Cypher (12th Jan 2005 23:48)

I couldn't have said it better myself. I was just doing it to get it done. Mine had closeups of some guy...and greenscreen! that's how i went above all the other videos like i said, this was just something new for me and i really dont want to go back into greenscreen again. its not for me...its too.....fake.

 

Aculag (12th Jan 2005 21:05)

Yes, you instead had moving shots of some person with dialogue in the background. As well as closeups. Heh. Most of your films have a really nice visual style that appeals to me, but this one was lacking of that entirely, minus the opening and closing shot that I thought dragged on too long. It was a nice shot, and from that shot, I was expecting more from the rest. I also thought that the guy's acting was stiff and unrealistic, and even if you were going for that surreal feel, he still seemed like he was just doing it to get it done, which I suppose reflects on the amount of time you say you had to do it in. The music was nice, I would have liked to see it go somewhere else, but since the movie was short, I can understand why it didn't really. 2/5. Far from your best work, in my opinion.

 

Cypher (12th Jan 2005 18:35)

Besides the clouds bit which I found through these forums, everything was edited in Final Cut Pro and composited with After Effects. The poorly composited shots were done using the simple greenscreen removal tool in AE. Nicer shots were done involving mattes and luminance (thanks to Billy3D for his help on that) but that was taking a long time so I didn't have enough time to redo all of the shots. The fog was simply an alamdv plugin. No worries about the criticism. I've had this film done for a month or so now and uploaded just to see what everyone thought. It was my first attempt into greenscreening and although an interesting and pretty fascinating process, it's not somethign I want to do again. Give me georgous scenery instead any day (btw, says you voted a 2, not 3 lol). I agree that's it's boring. It was supposed to be 5 minutes and i had trouble stretching it into 3:45. The narration peice was short and that was the basis for this entire bit. You and I have very different camera styles sollthar, you know that lol. I personally find most of your camera work boring, but that's just me. I was using a steadycam, but I didn't bring enough weights to have it properly balanced so it was all over the place. The camera was a pretty heavy one too (hurt my wrist).