2013-2014 Season

MLeone

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Hey guys,

I have a new video! I think I'm aware of most of the things I did poorly (Audio problems, too much glidecam, repetitive shots, cutting heads, shotgun in the frame, wind noise, + more) in this edit but feel free to drop a critique or some feedback! Tell me what you think.

Enjoy!
 
Here ya go!
Based on your ability to embed the video I didn't expect much. I was pleasantly surprised. The filming was very well done along with the edit! Good job!
 
12945330:boomie1312_1 said:
Here ya go!
Based on your ability to embed the video I didn't expect much. I was pleasantly surprised. The filming was very well done along with the edit! Good job!

Thanks brotha! I appreciate the kind words.
 
Edit was good! the image and colors were clean, the only feedback is that it's too long/ too slow, I'd put a bit less slowmos and cut some shots maybe in the intro or some tricks that are reapeated alot (like 2outs, theres a lot of 2outs haha)so that the edit is more around 3 minutes than 5 minutes, otherwise good job!
 
Soooo:

Pros:

- Really nice variation in shots, angles, etc.

- 1:12 would have been really nice if he hadn't ducked behind the snow in the trees

Cons:

- If you're going to use audio, or use foley (recorded separately or used from another video), you need to use audio for the whole clip. For the first urban shot where he fell over, you had the rail sound as he hit it but no sound of him falling, which sounded discontinuous. Also you didn't time it right, so the sound came far too long after he actually hit the rail, which tells me you must have taken audio from another clip (which is perfectly okay, I do that for 80% of my audio, just practice on dialing it better.)

- Shot at :30 putting the bindings on was a little too long, should've only made it last the length of him strapping one of them.

- Honestly all of the intro shots were too long, shortening all of them would've helped a lot.

- If you use audio for some clips, use it for all

- Try not to put crashes into the action of the video, it kinda fucks with the flow and doesn't make it work as cleanly.

- Shot at 1:16 was unnecessary

- Too long, I got bored pretty quickly, didn't watch the whole thing, kinda skipped through

- Don't use all slow motion, especially with a song like that, it needs to pick up

- Song's been used a lot before

- Audio at 3:16 was baaaaad

So really I think there are a few places you could improve upon:

- Get better with your audio. If you're shooting with a mic, don't blow out the sounds. When you're editing, make sure you time everything right, use it on all clips, and if there are differences in volume, throw in a lot of fades in and out to make the different volumes see miniscule.

- Get a little better at grading. I personally don't like to grade to a specific color, but rather whatever will give me the most "real" impression of the colors that day.

- Your filming is just fine, a lot better than most of the people on here. Keep sticking with that approach to cinematography and you'll be really well off for it.

Basically just work on editing, that's all that needs to be improved.
 
Also that list seems like a shitload of cons, but it's really like I just don't really focus on the good as much while critiquing. It was definitely better than most of the stuff you see on here.
 
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