n99 wrote:
A) There are alot of recams and cuts, without most of bringing anything new to the table. So no extra information is gained from it, and it doesn't add to the feel or visuals. It does sometimes, like on cloud vs. M.I, but I saw no need for these things to be used so heavily.
The main reason I had to do so much recamming was that the spectator demos (which by the way were the only demos recorded excluding the finals) didn't have much contents to see. I mean the spectator was most of the time tracking wrong players and such...
By the way, I was using "free mouse controlled recamming", which I haven't seen in other movies yet.
C) Sound was the worst part for me. I'm used to AQ2movies not having my exact musical choice but this was horrible in my book, and since there was no in-game sound at all (which can be nice if used properly, imo) I simply turned the sound of after awhile.
What goes for soundtrack, my main goal was to make it "wide", like everyone got something to listen. I mean, there are included many different stylished songs. I don't believe in using music "I'd like to listen generally" but more like selecting ones which fit in the picture. I liked to have an own independet theme in every matches.
D) I saw a couple of nice frags, but it was mostly run-of-the-mill m4 work. I don't really mind this if there are other aspects of the movie that warrant this, see below.
Yeah, that was the first problem to solve before I even began to do this. "What kind of fragging movie should I make since the raw material isn't really consisted of selection of nice and visual frags but rather professional playing?" So I decided to go for it, make an story based fragging movie which would reflect the feeling of FOC2004.
Few things I did like:
A) I'm pretty much unfamiliar with, for instance, Apr's tactics on riots. As they lost with incredible numbers, it would have been good for me to get an idea what went wrong.
In Riot, I didn't actually sought any more than the feeling that Apprime is literally lost... so I ended up to show how they are killed one after the another.
Well, maybe this just isn't my thing, but I hope I structured my critique in a manner that could be considered constructive.
Yeah, thanks for your feedback, it was fine. I really like to talk about my projects, explain things, share thoughts and such. Just keep writing feedbacks ppl, they always make sending movies to the net worthwhile.
