Trapped

[jaket]

Here is a movie I shot for a fellow classmate in the film class I took this last semester. I was trying to compress out to .mov for all of the mac users out there, but I am compressing out of vegas and I think I'm a little restricted or just don't know what the best settings are for rendering a .mov out of vegas.

Any suggestions would be great.

until then here is a .wmv

http://hv20.info/yopu/Trapped.wmv

I edited in FCP 5 at the school (I wanted to learn FCP) I really enjoyed doing the project in FCP. I will eventually get a mac (when I have the money to get the system I want). But on the whole I think Vegas is a much more intuitive editing program, when comparing Vegas to FCP, (not the entire suite) Every FCP user I have met praises Sound Track Pro up and down, but honestly I felt that it was more of a short coming then an advantage, everything I did in STP I would of done on the vegas timeline without having to export my whole project. I didn't take advantage of motion or DVD studio pro, but I have seen some absolutely amazing work come out of both of those programs, so as a suite of programs I think FCP Studio is a much more powerful setup than Vegas, but that being said Vegas is a much more intuitive editing program IMHO.

HV20
.7 wide angle lens (SD)
Brevis35
Fig Rig
8" High-Res monitor (varizoom)
magic arm w/super clamp
tota/omni lights with umbrellas and gels.


Jake

 

[HBlack]

Thoughts as I watched it:
First title was boring, the shake in the first shot bugged me, I liked the scenes with the mother/child and thought they looked better than the rest of it in general, colours of the guy in the bathroom were boring and some CC would have helped, didn't like the handheld look when the woman entered, the transition in to the second mother/child scene with the music was slightly abrupt, the audio continuity was good in that nothing bothered me and it didn't change between cuts but the quality of the audio itself was somewhat lacking, the urgency of needing the punch bowl seemed a bit artificial, I thought you could have used the SHDOF of your Brevis setup a bit more often, didn't like the jump cut at 8:08, you had good actors and none of it seemed unnatural, that cockroach was a nice touch and it's good you bothered to find one, the fact that he was willing to touch his face after touching a cockroach yet couldn't open a door was odd, the music fit pretty well and the use of the heart beat sound effect wasn't annoying (as it often is), it was a good use of soft lighting and it looked natural if not a bit dark/flat in parts, the shot with his wife on the phone looked quite good, the phone seemed to ring for too long, seemed odd he didn't wrap his hand in his shirt to open the doorknob, I liked the fact you never saw the mother's face.

Overall, it was interesting and worth watching. Could have been shortened up a bit and made more visually interesting with better lighting, colour correction and camera movements, and there was room for improvement in the vocal audio quality.

Good job on it.

 

[Mcph55]

i liked it...

some of the shots were really good and some didn't do much for me.
I do think you need some CC on a lot of the shots plus one of the shots i saw the cameraman's shadow bigtime! you also could have cut out some major time.

the story was good, it hit home for me becasue i also suffer from OCD, at one point in my life it was almost as bad as that (but with different things). so it was nice to see somting like that portreyed on film and some of the stuff hit home.

however i do feel that in some aspects the disorder was trivialized and some of the behaviors didnt match up. the main thing for me was the ending.... i just was not convinced that he would have died, there were just to many incositancies in the story to lead up to that...

i also wasent convinced that he would be that bad just from his experiences as a child. yes you can develope habits like that form being taught, however the real roots of OCD come from a chemical inbalence in the brain and i feel that he wouldent have let himself die like that if thats how he got the disorder.

but hey im looking at it to hard, because i come from an insiders point of view!

overall really good!