The concept behind the short film was simple. You open up on a robot, vaguely humanoid in shape, but obviously mechanical. Something with a giant screen or a piece of glass for a face. He's sitting at a desk, using a computer. Typing, moving the mouse around, checking his websites. Nothing grand or purposeful, just idly browsing the internet, trying to keep himself entertained. You can just barely make out some of the sites he visits in the reflection on his 'face.'
But it's not like watching someone pretending to be a robot. He doesn't sit rigid in the chair or type insanely fast, clacking away on the keyboard like a machine gun. His shoulders are slumped, he types in a slightly faster hunt-and-peck style. Not because of any mechanical proficiency, but just because he seems used to doing it that way.
And for the most part, that's all the movie was. Just this static camera holding on this robot. You could have mistaken it for someone leaving the video camera on by accident. They were going to film something interesting, presumably in that incredibly complex and expensive looking suit, but they just forgot what they were doing, and got sucked in to puttering around on the computer.
It goes on like that until it hits just the wrong side of comfortable. It the many modified versions that exist today, re-creators and editors took advantage of a YouTube tool that tells you exactly when people close your video. Once you find the sweet spot of where people's attention span ends, you edit out a few superfluous seconds of the robot looking at Facebook. Then you post your 'perfected' clip, so more people can be in on the punchline. Some edits take that concept even further, the majority of which all last around ten seconds. The fastest one I've ever seen was under one second, but that was a version edited for a 'year in review' segment on some morning television show.
But personally, I never saw the appeal of the diluted versions of the Brobot films. But I think that has to do with the fact that when I fist watched the video, my timing was 'perfect'. I was sitting there, watching this mechanical man waste his day away while doing the same thing. And I got bored, and I leaned forward, balancing my left elbow on the desk, cradling my face in my hand. It was something I did almost e
But it's not like watching someone pretending to be a robot. He doesn't sit rigid in the chair or type insanely fast, clacking away on the keyboard like a machine gun. His shoulders are slumped, he types in a slightly faster hunt-and-peck style. Not because of any mechanical proficiency, but just because he seems used to doing it that way.
And for the most part, that's all the movie was. Just this static camera holding on this robot. You could have mistaken it for someone leaving the video camera on by accident. They were going to film something interesting, presumably in that incredibly complex and expensive looking suit, but they just forgot what they were doing, and got sucked in to puttering around on the computer.
It goes on like that until it hits just the wrong side of comfortable. It the many modified versions that exist today, re-creators and editors took advantage of a YouTube tool that tells you exactly when people close your video. Once you find the sweet spot of where people's attention span ends, you edit out a few superfluous seconds of the robot looking at Facebook. Then you post your 'perfected' clip, so more people can be in on the punchline. Some edits take that concept even further, the majority of which all last around ten seconds. The fastest one I've ever seen was under one second, but that was a version edited for a 'year in review' segment on some morning television show.
But personally, I never saw the appeal of the diluted versions of the Brobot films. But I think that has to do with the fact that when I fist watched the video, my timing was 'perfect'. I was sitting there, watching this mechanical man waste his day away while doing the same thing. And I got bored, and I leaned forward, balancing my left elbow on the desk, cradling my face in my hand. It was something I did almost e
