Thought I'd drop my 2 cents. My critiques sound extensive but I tend to point out way too many little irrelevant details:
- I don't like how you started the song, you should start it where it actually begins
- I don't really like your logo, I think you could change it up and make it look way better. There's a lot of unused empty space, the text doesn't seem to be centered within the circle, and the text seems to be at an awkward aspect ratio, like it's squished. It's generally not graphically appealing. I would suggest thinking about switching it up, here's a concept I thought of (The font is arbitrary, it's just to suggest an idea):
- On your overlay of the Simple logo, there is a very slight 1px border of dark pixels around the white portions
- IMO your graphic/titling just needs refinement. You have good ideas but I think the execution is mediocre:
+ Consider different font choices, your current ones seem very generic and default
+ Line spacing is off on the "Opening Weekend" title. A good rule of thumb is to separate lines between words by at least the spacing between individual letters
+ Cornered name titles are too large and too cornered - Consider making them a little smaller, more bold, and giving some more spacing between the edges of the frame.
+ I'm not a fan of the motion-tracked name titles or masked titles. They don't seem very "clean" like the rest of the video. Too much complexity and I'm just not stoked on the execution of it.
- The colors are somewhat inconsistent. Earlier shots have a lot of orangey tones, but shots around 2:00 have green and purple tones. It's really hard to get each shot to look consistent, which is why it's important to make sure that your colors (white balance, etc.) in camera while shooting are consistent so that you don't have to try to match differently-colored shots in post.
- Exposure/curves are a little inconsistent. The exposure was pretty spot on in camera, you don't have much underexposed and nothing is overexposed. But in post there is inconsistency with the blacks. A lot of your glidecam shots have crushed, deep blacks, but in the tripod shots, the shadows are much less deep and more flat. Try to even that out.
- If you're going to use the cinemascope ratio, use it to its full advantage. You can "cheat" the ratio by repositioning the original clip in post. For example, at 2:37, the skier's head pops out of the frame for a fair portion of the shot. If you had repositioned the shot lower in post, you could eliminate that.
- A little too much slow motion
- Too long. For edits like this - all from the same day/weekend, same features, etc - it gets very repetitive quickly, so try to trim it down to 2-3 minutes to retain the attention of your audience.
- For some reason your frame isn't fit to the screen. There shouldn't be borders on the left and right sides of the image
Overall I think all of your shortcomings are sourced from post production. Your filming is totally on par to improve a lot this season, I really respect that you shoot tripod so often. You just need to work on the editing + graphics aesthetics of video. 2 or 3 more videos worth of practice and you'll be making really quality stuff.
