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    Green Screen Project

    in Please Critique My Work

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    Your chroma key falls apart really badly at about 1:53 when the boys are pushing the girl around. It looks like it was caused by her shadow falling on your green screen. This could have been avoided if you had blocked your actors further from the screen.

     

    You've also got some "floating" people at around 3:03 caused by the camera reframing and the background not tracking that movement. This can be easily solved by using tape to make some white or black crosses on your green screen. You can then use these as reference marks when you make your key and match the background to any camera movement.

     

    Another thing I noticed is that all your keyed in backgrounds with walls are created so that the walls are perpendicular to the camera's angle of view. It really limits the depth and perspective of your images. It just looks like your actors are standing 6 feet in front of a wall (the green screen, which they are), rather than creating the illusion that they are in a real environment.

     

    You've got a few nice shots. Overall, there's too many white shirts and hats blowing out and not enough highlights on the actors' faces. Other shots have shadows that are too dark and hide a lot of detail that I would like to see. The combination of the hats and top-lighting is a major cause of this. You either need to put your key in at a lower angle or get some fill on the actors' faces. The few color shots at the end are okay, but look kind of like they are just lit with the room's ceiling lamp. The final shot of the mom looks flat in color and underexposed in B&W.

     

    The sound is pretty bad throughout. Some of it is due to bad recording and some is due to a bad mix. The opening scene is a good example. At one point the detective kid talks from off camera and it sounds like he wasn't mic'd and his voice was just picked up from the mic of the kid on screen. Through that whole scene the music was noticeably louder than the actors' voices and at points made it difficult to hear what was being said. In the color scene, there is a very noticeable hum. It sounds like it might be room tone being played too loudly. The scenes in between aren't much better.

     

    A final note, your opening credit music is "The Ecstasy of Gold" by Ennio Morricone from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" with a beat laid under it, however, you don't credit Ennio Morricone anywhere. In fact you give credit for the score to two other people. What you are doing is STEALING. As long as you're not making any money from this video you probably don't need to get rights from the copyright holder (though, if you want to be fully protected and completely legit about it, you should). However, you MUST credit Ennio Morricone or the creator of any piece of original work if you use their work in a video. To do otherwise is completely disrespectful.

     

    Hey, thanks for the critique. Yeah, our sound was the overall problem at the end of our screening and we noticed that, it's a very bad mix job as I have no idea about anything in sound, yet still did the post sound mix. I also began noticing alot of rips and leaks as I went through it again. Thanks for the suggestions about lighting the actors, we really should have incorporated light at the bottom. We did this project after 5 months of 'film school' so alot of people on the crew don't have too much experience other than those 5 months, as well as really RUSHED it.

     

    About the musical scores, as far as I know it doesn't breach copyright infringement because it is sampled then chopped and other things were added to it. I didn't even realize it's from Ennio Morricone. The tracks came from a friend who produces hip hop beats that has been bought by notable artists like lil wayne and gym class heroes. I don't think it's STEALING per say, it's like the issue with Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer and the current fab in the hip hop scene with sampling music tracks, but that's my opinion. I guess it's up to the entertainment lawyer if I were to pitch this.

     

    Anyways thanks for the feedback and suggestions, appreciate it.

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