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8th Day Labour, "Fall From G.R.A.C.E."
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Avatarloveislbind2all
Reviewed on May 21st, 2006

Pretty interesting. The copywrite free music sounded a bit cheesy. Was he really just hacking from a school instead of a corporate building while on acid? That\'s what it seemed like.

AvatarMush
Reviewed on May 21st, 2006

Tripod. Get one, use one. If you\'re gonna do voiceovers, use a mic. The falling sequence was weirdish.... hands jumped out of the shot a lot. For a piece this short, I wouldn\'t overlay credits into the opening the way you did, they\'re too distracting. Sitting at a computer is... sitting at a computer. One shorter establishing shot would have done it. G.R.A.C.E. has lockers, does it? I\'m just giving you a hard time, I know what it\'s like to film at a school. Random umbrella guy! Convenient! I liked seeing the inside shot after seeing the outside shot. Uh, random ending, I guess it worked? I had a hard time believing the office building and the school were one, especially if the main joke/purpose of the piece was to have him fall out the first floor. Meh. Decently done, not to my taste but I don\'t take off points for that.

AvatarJeremy
Reviewed on May 26th, 2006

te little camera shaly thing at the begining was cool. greenscreen wasnt bad, except that his hands were cut off. thats happened to me (halloween wish), so i feel ya. not much you can do in post production to fix it, except hoep not too many people notce :) really, the whole film was pretty decent, the opening credits were a little much to suffer throught. looking forward to more from you guys in the future.

AvatarAKLPhilo
Reviewed on May 26th, 2006

It's very ironic that I described an idea to my friend "Cate" about a character in an insane asylum who falls from a ledge, which the character "Dr. Grace" tries to get him to step back from the ledge.

Very cool that you guys got to use a building/ school to shoot inside of for your film. Lighting is a little dark in certain scenes as the character is running around. Unfortunately you can't just get away with using overhead lights in a hallway. A couple additional lights would work wonders here.

Unfortunately you look like you're doing a doggie paddle when you're falling. I didn't get a sense of "impending death" or anything scary; if you were going more for a comedic element, that works here.

The voiceover audio sounds very muffled. Try to use a microphone next time instead of on-board camera.

While it was an interesting entry, I kind of question why this one was in the heavyweights.

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