New 3 minute Teaser for Upcoming Short. Check it out.

[King of Limbs]

The full video is roughly 15 min.

Let me know what ya think of it so far.

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[media]http://vimeo.com/18331766[/media]

[dude2193]

Not too bad, im guessing its a student project or something ?
What camera did you shoot on?

Something i noticed is that you didn't use any lighting at all, and shot at night. Thats a bad combination man.
Invest in a reflector they're like $30. A prime example where one could have been used is the opening shot with the man on the bench, the wall behind him was visually brighter than his face, and drew my attention away from his performance, since it looked like there was a light above him having a reflector to bounce some of that on his face would have helped allot.

I noticed some breathing coming from the cameraman, something to be mindful of.
Also, if your panning, a $30 tripod and the ol' rubber band trick make MUCH better results than hand held. [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj6fMcJ18aA"]See Here.[/URL]

Other than that good job, best of luck.

[King of Limbs]

thanks for the comment!

I do not like using reflectors or any other kinda of artificial light, it doesn't sit right with the way i film things. I like the feeling that you have to search for the action in a shot to keep you paying attention, like in real life, the action wont always be lit up center stage.

Also where was there breathing in the shot? just so i can fix that.

thanks though really!

[dude2193]

No offence, but in all honesty "searching for the action" or any of that crap needs to be addressed, you dont just go out and film, you follow some rules which help you tell a story, one of those rules is proper lighting which is 100x more important than how good your camera is and sits just behind good sound and proper story/character development.

Also breathing is at: 0:58 (its not breathing per se, but i can hear the camera make a noise)

Also one more tip for Vimeo, if your cropping to an aspect ratio as you are, you dont have to bake in the black bars, Vimeo player actually conforms to the source footage aspect so theres no black bars, so next time just export it as cropped.