Please, tear me a new one

scharky

scharky

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Ok, so I DP'd a music video a couple months ago, and was also the editor along with the director. Like most of my work I'm never really happy with the way things come out, so please I need some honest opinions here. It would be preferable if you could just comment on the cinematography aspect of the video as I had nothing to do with the story or the music itself. WARNING, this video contains some violent images, so please watch at your own risk. The video is for a band called "Charlie Drown" and she is a self professed goth queen, so the video goes along with her act and we tired for a very B horror movie look. There is no preformance in this video, which is why I was interested in the project, but I'm just not sure if the imagery I was responsable for look all that good. Is the lighting good? Why can't I tell am I just numb to my work?

Here are a couple of links for you, an 11MB mp4 and a 30MB wmv.

http://www.stefweb.net/CDrown/BetaSwitch.mp4

http://www.stefweb.net/CDrown/Betaswitch.wmv

Thanks for your input it is much appreciated.
 
Nice work, I prefer the lighting later in the piece(more contrast). Early on it seems like it might have been shot flat and corrected in post. Some really nice angles and editing. I really have to nitpick to find anything too negative to say about it. The cut with the finger motioning the victim in could have been a little longer. What do you not like about it?
 
Man, it's 4Am, what am I doing up? Thanks prolost, all the coloring was done in Vegas, using curves, colorcorrector and secondary colorcorrector.
Bigmagic, I agree with you 100%, the first 20 seconds of the video kill me. What basically happend is that the video was scheduled for a one day shoot, at about 4:30Pm it became apparent that that wasn't going to happen, too many lighting setups and different location setups. We shot the opening at the end of the first day, the crew was tired, and my exterior lighting was diminishing. It was really rushed and everyone was tired, I shot it thinking that we would be able to re shoot it since we didn't have time to do it correctly, but that wasn't the case.

I guess for the rest of the video, I want to know if the lighting looks natural. Too me I know where every light was placed so it drives me crazy. This was supposed to look dark and lit overhead by a surgical type light (at least for the present tense settings). I just don't feel it looks professional. Compared to alot of the commercials I have shot recently, to me this just doesn't look good. maybe I've just looked at it too much, we've been editing for the last month and a half.
Can anyone pick out lighting faults, ie, the light just doesn't work here, or doesn't make sense, I know there is something out of place I just don't know what it is. I swear I'm not a mascochist, I just want to know if it is me being crazy or if there really is something just not right about the video.
 
Sickness. I loved it. The color was awesome. What are your settings for the mp4? It looked great streaming. Plus a small file.
 
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