[video] My Project - Speedcubing

[Chuberchuckee]

Pretty good video. I like the beginning.

If you're looking for some contructive criticism, I have some.

First of all, music. Put in some ambient background music. Total silence makes the video seem... empty. Trust me, music works wonders. I think that's why the lecturer found it "boring."

Second, lighting. I know it's too late at this stage, but the lighting at some parts of the interviews was too dark and made certain parts have a sad and lonely mood.

Just keep that in mind when you make any other videos; music and lighting will strongly affect the atmosphere and mood of your video.

 

[Edam]

lights were heavily affected by what we could take out of the equipment stores, for joey we were able to take out a set of gullivers which are about 300w and dimmable, but at all other times we were limited to blondes or redheads which i think are about 2Kw and 600w-1Kw respectivly and they would have been complete overkill for what we wanted. So i'm choosing to blame the universitys poor amounts of useful lights for that. Got lucky that most of the stuff in france was bright anyway so didn't need to much extra lighting except for in the hotel rooms.

music's always a nightmare, they complain if we use it saying that it doesn't work or it hasn't enough 'meaning' behind it. But i think it'll be something i look into for the next edit (when it eventually surfaces)

a lot of what i've been told is trying to make it much more stylistic and filmic than it is. I was told to essentially turn it into a 'heist' piece, where charlie is going over to win at whatever costs. make more suspence and draw interest through that with editing accordingly but it just didn't work for me like that, I wanted to convey the community much more than the competetive element and while some parts might be slightly set up or staged (OH with a banana springs to mind) it still fits in with the core of what i was showing, rather than fabricating a massive storyline whereby charlie wanted to go over to win, winning was everything etc..

The white balance is also a bit of in various shots, ideally i'd take it into something like colour to fix all of that but i haven't got anywhere near enough time to be able too.

 

[teller]

Excellent.

You're no Martin Scorsese, but we need more documentary footage out here in the Wild West of Cubing, so thumbs way up.

 

[GermanCube]

This video made me think of Cubers: The Documentary. I heard of it, but never watched it. Is there a possibilty to watch it somewhere?


Alex


P.S.: I could watch your video now, nice one !!!