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Coin Operated Short Movie Analysis

The animated short film Coin Operated follows a boy from childhood to old age as he pursues his dream of going to space. As a boy, he rides a rocket-themed coin-operated ride at the grocery store but is disappointed when it does not launch him into space. He then sets up a lemonade stand and saves his earnings. Years later, as an old man, he returns to the ride and uses his savings to launch himself into the sky. The film uses 2D animation and follows the boy's journey chronologically from his initial inspiration to his ultimate achievement of experiencing space travel.

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Coin Operated Short Movie Analysis

The animated short film Coin Operated follows a boy from childhood to old age as he pursues his dream of going to space. As a boy, he rides a rocket-themed coin-operated ride at the grocery store but is disappointed when it does not launch him into space. He then sets up a lemonade stand and saves his earnings. Years later, as an old man, he returns to the ride and uses his savings to launch himself into the sky. The film uses 2D animation and follows the boy's journey chronologically from his initial inspiration to his ultimate achievement of experiencing space travel.

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Analysis of Coin Operated directed by Nicholas Arioli

Title film : Coin Operated


Year : October 3, 2017
Nationality : United States
Names of the actors : Mark Sorensen
Names of the director : Nicholas Arioli

A. Literary Aspects
1. Theme: motivational, dream and ambition
2. Plot: chronological order or progressive plot
- A young boy sees a rocket kiddle ride at a grocery store. His mother
gives him coins and he rides it
- He is disappointed when the ride doesn’t launch him into space
- He opens a lemonade stand and earns money from it
- It goes on until the boy has become an old man. He goes back to the
ride and fills it with coins that he has earned
- The ride wobbles at first but soon shakes violently and launches him
into space
3. Setting: at grocery stores and the street exactly where the lemonade shop
was set up
4. Genre: animated short film
5. Character:
- A little boy (main character): flat/static character
- Mother (side character): flat/static character
6. Point of View: Third person omniscient

B. Dramatic Aspects
1. Visualization: 2D
2. Acting
Son (young): Energetic movements, excited to disappointment when the
rocket didn’t go to the sky, happy while selling lemonade

Son (old): happy but tired, walking with hunched back, worried to sad when
the machine didn’t move, happy again
3. Costume
Son (young): t-shirt (with embroidery pin on), and jeans + handmade
astronaut helmet and jetpack
Mom: pink dress
Son (old): sweater (with embroidery pin on) and brown trousers
4. Make up/hair do:

Son (young): Angular fringe hairstyle

Son (adult): Slightly longer hair, face looked larger and older

Son (old): White hair, face wrinkles, bearded, and wearing sunglasses

C. Cinematic Aspects
1. Framing
- Single shots
- Over-the-shoulder shots
- Over-the-hip shots
- Point-of-view shots
- Insert shots
2. Camera angles
- Straight on (the boy) and low angle (his mother)

- Low angle
- High angle

3. Camera position
- Medium shot
- Close up

- Wide shot
- Medium close up

4. Camera movement

-Trucking (moving the camera from left to right)


-Zooming (the camera lens is used to move closer to or farther from the
subject)

- Dolly in (the direction of the camera getting closer to the subject)

- Tilt Up (vertical camera movement from bottom to top)

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