Some players under represented: I agree there was not enough footage of the better players who didn't quite get their own sections. This was partially because I spent more time filming Phil than everyone else, and also I decided only to do 2 songs of non-section players. I wish I had done 3 songs but time didn't allow.
Slowmo on blurry whirls and the moves: To be honest I wanted to edit to the music as much as possible, and a lot of the footage I had of players their biggest moves were blurry whirls or they were the, so I just went with what I had. I can't say I noticed many the moves when I was editing but I guess I was only watching the footage superficially to edit to it appropreatly, not really looking at the form of the players that much.
I may have 'overused' slo-mo by a footbag players standards, but I put it in as much as possible without ruining the pace of strings too much because I hope many non-footbag players will end up seeing this production, and slo-mo is great for non-footbaggers and it's not so painful to see a few slo-mo blurry whirls for a footbag player I think.
Camera angles: Dunno if I have mentioned this, but this is something I definatly want to work on!
Jeremy scratching his nuts: Lol at alex's house we sat round for hours watching the day's footage at nights and we noticed Jeremy has a real habbit of scratchin the old jewels, I guess he must have genital warts or something
Home made transitions/effects: I will definatly have to spend time next time I edit playing with keyframed transitions (like Kevin's one) and keyframed effects (like the NZ logo/zoom to lensflare). Seems like everyone else likes them as much as I was pleased with how they came out
Showing drops: I tried to show as few drops as possible, but at the same time I wanted to show as much props as possible because props just make footbag cool and show it's culture so well. The problem I had was if I cut from the end of someones string to them getting props, it looked strange because I wasn't showing the end (drop) of their string.
Phil intro (shakey camera: Yeah I tried to get this as painless as possible (not ffing the sound etc), I even tried cutting the ffed bit out but it didn't fit right, and it was too classic having phil say "you're late" to cut the whole clip out
Credits font: Yes it's the default premiere font, I feel the same way about the WMM default font
. I will keep in mind next time to change it. The thing is it's pretty good, readable, not tacky, not hideous.
This is great
i'm going to document all this feedback and my responces and read it all before I tackle my next big production (Aus nats 07?).
If anyone else has a review or feedback i'm always willing for more!
DVD copies of this video with individual sections as well as the full movie included will be availible in a month or so when I get round to slapping it together!
Guess it's all opinion.
