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AvatarJustin
Reviewed on November 1st, 2009

Emmerek! You guys rock! Once again showing a very solid acting range that most folks your age don't have. Wise beyond your years!

Had some errors at the start of your film. Some weird glitches. Must have been on export? I notice this happening once and a while on your video clips as well. Not horribly distracting.

Pretty well written.

I would have color corrected this, you're getting a lot of orange tones from the lights that you have in your house.

I would have also put some kind of 'phone sounds' from the people on the other line as you're speaking to them. Would have been funny to have a Russian sounded accent and a Chinese sounding accent, and then somehow you can speak both languages naturally.

Would have liked to see the fireworks added into the shot somehow - if it was daytime you could have used the blue of the sky as a chroma key and put them in afterwards. Also, why is the sky white? haha.

"Don't forget, I also bought love." < LOL at this line, great delivery.

Think you could still use a lot more variety in your shots, go to close ups when you need them - seems like very 'one take' kind of stuff that getting some more coverage could fix up nicely. Closer shots would also give you better audio, though this wasn't terrible.

What kind of camera are you shooting on?

I give this entry a solid B-

AvatarEmmerek
Reviewed on November 2nd, 2009

Blank!

AvatarEmmerek
Reviewed on November 10th, 2009

^oops,
were shooting on a hitatchi HDDamera, it gets the job done, the fireworks was last minute stuff, we rushed this one... I'm not sure how to color correct stuff tho, i just recently found out how to use white balance on my camera. I think were getting slightly better each week tho,

AvatarEnvelopeGenerator
Reviewed on November 3rd, 2009

I like the idea in this one! It was a little slow-paced, but it was clever and funny too. "I bet you can't buy world peace... that's pretty expensive", that cracked me up! A few tips: you could definitely do with better lighting. Try and get some clamp lights or little 150W flood lights - just something a little more powerful than overhead room lighting. It will make your films look so much better! I guess you're just using the built-in mic on your camera? You could also invest in a shotgun microphone, it will improve your sound loads. But this film was promising, you guys have got talent and you're both surprisingly good at acting! There's potential here and I'm looking forward to seeing more from you guys.

Avatarloveislbind2all
Reviewed on November 19th, 2009

oooh geee this is loonnng. Well I'll bare with it. Good over the shoulder shot (something that i didn't use into my films until AFTER i got into film school, cuz i'm retarted). This could use some more medium shots, that would also help with the audio because of the room echo. This was a pretty good story. Haha I liked the ending. But OF COURSE you can buy Megan Fox! What do you think Michael Bay's been doing?

AvatarJesseGilbertFilms
Reviewed on November 22nd, 2009

I like the idea on this one. But during the conversations I wish you guys would have cut to more of a close up of the one speaking and edited the conversation to be a little more tight for more of a argumentative feel to it. Its a small detail, but makes it so much more golden. :D

AvatarBonerpop
Reviewed on November 23rd, 2009

OH, man. WHITE BALANCE. Everything is orange. Good acting for kids. Bet you hate hearing that shit, huh? Weird choice of music here. Ha. I like the idea about buying a some chick off the internet. Been funnier if it was from some Russian mail order bride website, or something. Eh...the world peace part is getting boring. I wish you would have taken it more into the direction of the whore. Some of these shots have some loud background noise. I think it is your computer on the other side of the bed. Be careful of that. Ha. End is really good when he is kicking the money. You guys really need to light these shots and set your white balance. Just grab a lamp or shop light out of another room. The end was good, but I wish you would have skipped the whole World Peace part and jumped right to the Megan Fox. It was overall too long. Good acting, though, and fairly enjoyable.

AvatarBryan Fox
Reviewed on November 27th, 2009

Sorry I didn't get the chance to review this when this was new. Here's your review. You look like you're a really young group of people, so take the harshness of this review as a compliment that you can compete with the big boys.

Sound: Poor transition from the music in the beginning. The vocals were a little echoey which was most likely caused by your hardwood floor. If possible, try finding a carpeted room to shoot in. The transition to the music in the credits was also poorly executed. Your credits were so short they would have been better silent. 2/5

Lighting: Really poor. Your camera needed it's iris opened up more along with some more light on your talent. Look up some 3 point lighting tutorials on the net for some help on this. Everything is also too yellow which means your cam needs white balancing. 1/5

Filmfights Criteria: I don't remember the time limit but I'm pretty sure it was below 4:30. You definitely tackled the topic of what money can and cannot buy in a humorous fashion. 4/5

Script/Story: Definitely cute and funny. Like the part when he's on the phone negotiating with foreign countries. The gag at the end was also cute. 4/5

Acting/Choreography: Great for the most part for people so young. Your lead seems like he's overreacting just a little too much here and there. 4/5

Pacing/Style: For most of the movie, it's quite well executed. As said before, the opening and ending was too short to really make use of music. 4/5

Overall: If you're as young as you seem, you've definitely got a jump on the rest of us. I never touched any sort of video editing until I was 15 and never studied it as much as I should have. Your major flaws are production value and there's a ton of good tutorials on Youtube in regards to lighting and sound that you should look at when it comes to filmmaking. Keep up the hard work, take some advice of the more seasoned filmfighters, and you can be a force to be reckoned with. 2.5/5 (not an average)

AvatarVolatile Productions
Reviewed on June 7th, 2010

Why wasn't this in the HWs? Lighting and sound arn't yhe most important things in a film and I think you kept to the time limit. It was really funny guys - lots of the dialogue felt very natural and the whole world peace bit is hilarious! I know it's ages since this fight but I have no idea why you didn't get into the heavyweights!

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