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1. Xin Zhou 11.17.17 / 3pm

   Nice work. I didn’t see any short movies during the AFI movie festival. After reading your response to some short movies, I think the short movies are cool and can make the audiences think more deeply. The movie is short, but the director uses some symbols to expresses more. “My favorite piece was a two person that I tried with my girlfriend was called Life of Us created by Zach Richter.We started out bubbles then morphed into fish.Then we were suddenly velociraptors then dragons. The whole time your motions move the character about.” the bubbles, the fish, and dragons are impressive images. I believe that what you saw was really impressive and amazing. Thank you for your share.
2. Bryan Gillison 11.20.17 / 9am

   I really enjoyed the Virtual Reality part of AFI. The technology obviously needs a lot of work and is developing, but gosh it’s a lot of fun. I do wonder how this type of viewing experience will change the nature of viewing films as a group. There is a social aspect to watching a film in a room full of people that is lost I believe when you hide in an individual headset.
3. Alicia Huhn 11.21.17 / 11pm

   I am so glad we made it over to the VIRTIRAL REALITY TECH EXPERIENCES available at the historical Roosevelt Hotel. The hotel itself is a fun place to explore including the excellent rooftop lounge adjacent to the tack room. I did not get to try them all but it would be worth it to plan multiple trips to experience them all. My favorite was also the life of us which is a two-person virtual reality experience. They gave us a little prep ahead of time so we wouldn’t damage the equipment and to be able to use the functions included in the controllers like flying grabbing tossing something aside. While mostly I experienced the sensation of vertigo which was very real it was not so scary. At first it look like Tron totally black with neon grid and these bright blue floating bubbles represented the controllers in your hands and then I realize that I was a blue bubble myself and then Dave and I were both blew bubbles together and then I went inside Dave bubble or something it was very weird and then the next thing I knew we were like fish and then we were the dinosaurs we were velociraptors it was really cool. I was able to somewhat experience jumping off a cliff like a hang glider but really it was me and Dave flying together in the same world as fire breathing dragons!!! It was amazing you could flap your wings and gain altitude or dive and turn Spitfire and fly through flaming volcanoes.
4. Alicia Huhn 11.21.17 / 11pm

   The crime was legal, so everyone accepts it” really sums it up. What else do we accept as “LEGAL”? and what is illegal that ought not be???
   Wow, she, another female director and Protagonist covers a lot of ground and delivers a true murder mystery.

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