STILL ALIVE (Short Film) | Mary Kate Wiles & Jocelyn Kelvin | Jackson Lanzing

[@einsteinjoel]

Kind of only discovered your stuff in the past day so i've just spent the last bit doing a giant youtube trawl of your shows/musicals/short clips. Love your work and please please please keep making more :)

[@emkaysmiles]

+Joel Einstein Thank you so much! So glad you like the stuff I've done, and thank you for saying so!

[@Lilypale]

Beautiful scene captured on film- all the tension and suspense as any big budget I could name. I love this just as much as Spore- keep these coming! Everyone does such a good job!

[@emkaysmiles]

+Lilypale Thank you so much!

[@anelson41]

How many movies have you watched where the line "It's just us girls" is flipping threatening? Yeah. Awesome job guys! A great story and plot! :)

[@mosesknows2062]

Nice job all around and Mary Kate was awesome... Thanks Moses...

[@user443]

Didn't realize I was holding my breath until the credits. *Whew!*

[@nonnidreams]

For a second I was like, what just happened. So many questions about the bigger story! Then I read the short description. The medic and the soldier. That made so much sense. At first, I assumed they were survivors. And one was a tough baddie. And the other was a good female leader who is going to help the other survivors. Knowing they are a medic and a soldier, makes it more interesting. Definitely, the one who died was the soldier. After the shock of killing the soldier, I think the medic would gather her strength to help the other survivors. She had to choose the group over the one who was betraying everyone else. That soldier totally was out to save herself and was ready to shoot the medic and abandon the others. The comments that mentioned "Marlow", the graphic novel, got my interest. I looked it up. The description sounds very depressing for me. Definitely not my cup of tea. But that now makes me wonder, if the female soldier, is like the Marlow guy in the graphic novel. Using medicine from a corporation to fight off becoming a zombie, but actually, a zombie because of the nihilistic life she chooses, which is fear driven.

[@emmyrose77]

this was intense & so awesome! well done ladies

[@MartinDeHill]

This is one of TWO things in my subscription feed

[@gracerichter9156]

Wow. This was so so good! Idky I just found it now but omg

[@vatsalamolly]

Love the song on the credits!

[@warrengday]

Really drew me in. Very real, especially your post-shot reaction.

[@sarahboden]

This was amazing! I love your work, can't wait to see more of it xx

[@firewordsparkler]

This was so intense. I love the way you act. It's incredible.

[@mustardsfire22]

*low whistle* This was awesome!!!

[@hersheyhorse47]

Fantastic as always!

[@TheCowgirlgem]

Very cool! I love how with only one set and two actors you set up the scene so very well. There is such a sense of danger and a feeling of how this is a part of a bigger story.

[@Moviemeep2012]

Loved this short!

[@Fulumirani]

Wow. This makes me want to know everything about both of them - what happened, how'd they end up there, who are they, really -- it's a fantastic snapshot of a compelling moment.

[@Summer-tz4to]

This was great!

[@LesBugsDeGue]

Wow.

[@laprinces08]

You deserve praise!

[@asleegraves4901]

What I wouldn't give to see the full 'Marlow' script... Anyway, great acting from both you and Jocelyn!

[@Equihan]

I love this! I think is so fantastic how we're given such great paintings of the characters in such a short space of time. And I love how your character has both strength (is a leader?) and we see her vulnerability too. I do hope you'll let us know if ever it's made as the feature-length! Can anyone explain the significance of the shot at 2:18, though? I'm an Aussie and know pretty much nothing about guns-does the switch mean anything relevant, or is it just a cool shot?

[@KateHackett]

I think she wasted her bullet. Or the zombies heard the shot & are coming for her.

[@chinupprincess8156]

this was wonderful acting and filming well done 😄

[@RachelisConfused]

holy cow this is perfect

[@mishuty]

Nice!!

[@untappedinkwell]

This was pretty great!

[@dustinmiller7026]

Ohh.. Mary Kate cursed. Very good short.

[@Theatre_Girl63095]

This was really good

[@melaniamacd]

This short was very well executed on all fronts and I really enjoyed it. I have one question, and maybe I'm crazy, but I'm 98% certain I've seen this before. Has this been anywhere else on the internet?

[@emkaysmiles]

+yellowwroses You may have! It was up for only 24 hours last October as a part of a horror festival.

[@melaniamacd]

+Mary Kate Wiles Ohh that must have been it! I was like "maybe I saw some kind of short trailer..." but then when the end happened I distinctly remembered how it made me feel the first time I saw it. (dread, realization, pit of chest/stomach feeling.) Anyway, you all did a great job and I'm glad to see it again :)

[@juststeveschannel]

This shows up in my sub feed right alongside the trailer for Yulin's "Angie and Zahra." It's a ZOMBIE DUPLEXALYPSE! (of Awesomeness.)

[@jocelyn4645]

Jocelyn is my name too! :D

[@fredgarvinism]

Nice but I still have to wonder why she did not have a shell in the chamber prior to the start of the conversation.

[@fweenz]

Hey MK! Please don't take this as just another negative critique, I want to ask why isn't there a plot? I mean photography was killer and acting was great it's just that there was no story for me, same happened to me with Spore. I think there's a lot of potential on your content, but I don't think this counts as much as a short film, I see just a situation, an encounter. Anyway, take care, and keep up the cool videos :)

[@samwightman1]

It's based on a graphic novel called 'marlow'. Go check it out for more plot line. :)

[@emkaysmiles]

+fweenz Hi, fweenz. Thank you for the feedback, and I hear you. Some people don't like things that are light on plot--that was a critique I saw often with Squaresville. However, I don't necessarily share this same feeling, on the whole--and I want to know, if this does not qualify as a "short film" to you, then what should I call it? A scene? A snippet? Because I promise, all the people who put a ton of hard work into it, on music, camera, costumes, producing...put the same amount of work into this as they would any other short film. We all treated it as such, as I do with anything I work on--I give it as much of my attention and hard work as I can. Nobody who has worked on this (which I will remind you, I only acted in and did not produce in any way) or Spore put any less work into it than they would any short simply because the plot is simple. With Spore, that was part of our goal: to provide a look at what could be a very big sci-fi world when we only had very little resources. With this, it was a part of a full-length feature script that no one has the ability to produce on a large scale at this point. There are a lot of factors that go into production that influence the final product. You don't have to like it, that's not what I'm saying at all, but take into consideration all the hard work and the reasons the people who work on it have made the choices that they've made. Personally, I appreciate things that give me the chance to imagine the parts of their stories that they aren't showing me.

[@fweenz]

+Mary Kate Wiles I do understand that a lot of work was put into this, I'm a film student myself. And I find that photography, camera work and acting were really good. To be honest, I couldn't have done a better job, I am in no way implying that I know more than anyone, I guess I tend to follow better short films with a traditional story line and my comment was actually an honest question on why there was no traditional story line, not an implication that this was right or wrong. I'm still learning and I need to be more open about people's creations and their decisions, if anything, I apologize if I came on a little rude, and I look forward to future videos on your channel :)

[@emkaysmiles]

+fweenz No harm done. I hope I answered your question--it is a part of a bigger story. :)

[@jacquelineavery]

+fweenz Personally, I love films with more character and less plot, and I certainly don't think that makes them less qualified to be called films. I lot of arthouse feature films are this way, and I'm sure no one would say they don't count as films. That said, I don't think you can put Spore and this film in the same category on this matter. I'd say Spore was pretty plot-heavy compared to this, it's that the plot was more subtle than we may perhaps we used to (as is usually necessary within the constraints of a short film).

[@Fulumirani]

Wow. This makes me want to know everything about both of them - what happened, how'd they end up there, who are they, really -- it's a fantastic snapshot of a compelling moment.