7D Shot on 7D - A mock action gameshow like Survivor set in the 1800's

I'm sure that was fun to make. If I were to make only one constructive criticism about it, I would consider losing the words that pop-up all the time. If you see a guy killed, it's redundant to say "He was killed." We saw it. Maybe just put "The Irishman" or "The Sea Captain" when the scenes change... to clarify who we're watching.
 
Great job. There's only a couple things amiss about this near masterwork. (1) Aesthetic consistency and (2) Scenario coherence, these are intertwined and fixing one helps fix the other. The editing and music are spot on and super sharp.

1. The aesthetic being consistently 1800's plays up the absurdity of a Suvivor style show taking place in the 1800's. As it stands now the time frame is distractingly ambiguous, how the audience knows its the 1800's is that it says so once really quick in a very non-1800's looking title card sequence, the editing and music give it the great energy just the visuals don't evoke the 1800's the same way era specific pen and ink and old tyme newspaper font would.

2. The scenario is a lil fuzzy only because the info cards in the beginning are oddly written, are these men in the competition part of the Gentlemen's Gambling Club or unwilling pawns in their game? Rewriting the cards is easy; also there's a spelling error on the one about the boat. I think the Intervention style update text work great. Personally, its funnier to have them be pawns, maybe shoot some insert shots of some of the Gentlemen Gamblers on the sidelines watching though old tyme telescopes or opera glasses. If not then having the net worth of every player and not just Cobbler is a comedy opportunity and clarifies if they are Gentlemen members or not.

Also as an example of the 1800's aesthetic I downloaded and recolored the movie, from everything after the intro sequence, and reposted it on my vimeo, u can download it from there and just let me know on here so I can take it down.

I'm curious what everyone else has to say about the sepia 1800's aesthetic, is that a good idea to help make it more coherent or is the mis-mash of visual styles more entertaining? Was anyone else confused?
 
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