The Stepmother

The stepmother is complete and uploaded. I hope you all enjoy it. It was great working with such talented people who help make this little film possible.
 
This is a tough one... I felt like there was potential (and I really liked your poster), but the movie failed for me in a lot of ways. I think the editing and sound definitely needed work, and the story-telling was a bit confusing. The humming was creepy, but a bit overdone by the end of the movie. I give you props for a good effort, so keep working at it!
 
Yeah, this film didn't work for me.... Seriously all I got was audio and a green screen? I was viewing it in Quicktime.
 
I think one of the problems is that you had so many characters that it was difficult to get invested in any one person.

The shots felt so tight that I almost felt smothered in them, but I do understand where you were going and what you were trying to accomplish, but less is more.

Help me to care about one character and then I can get invested in the story.
 
Hi Arturo, just finished watching your film. There was a lot I did enjoy about it. But the sound on the dialog was very distracting. As you cut from angle to angle, you also cut from audio track to audio track and there were huge differences in the way each sounded. If your sound man captured room tone, you can go back and fix this. Or at the very least add longer crossfades on your soundtrack layers between cuts.

I thought the acting was solid, and the little girl was creepy. It leaned a little bit much towards the exorcist with all the talk of the girls tests and the priests talking about how long it take to get an exorcism approved, but I like that kind of stuff. I think if you go in a rework the audio for the dialog you will have a vast improvement on the impact of the overall film!

Good story, good acting, good ending! :)
 
EditPhish said:
This is a tough one... I felt like there was potential (and I really liked your poster), but the movie failed for me in a lot of ways. I think the editing and sound definitely needed work, and the story-telling was a bit confusing. The humming was creepy, but a bit overdone by the end of the movie. I give you props for a good effort, so keep working at it!
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Thank you for the comments. This was my first time editing with this program. I simply ran out of time with the sound. I will keep your comments in mind for next film.
 
TMerry said:
Hi Arturo, just finished watching your film. There was a lot I did enjoy about it. But the sound on the dialog was very distracting. As you cut from angle to angle, you also cut from audio track to audio track and there were huge differences in the way each sounded. If your sound man captured room tone, you can go back and fix this. Or at the very least add longer crossfades on your soundtrack layers between cuts.

I thought the acting was solid, and the little girl was creepy. It leaned a little bit much towards the exorcist with all the talk of the girls tests and the priests talking about how long it take to get an exorcism approved, but I like that kind of stuff. I think if you go in a rework the audio for the dialog you will have a vast improvement on the impact of the overall film!

Good story, good acting, good ending! :)
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Thank you. I guess those are just bad mistakes for a new editor. Your comments will help make my next film better.
 
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