I recently made this documentary for a school project http://youtu.be/q9YGW6ob1Zs - I would appreciate feedback as I have only asked family friends and they are way too lenient! There is the obvious low quality green-screening on a few of the interviews and my dads acting, but there was reasoning behind those problems so leave them out if possible but otherwise, let it rip, I need honesty! Thanks giys
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Thanks for some great advice, I'll definitely take it onboard for my next projects - I really appreciate feedback and appreciate that you took your time to watch it, thanks again!
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This could be shaved down by another 6 minutes. The sound needs to be fixed. Some color correction would help immensely. I also agree with Nicks second comment.
Thanks for the feedback, some of the sound was due to filming with my schools camera instead of my canon so I won't use those again! And do you feel there is any unecessary scenes which I could cut out to make it shorter?
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Copy that. I would start with shaving any excess frames where nothing is happening or you just have dead space. If the space isn't there for a specific reason as in dramatic effect then get rid of it. Next... watch it without loving-doting eyes and be critical of your own project then start cutting away. I can't tell you what scenes are necessary or not as I don't know what it is you want to say in the end. All I can say is that I got bored half way through but forced myself all the way through so I could try and provide some honest feedback. Your ending is missing sound entirely. Was that on purpose?
Hmm, thanks for the honesty, I wasn't really getting that from friends and family and it was really needed. I was trying to show how families can be completely opposite due to their status of wealth and how people can change so suddenly just by experiencing a wealthy lifestyle which is shown in the change of the boys' morals at the end. Did you mean the interview at the end which was silent? Thanks for taking your time to watch it, I'll definitely improve on my next projects now which I'll post on here:)
Yes @13:50 - 14:10
I have actually been having problems with that clip- when I recorded it with a clip-on mic from school, it seemed to record the voice on one side of the speakers/headphones and not the other (I thought it was mute in editing but I only had one heaphone in!). What he said was along the same lines as Richard's interview before so it's nothing special but that was a problem I couldn't seem to fix
Then why is it the final cut? Do a work around have the kid come in and do it again. If you don't have access to the same location, I am sure there are plenty of abstract can be anywhere walls in your city/town. Have him do a VO. Do anything but leave a big heaping lump of dead space at the end of your project.
You should be able to hear it with the volume turned up? And we had to do it on a strict deadline as it was for our coursework at school so we unfortunately didn't have time to reshoot:(