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AvatarTheRev
Reviewed on January 19th, 2006

Decent film. I didn\'t think it of as so much of a soap opera.. I thought of it more as a who-dunit.. that you could maybe see happen on a soap opera. Really just a drama. Extremely well shot.. and decently edited.. but, WAY too long.. way too boring. It needed to get to the action alot quicker. It was very well done.. But, definitly boring. I just think editing down a couple minutes could\'ve maybe made this a more interesting video. The acting for the most part was decent. I thought the guy with the letter needs some improvement. But, the guy in the red jacket did good.. as did the girls. Overall, well shot. But, definitly needs work story-wise.

Avatarhulk180
Reviewed on January 19th, 2006

Nice graphics for the intro. This movie LOOKS nice. Good framing and the angles work well and are used well. Looks like you used the lighting from the regular overhead lights-- it was slightly washed out but not as bad as it could have been. A few shots could have been lit better (the hand with the gun and last shot).

The sound is really terrible. Some photography skill is obviously there-- I think if you worked on your lighting, and invested in some nice external mics (I assume you used an onboard mic) I think you could have a nice thing going here.

And invest in a tripod-- Some of the static shots that almost were seemed a little shaky and detracted from the action.

I am really digging the camera work. This was definitely HW material-- I assume it was LW\'ed because of a late entry.

Excellent job overall and fo sho gets my LW vote.

Avatartaekwondave
Reviewed on January 19th, 2006

Excellent lighting and camera work. I was getting pretty bored near the middle before the reading of the letter. That could have been cut down a bit. Overall I enjoyed the story and hope to see more submissions from you in the future.

AvatarEugene
Reviewed on January 19th, 2006

Thank you guys for the feed back. Every comment is much appreciated and we will be doing more in the near future. I enjoyed all of your films as well.

Avatarloveislbind2all
Reviewed on January 24th, 2006

Okay, I was a bit lost with this one. The acting also was a bit blant. Some shots where chopped too quickly. The audio was clear but some times got too quiet which made some parts hard to follow. The plot was a good idea. I just think a lot of the work could have been done with more enthusiasm.

AvatarMayhem
Reviewed on January 25th, 2006

The effort makes it HW, the technical aspects are very LW. Like the fades between shots, but needs more lighting.

More of a dramtic scene from a soap opera. Although i enjoyed this, i would have LW\'d it.

AvatarAKLPhilo
Reviewed on January 30th, 2006

I felt that this was more of a drama piece than a soap-opera like segment. The table reading segment wasn\'t really working for me, he was reading off a piece of paper and it felt like it, you needed to amp up some of the drama a little. Also some of your lighting looked kind of yellow.

But hey filmfighting is all good so hope you\'ll keep at it with future entries on the site.

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