There's a Man in the Woods

     Jacob Streilein's film There's a Man in the Woods centers around a teacher and how one child manage to change everything. Throughout the story, the mood changes and matches the emotions of the teacher. I saw this once in 2014, so I was really glad that I discovered it again. The poetic feel of this film adds on to the accumulating tension, and I really like that Streilein went this route. The only flaw that I noticed that stood out the most to me was that Streilein should have picked another voice actor with a deeper voice to suit the teacher better. However, I understand that this is a student film, so it makes sense that the teacher would have a younger-sounding voice as everyone working on these films would be around their early to mid 20s. Despite this flaw, this film still is exceptional in story-telling and I like how he executed the animations to show as much emotion as possible. Below is the film.