korric said:
I think it dragged on too far with the credits in the beginning, no offence, but waiting litterally almost a minute, hearing bombsirens isnt interesting, and I think the viewer gets his patience tried.
Good point, and if this was made specifically for youtube, I'd agree with you. However, keep in mind that the almost a minute long opening credits are the opening of a movie that's 47 minutes long. The only reason I'm uploading to youtube in chunks like this is that nothing more than 5 minutes long gets any views on youtube.
Public said:
Nice cinematography, as others pointed out and also the location.
...the sound pretty much sucks. Especially the voice over part...which was kinda random and "out of place" with its low quality.
I can understand the low budget, but I can tell you that even with a simple Cool Edit or Audacity program, you can make magic...
There is no background sound effects, just this humming sound- which would fit more into a cave location, not an open field...
Edit:
The part at the end when the guy falls, it looks silly 9the way he falls).
The locations and visuals in this movie are it's real strengths, I feel. I had to go out of my way to make them look as good as possible, given that I knew the sound was going to suck either way since we were using the inboard microphone on a shitty camera.
What you hear in this movie is actually the product of two straight weeks of sound editing. You think it sucks now? Yeah, I admit it's pretty bad. But you should have heard it before I started spending countless hours using Soundtrack Pro and Audacity to clean it up. As for background acoustics, I deliberately wanted the opening to have nearly no background sounds. There's plenty of ambient noise later in the movie. Finally, the humming: I can't explain why it's doing that, really: the DVD version has a very low, barely audible camera hum that's impossible to completely remove without making the rest of the audio sound like it's under water, I guess the youtube upload must have made it more audible.
The voice-over narration was recorded in the same locations as the scenes took place, with a Tascam P2 portable digital audio recorder and a shotgun microphone, both borrowed from my school. We used the same equipment to record a lot of ambient noise that was used later on in the movie. We would have used this equipment to record -all- audio, but unfortunately, we didn't have access to it until the last year or so of the production, and I wasn't about to go back and re-shoot the whole damn movie by that point.*
As for the fall, well, that's just how I fell at the time I guess. I admit it looks a bit funny.
*EDIT: For the record, I absolutely -hate- using in-camera audio, even when we have a separate microphone on a boom pole running into the camera. I love shooting double system, meaning recording the video/film with a camera and recording audio with a completely separate machine (I prefer the Tascam over most things for this purpose) and microphone set up. This gives you both the best quality audio and the widest range of what you can do in editing.
That being said, I rarely get to shoot double system. Usually equipment is hard to come by, and people to operate it are just as difficult to find. These days, I'm lucky if I can find a camera and a camera operator other than myself. However, I'm moving to Los Angeles in January, and have two friends with HD cameras out there, so I'm thinking about buying my own Tascam (with all the mics and gear, it's about $1,500), assuming that my friends are cool enough/have enough time to make movies in the time frame and frequency I like to. I've been shooting a movie every month for the past three months or so, and I want to keep up that trend, although the living expenses and work responsibilities of LA might put a dent in that.
