Justin
"Filmmaking with Zak Kratzer" by Lawnjockey Productions - Reviewed on January 15th, 2009

Great cheesy music and voice over! This encoding looks pretty good for youtube. I CAN MAKE MOVIES FROM MY HOME, I BELIEVE IT!

I wish that 'Filmmaking!' title was pizzazzzierr. Cheesier.

Ooh, those cheetas!! They always ruin my shoots too. Oh shit pokemon battle! Man, I was going to learn so much about filmmaking. Wow, that's a real cheeta stand up. Looks awesome. This was ridiculous but fun. Good video game sounds. Very jumping the shark.

Justin
"Lost - Jumping the Shark" by Kings of Reel - Reviewed on January 15th, 2009

Awesome intro, you've got some style there dude.

Pretty pumped about the Lost finale? That should be exciting. I am still sort of into that show. Haha, I'm such a sucker for smoke. AWESOME opening shot. Great lighting!!!!!!!! Audio is great too.

Backgammon is old as shit. That's for real guys.

Ha, here's why you're wrong and why - love that line. Ha, you've been reading my blog. Erik loves Lost, I'll have to show this to him.

Honestly, 8 minutes is long. Too long. This would be a glorious 5 minutes for sure, there are some pauses in there that could be axed. I get that they're just chilling and you wanted the vibe, but for an intro it's a bit long.

Man. Kate just loves that Sawyer doesn't she. Awesome lighting in this too. ABC logo in the corner is a nice touch. Ha, other other others. nice.

Freckle tits! HA!

Dragging a bit for me around 6 min. The Locke scene could have been cut to a shorter little aside. - you could have cut right to 6:40 with "You've got to tell us what's going on ..."

OH SNAP SMOKE MONSTER?! Haha wow, awesome effect!! Oh god, not Hiro. Haha, wow this was awesome guys. Great attention to detail.

Justin
"Guns and Zombies" by MMurray - Reviewed on January 16th, 2009

Nice fake guns! At least I hope they're fake. Gotta love them muzzle flares. You guys are just shooting everywhere! That's intense.

Not sure why that's in slow motion. I think the reveal of facebook would be better if he was talking for a while, and then it cut to the facebook page.

One great thing about computers in movies is all the bleep bloop sound effects. Would be cool to have added those in there somewhere.

2:10 - I don't like when people only half scream - you can tell you're keeping your 'indoor voices' and it's less fun than real screaming.

2:32 - this montage is not snappy enough - usually these things are a lot of fast cuts. This is too slow, too many shots of the same thing, should be like "BAM" Face masks, BAM gloves.

Ha, nice head shot effect. Aw poor birthday zombie.

"Let's mosey" - nice

This needs some action packed music. Kind of awkwardly shot. I like the "28 days later" style of zombie movie - maybe you were going for a more realistic style?

4:47 - Ha!! I LOVE you popping up a bunch of times. That pretty much made the movie for me- really smart, really fun. That was pure awesome. The burst of music was perfect too. Hahah. Ahh that was killer. Haha, that was awesome.

Popsicles are cold, brr. It's too cold in nyc today.

I love the shot of "you had sex with a zombie!!" (that guy kind of looks like christian bale for some reason in that shot)

Fun submission, too long though - what no credits at the end? Would love the BAM and then cut to black and then some credits.

Justin
"The Peacock" by Monkey-Penguin Productions - Reviewed on January 16th, 2009

Love the idea of this being the 7th season. This looks liek the same font as in the 'zak kratzer' movie. Funny.

Good lighting and audio. Not sure this is how they would have shot an 'old timey show' if you were trying to mimick that look. I like the transitions, looks like they might have been interlaced - if you're editing in final cut you need to make sure that your field dominance is set to 'none' on your sequence file settings. (or maybe it's not and I'm just being wonky)

I like Bill's mustache.

I had a sleeping mask but I lost it in Europe.

Ha, wow, a burglar fight, yeah that's pretty jumping the sharky.

Haha "WHO SENT YOU!"

Jesus! Scary mask! Oh snap now it's in color, this is getting crazy. Michael Douglas's "Falling Down" anyone?

Ridiculous mask, love it.

LOVE the shot at 4:06!!!!!!

Goddamnit Ted. What a bitch. What a crazy neighborhood.

Totally rad flying sequence! Really well done guys, this week has a bunch of solid entries. I'm not sure who to vote for! Certainly not a bad problem to have. Almost a year, eh? It's been too long! Welcome back!

Justin
"Lost - Jumping the Shark" by Kings of Reel - Reviewed on October 2nd, 2009

You guys made a great one! Love LOST!