hearing so the voice over the claxon was difficult to hear. I thought the speech of the mother was rather cold and distant. It is science fiction, she would not have to say "black ocean of space" just "go out and explore, the universe is beautiful - I love you..." The former sounds stilted to my ears, the latter is something I would say to my own daughter. It falls apart for me at the end, since I missed the imagination part that the writer had in his head or I missed it in the dialogue I could not hear.
Planets cannot exist that close together -for very long...
that was cool. awesome affects, loved the expressions on the actresses faces.
for such a large production, more time could have been spent with the: why of making this short-
for instance: if a person was asked: What would you name a comet? and you answer: Cometion!
that should have been the first conversation-
2nd conversation could between the director/actors about not delivering: a "pretend-time" style of acting-
nearly all the comments below are true- this feels like an ego project-
not anything new or thoughtful, besides an odd name for a star-Starion!
Dust is dust, if they now play 7:37 minute ads
"Your future is dust-"
it's like you (Dust) are saying to every viewer:
"You have no control - you're just blowing in the wind . . . and through the cosmos forever, but mostly just on this planet- that's your future. . . ."
I'm not arguing your accuracy on that -
but that's what your brand feels/sounds like-
how many times do I have to hear that weird trailer/bumper? Update that s***-
an out-dated digital voice, with loud ad spike sound audio levels, and downer autocratic delivery-
why was this short made? as an advertisement-
I rarely review, or type this much- but this one clip, made me question and comment-
on the chessiness/reality balance of actual human life-
thanks on the pretend story that had nothing to do with nothing-
Malloria! I’ve been there. 😃
Well I didn't have a clue what that was about and I agree, the background music drowns out the dialogue.
Also the film is set in 2043 or 45. That's only down the road from 2020. I doubt space travel will have advanced that far in 20 yrs
Bored at 2:19. Moving on to the next.
Also, i would like to announce I'd do neither of these actors!
I couldn't even make it halfway through that stunning and brave....whatever it was.
So they are two stasis children from a crippled science ship that went down 10 years before. Who raised them? Did the ship land or crash? How did they survive? How is nourishment generated? Are they the only survivors? What is their goal with the "star"? [Is it a flair/signal?] Does the star have a function or is it a firework? [I would have had the actors practice pulling on a broom handle to give them the idea of body position when pulling against someone #straight_arms] Humans either have motivations or impulses: if this is a firework for her birthday, that would seem mute if they are stranded on a hostile planet where growing food seems like it would be a significant challenge.
The plot I got out of it is this. There was a ship above or in orbit around the planet. Something they assume alive hit the ship and cause catastrophic damage. The women recording knows they are all about to die and says. I have sent two of the children down. Somewhere she references that beacon at the end as well. Then we turn to the two girls (the two children). They have the beacon and are at odds about opening it. Then they switch who does and does not want to open it. Finally, they open the beacon out flies a bright light(the beacon) and off to earth or wherever it is programmed to go and tell where it was. So our girls happy in what they have done one says. Mom would have loved to see this or be here or something like that. They sit and ponder how long a ship of other humans maybe landing on their planet to find them. I assumed some things like the end about a ship coming back. Basically, that's the story I just watched. Not the best, not the worst. I enjoyed it.
good flick .worth the watch