SHORT: The Correspondent - Teaser/Trailer
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charliemcdanger
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Assuming you want criticism and feedback, here are my thoughts in no order.
-A good trailer should have some indication of the narrative or hook. I can't see any.
-The poster/still you included here bears no clear relation to the trailer. If that's the important guy, why isn't he in the trailer?
-There's an obvious (60s?) retro thing happening with the car and the amp and the outfits. But then the girl has a tribal tat on her forearm and the guy is straight out of Blade Runner. If this isn't a time travel film, I'm at a loss to explain it.
-I don't mind handheld shots. But you're using them while trying to create smooth, flowy, dreamy motion. The shot at 0:05 should be a smooth sideways tilt on a tripod, rather than jerky handheld.
-I like some of the visuals and would definitely give the film a chance.
Thanks for sharing and congratulations on being Finnish. I mean finished.
-A good trailer should have some indication of the narrative or hook. I can't see any.
-The poster/still you included here bears no clear relation to the trailer. If that's the important guy, why isn't he in the trailer?
-There's an obvious (60s?) retro thing happening with the car and the amp and the outfits. But then the girl has a tribal tat on her forearm and the guy is straight out of Blade Runner. If this isn't a time travel film, I'm at a loss to explain it.
-I don't mind handheld shots. But you're using them while trying to create smooth, flowy, dreamy motion. The shot at 0:05 should be a smooth sideways tilt on a tripod, rather than jerky handheld.
-I like some of the visuals and would definitely give the film a chance.
Thanks for sharing and congratulations on being Finnish. I mean finished.
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ReelWorksMedia
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I think its a story about an overworked radio repairman and the abandonment of the modern wash machine.
charliemcdanger
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Haha.
Round 2 of my thoughts:
When you do 2.35-to-1 and very serious music and very serious credits and very serious slo-mo, you're saying it's a Very Serious film. And so the little things start to matter. For instance, the off-kilter vertical lines in the 0:12 shot. Or the moire on the amp at 0:18. Or the misspelled "Corrsepondent" on the credits.
Woody Allen screws up a ton of things in his films, but he doesn't pretend that they're Very Serious films. If you're doing Very Serious films, the details matter.