RachelGreene Wrote:It ain't as great as others, but good enough i guess..
It was REALLY well done, extremely well done for a first try. Good job!
Just a few comments for you in the below spoiler. Spoiler'd to avoid having those who dislike doing so to have to read a wall of text.
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The music went well with the video, and while you changed songs, you didnt make the mistake that many people make of just cutting off the song, you faded it, overlapped it, etc. The transition between songs at the zakum portion was perfect, to the extent that I had to relisten to it to notice it was two tracks. The words in the song and the mood the songs set fit well with what you were trying to portray in your video.
With that being said, there could've been more that you could've done with the music. I dont know how familiar you are in the mechanics of music but music can be divided and separated into many sections. In the Yellowcard song, there are two main ways to separate the song: Instrumental and portions with lyrics. Then within the lyrics, it can be divided into different sections: Verse (the beginning section) and Chorus (Here I go...). If you listen closely, you'll notice that there chorus is given extra emphasis by having it louder and more orchestrated than the verse. This gives it a "higher" more "dramatic" feel. What am I getting at? You can fit your scenes to the song and "section" your parts/story with these sections of the song. So the "RachelGreene" scene could be in the opening intro, then "16x Marksman" could go in the verse section or something like that. Its really a minor thing that no one would notice, but it would make it subtly more enjoyable without the audience knowing why.
Your did your transitions nicely. Im not sure if you did them randomly or if you actually had reasons for using the various ones you did but... yeah, I enjoyed them. Your cropping was well done as well. I really liked the part at zakum where you followed your snipe arrow in slow motion towards zakum's death. I personally felt the end with the greyscale pictures could've just stuck with still motions to give it more effect but that's a <really> minor thing.
I liked the storyline you stuck with the video. Your scenes fit with it and reinforced the story. I personally felt there could've been more text/more divisons. Sometimes, your sections were so long that I forgot what the previous text had said. Perhaps a bit more text, perhaps giving a few more details here and there would've made it even better.
I enjoyed watching this a lot and hope to see more from you. It was really nicely done and on a rating of 5, I'd say this is a good 4.5/5. Well done =]
Ps. Questions that are unrelated: How long did you spend on the video? How long did the zak solo take you?
