23rd April 2005, 4:41 AM
Okay. Vegas Video is prosumer but it is NOT A TOY :D
I just saw them both, first the walfart one. You seriously need to spice it up with something. Add some captions or something, try to tell some kind of story. The attacking smile was great. Throwing in some captions of what the people are doing with a freeze frame would be great. "This guy wants to find Swamp Thing on DVD..." "here's someone fucking with my camera..." etc
WTF is indeed just that, I think it would be funnier if you remove the graphic of the robotic rabbit and the dialogue of "what the fuck" so that it's just you walking down the hall way and staring at the floor, but that's just my opinion.
It's also a good idea that when you make your titles, let them stay up as long as it would take a person to read them. In other words, dont have titles as long as your film. :)
You should also check on your audio compression. try boosting some of the higher frequencies and see if the sound effects can be somewhere in the minus of the dialogue but just above your room tone. Some stereo mixing wouldn't be a bad touch either. Just simple pans, you dont need 5.1 cross hatches or something.
The most simple rule is that whatever you put on the final edit before you render, look it over and ask yourself "what will people be thinking when they watch this?". Then it's just a matter of finding the right images and sounds to make them think what you want.
Not a bad effort though overall.
I just saw them both, first the walfart one. You seriously need to spice it up with something. Add some captions or something, try to tell some kind of story. The attacking smile was great. Throwing in some captions of what the people are doing with a freeze frame would be great. "This guy wants to find Swamp Thing on DVD..." "here's someone fucking with my camera..." etc
WTF is indeed just that, I think it would be funnier if you remove the graphic of the robotic rabbit and the dialogue of "what the fuck" so that it's just you walking down the hall way and staring at the floor, but that's just my opinion.
It's also a good idea that when you make your titles, let them stay up as long as it would take a person to read them. In other words, dont have titles as long as your film. :)
You should also check on your audio compression. try boosting some of the higher frequencies and see if the sound effects can be somewhere in the minus of the dialogue but just above your room tone. Some stereo mixing wouldn't be a bad touch either. Just simple pans, you dont need 5.1 cross hatches or something.
The most simple rule is that whatever you put on the final edit before you render, look it over and ask yourself "what will people be thinking when they watch this?". Then it's just a matter of finding the right images and sounds to make them think what you want.
Not a bad effort though overall.