Moving Image 4

http://vimeo.com/35375393

Title: Numbers
Artist: Matias Caruso
Source: Vimeo

While watching the film I slowly got the story of the film a bit more, the story is about a young man with a special ability, he sees numbers floating above peoples heads. The young man doesn't understand the ability he has, but later on he meets a woman with a similar ability. But her ability is much more perfected compared to his and she helps him understand his power better.

When I first watched this film I instantly thought of Death Note with the numbers above peoples head that either count down or up. But unlike death note where if you possess the eyes of the Shinigami they see the amount of time a person has until they die, where else this film tells us that there are different reasons for the numbers besides seeing someone lifespan.

I later on found out how the artist of this film made the numbers appear above people heads by using Adobe After Effects. I actually don't know how to exactly explain it but with the help of Youtube videos I slowly got an understanding of the effect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZtc7WCIjGU



I think my favourite scene of the whole film was near the end when the woman tells the man about "reapers" who are people who can see the amount of days people have until they die, as soon as the time hits midnight there numbers go down. Her phone alarm then goes off showing the time is midnight, the man looks at her number to realise it changed from 30 to 29. This then shows us that he's in fact a reaper and is hurt to see how long her life span is.