***** stars

I normally dock stars for use of uncredited music, but the one track used here sounded homemade, so I'll let it off.

To the film itself:

Very educational, I agreed with most of the points - although it's sometimes simplistic to say things like "this is a hero weeping tears - we give him some dignity here by using the camera below his eye level".

It could easily be a villain whose motives are being explored (maybe they lost a loved one and have been consumed by revenge).

The pacing example (part 2) went on too long at the end with the repeated stabbing shots - it was better than the first effort but still too long in my opinion.

I agree with the notion that it's about selling to the viewer the emotional message. That's why - as we see in Quantum of Solace - too many closeups, far from taking you into the action, merely result in too much confusion and the message becomes lost. A mixture of wideshots and closeups are needed so that the viewer is emotionally involved and also knows exactly what's going on.

Anyway - an excellent film. Very educational - I learned quite a lot from it.

**** stars

A disturbing film with a couple of problems.

I thought the narrator was being ironic when we see a male character (who I assumed to be the best friend) having sex with the female (presumed to be his best friend's wife). Later, we find out that the character on the screen was actually the narrator's friend after all. Poor character introduction caused that one.

The acting during the crucial confrontation was very flat and uninteresting. It would also have helped if it didn't all sound like it was still in narrator mode. Maybe having the lines delivered further away from the mic would have made the distinction more clear.

On the plus side, the story was well told and often visually very striking.

***** stars

A funny film, very well acted and well paced. writing which successfully packed some cracking jokes into the 2 and a half minutes.

The gothic horror stereotypes were played to perfection.

**** stars

Not sure what happened at the end there, and for a lot of this film it looked like it was just going to be a series of pranks on zombies using teleportation and telekinesis.

But it got pretty witty in the way the superpowers were used, and I saw that most of this film was a glimpse into the future of what might go wrong.

Interesting bit of silent film with Fable music backing it.

***** stars

It was 4-stars for most of this, I liked the guitar and the way it changed riffs at key moments - it looked like it could have used a VO narration as well.

But the special effects at the end were fantastic! They raised this film up to top marks.

**** stars

Just a bunch of chicks clubbing - but it was done really well.

I tried to get a strobe effect for one of my films, but on export it came out painfully clunky and slow. I wonder what the secret is...

This film reminds me of a programme they used to put on TV very early on a Sunday morning (like 3AM) - basically, they just took the cameras around the nightclubs and all it was was simply watching the clubbers dancing. This film evoked that atmosphere in spades.