Thread: Opus: A Short Film

Quote: Originally Posted by Wooh This actually bothered me a ton as well. It really took me out of it. That's another effect of having only two weeks to make a movie, and get original music composed for it, and shooting the film before the music is composed. Though, thankfully, he's actually conducting perfectly in time, it's off because of the editing.

Quote: Originally Posted by FireWire280 [Edit: The actual lighting may have been our fault though, none of us had worked in a backlit set before, and we were shooting on film. I think we did ok for what really was an experiment in going balls out for an assignment.] Yeah, makin' movies is a trial-and-error learning process for sure. As long as you and your crew came away knowing more than you knew going in, then the experiment was a...

I really enjoyed it. EDIT: the shots of the girl completely made of ribbon didn't really jive, might have worked better with some more unraveling shots. very minor issue though.

Quote: Originally Posted by DannoHung Second, I'm not a musical expert, but it didn't look like the baton movements were really corresponding to the tempo of the music and there was certainly no cueing of the sections going on. This sort of combines to make your actor look like he's a bit of a moron waving his arms about. This actually bothered me a ton as well. It really took me out of it.

Awesome short film dude I liked it a lot. Didn't David Cronenberg and Rachel McAdams go to York also? Sounds like you're in a great program, good luck to you!

These are nitpicky things as I am unqualified to speak about the cinematography or anything like that: details sell the idea. You start off with a futuristic Minority Report-ish computer interface, but for what your character is doing, this interface doesn't make any sense. If you watch Minority Report again, you'll see that the touch interface was for arranging and controlling the playback of video footage, his motions were directed...