I don't know how helpful this will be, but I think you should check out Dario Argento's "Suspiria" and "Inferno," which both are dark fairy tales. They're horror movies, which obviously is not what you're doing, but in terms of tone, they might help you either define what you're looking for, or even what to steer clear of. I have them both if you want to borrow them. The lighting on your buildings and the way you present the city as an unbalanced, quietly threatening dream space reminds me of Argento's "Inferno" big time.
As I said in class, the landscapes and objects you shoot seem to emote. And that's good.
The characters and scenarios you've placed them in get in the way of the latter.
So the solution, in my mind, is to either 1) radically alter the characters and scenarios (bring some maturity to them), or 2) tell the story differently by forgoing the characters and scenarios. There are other options for sure (I'm experiencing deja vu ((without the accents))... for real, not just because we've talked about this previously; I'm feeling faint), but those are the 2 that immediately slap my face.
Make some decisions and get shoooooting!!!!!! You can pull this off.
you did a good job of incorporating your "still" footage and a story, but this seems like to tight of an edit to have already. You have all next semester for that, you should focus on nailing the story and all the shots you could possibly need right now. There's not a lot of depth right now, and I think you should focus on that, rather than a rough edit.
You seem to have a good eye for composition and some very interesting shots. As we talked about in class, I would still encourage you to narrow your focus and follow something that we can feel. If they stay archetypes and multiple, it can get to be too much diversity and distraction. You have some very interesting core ideas. I would use your little sister to lead us through a core scenario. And go crazy in your shooting. I agree with Steve that the weirder the better in a situation like this. Not necessarily on the sick front, but on the visual and audio front.
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I don't know how helpful this will be, but I think you should check out Dario Argento's "Suspiria" and "Inferno," which both are dark fairy tales. They're horror movies, which obviously is not what you're doing, but in terms of tone, they might help you either define what you're looking for, or even what to steer clear of. I have them both if you want to borrow them. The lighting on your buildings and the way you present the city as an unbalanced, quietly threatening dream space reminds me of Argento's "Inferno" big time.
As I said in class, the landscapes and objects you shoot seem to emote. And that's good.
The characters and scenarios you've placed them in get in the way of the latter.
So the solution, in my mind, is to either 1) radically alter the characters and scenarios (bring some maturity to them), or 2) tell the story differently by forgoing the characters and scenarios. There are other options for sure (I'm experiencing deja vu ((without the accents))... for real, not just because we've talked about this previously; I'm feeling faint), but those are the 2 that immediately slap my face.
Make some decisions and get shoooooting!!!!!! You can pull this off.
you did a good job of incorporating your "still" footage and a story, but this seems like to tight of an edit to have already. You have all next semester for that, you should focus on nailing the story and all the shots you could possibly need right now. There's not a lot of depth right now, and I think you should focus on that, rather than a rough edit.
You seem to have a good eye for composition and some very interesting shots. As we talked about in class, I would still encourage you to narrow your focus and follow something that we can feel. If they stay archetypes and multiple, it can get to be too much diversity and distraction. You have some very interesting core ideas. I would use your little sister to lead us through a core scenario. And go crazy in your shooting. I agree with Steve that the weirder the better in a situation like this. Not necessarily on the sick front, but on the visual and audio front.
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