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"The Halloween Party" by fridgeraiders - Reviewed on November 17th, 2008

I like the gong in the opening.

That kid has some fresh chains. Fresh! I don't like the fade cut --- best to do a dip to black or just a straight up cut.

Pretty good lighting in the party scene! Typically you could fall prey to things being way too dark but it looks good. Wow ,weird slow motion stuff. I like the goofy sound effects.

Haha, great laugh after he gives the girl the apple.

IM THE FREAKIN GIVING TREE!Great track and field sign, Haha, John McCain and obama segment is funny. Wow this flash back sequence is awesome. I like this a lot. Good thought went into it, good set up. I think the first 2003 segment goes too long -- (oh snap you've got two 2003 segments) - haha he's actually naked - that takes some guts! Oh college.

I like the sad 'tim' chant.

I think the "halloween 2050" text should have been larger and filled up the whole screen -- or do osmething where the years are cranking up higher and higher. A bit long but I think you did a good job on this. KUDOS!

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"Halloween 2050" by imafish - Reviewed on November 17th, 2008

The kid in the glasses reminds me of the guy from There Will Be Blood. And that Sunshine movie. Looks like you've got wide screen video that's playing squished in your window. Some nice smoke effects. I can hear the smoke machine puffing in the background. It's super hard to hear the voice in the background - annoying that you guys have to repeat everything. Some pretty funny ideas for GW Bush coming back. I see you've got some motion tracking going on for the candy corn.

Yah really weird weak plot. Glad to see a submission but there was some room there to add in a conflict with the mysterous voice in the future -- maybe you could have verbally outwitted him or something, anything rather than just no conflict and asking questions and then just going back. Take a little time to flesh out the concept a little more, and be careful about your audio levels - remember it's always a good idea to re-record your audio with another mic and just lip sync it, or at least get close up shots of people when they're talking (even if it's just you two and a tripod, have the 2nd person hold the camera to get the close ups) sticking far away the whole time just leaves you unappealing shots and un-hearable audio!

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Replied on November 20th, 2008

Thanks for the review Justin! And those "smoke" effects are the ink effects from the AWESOME software "Riot Gear" I had a fog machine, but no smoke showed up, so I had to add it. :-)

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