Film Review

  Today I had someone review our film and give me constructive criticism. The film has not been edited much besides cutting down some scenes and putting them in chronological order. Still, it was placed together so that it would be a smooth run-through. I asked my old friend from school if he could review it, and he agreed. He doesn't really have in-depth knowledge, but he does watch a lot of movies. I'm really grateful for him even though we haven't talked in some time he still pulled through for me. 

He had actually had a list of things we needed to fix. We face-timed so I wrote everything down below:

  • Bright strange lighting, it had a weird hue to it
  • The titles didn't fit into the scenes where they were placed
  • The scenes didn't blend together that well, needs transitions 
  • The music was just not living up to the horror genre. 
  • The sound was just boring and didn't have a good scare factor
  • The first half was a bit shaky and blurry
  • Looks a bit tacky and corny, not realistic
I'm not looking forward to how much work this will be but I know the outcome will be amazing. I am happy that none of these changes will require us to reshoot which is what I thought we would have to do originally. Audio issues are my strong suit so I am confident that they will work out and make our film scary. I want to start on this as soon as possible so we can have a lot of time to work. The rest of the issues are all problems that will be addressed in the normal routine of editing. 





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