Our prompt (Charlie, Janice, and I's) was to create an animation looking at the issues with social media and it's effect on our generation. Therefore, our video uses dark humor to depict social technology as passionless and cold; making people's experiences limited to 10 pre-designed programs, which suck many people in.

The core idea of our animation, The Kraken, was for a person on a train (Harrison) to text an octopus emoji, causing several tentacles to grow out of his phone and suck him in. No other passenger would notice because they are looking at their phones.

There are a couple symbols (besides the Kraken) in our presentation. This includes eyes growing out of the background people's phones. This could represent privacy and security in this era, but could also represent the Kraken watching people's actions. During most of the film the people while looking at their phones are lifeless black and white sillouettes: the only light on their body is from their phones, giving the sillouettes a bit of three dimensionality. This is not the case when Harrison looks up from his phone and turns colorful. This is used to depict that our lives are much more interesting when not on our phones; for those experiences are created by someone else and are not interesting or creative for any user. During the beginning shot of the film, Harrison and the other person were colored in while they were looking at their phones; yet, this was not the intention. This makes the scene seem like an outside perspective looking at these people who are glued to their phones: a happy accident.

As a group, we were slow at animating our pieces; in fact, some of us did not finish our parts. Therefore, we put in sketches of our incomplete scenes in between the finished parts to help the audience understand what is going on. Our sluggishness also effected our sound design: we did not have time to add more interesting sound effects, so we put a song over the entire animation: The Rip by Portishead. This song is effective because it is dramatic yet hopeful.

We hope this film has an impact on people to look up once in a while to enjoy what is in front of them, versus what is fakely projected.