I watched the short film titled Day & Night (2010) on Disney Plus. The logline reads, “When Day and Night meet each other sparks fly.” Initially, I thought it was going to be a romantic film, but it wasn’t. Characters: Day and Night share an abundance of empty space. They meet each other and compare bodies. Inside their bodies is life. The two exchange glimpses of scenes within themselves. For example, Day shows Night the pretty girl lying on the beach. Night jumps into that spot and finds the dark beach empty. Day shows Night a quiet Vegas strip, Night shows that exact Vegas strip being very active. What was a competition turned into an appreciation when the two hears a radio tower talk about having differences, which was the only dialogue in the film. The music in this short was neutrally happy-go-lucky. It had a tone that can be compared to the score of The Little Rascals (1994). The best part of the short for me was when the pair gave each other a hug as the sun began to rise and set. They each had half a sun, and it met in the middle, forming a full sun for just a moment when the pair stood side by side. The sun continued to rise and set, then naturally, Day became night, and Night became day. I found it to be very intriguing when the set was the wardrobe. These transparent beings running around an all-black and empty void carried the story along with their literal body language. Day’s body shows the day life. The scenes within them moved and changed naturally as they walked across the void. Night’s body depicts scenes the same way as Day’s body does, except it’s a depiction of the nightlife, which for the most part, isn’t super active in the same places it was active in during the day. The depth of field throughout the short film was unique because all the main action was framed within the beings. The editing, which in this case is also the animation, was clean and crisp. I imagine it must’ve been really taxing and difficult to draw the exact scenes twice with accurate depth and movement but during completely opposite time periods, which also means different light sources. The transitions between the different scenes, sets, and actions were the literal movement of the transparent characters. Whether they were walking, running, or jumping, each step was a transition. Since the radio tower was the only actual form of dialogue, the production heavily relied on sound effects to convey emotion and tone during action when music didn’t fit. In the first interaction between Night and Day. Day makes Night laugh, and the laugh is of literal ducks quacking within Night’s body. Day gets upset with Night for laughing at them, and the buildup of anger is conveyed through the buildup of the sound of buzzing bees which is also depicted in Day’s body. The best part to me about the concept of this short film is how the characters depict life within their bodies but can also interact with the scenes they depict. For instance, Night was showing the edge of a cliff while he was in a position that led me to assume that he was also hanging from the very cliff they were depicting. I hope that with the zero to no resource film project that I am putting together with my fellow classmates will be creative with sound to convey emotion and tone. Since this film has limited dialogue as well, it would be in our best interests to not just use music but sound effects as well as Nat sound. I believe that our film has a lot to offer an audience, but we’re limited by time to provide in-depth character development on screen. The way Day & Night did this was by having the opening scene take place deep within Day’s body as they slept, gradually zooming out until it was obvious Day was a transparent being whose body showcases active life with a void. In regard to the student film I am working on, Memories (2022), I feel that opening with an emotional Bill Jones packing up his house, followed by a cutaway to an obituary that Bill rubs his left hand across while wearing a wedding band is a perfect way to provide background context to an audience when crunched for time. However, we're doing it a little differently since Our active director has a different vision. All in all, there is a lot to get inspired by and pull from this animation short to carry over into a live-action, zero to low resource film.