2nd Place :: Division AA

Buddy

Maine East

Movie Trailer

Entry Description

A single mother buys her daughter a life-size stuffed dog for her birthday. She regrets buying this gift, as she finds there is something unsettling about the toy.

Judge 1

Positives: very well done and moved along nicely. Great choices of clips to give enough info to make it suspenseful. I also liked the underlying sense of humor. music worked well and good job editing and use of title clips, etc.

Improvements: no feedback here. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Judge 2

Positives: Great idea for the trailer sequence. Nice progression of disorder and fear caused by the dog...

Improvements: Dog casting: the dog itself is not that scary to cause the dramatic emotions ... there is a bit of a disconnect... I wish to see more drama in the end...

Judge 3

Positives: I thought the echo effect on the name of the dog worked well to transition the movie from "happy" to "frightful". Acting was good. The scream at 1:21 with no sound was a good effect.

Improvements: I was not sure if the movie clip was suppose to be making fun of the contemporary over-dramatic and "frightful" movies. Perhaps giving the "toy" a more life-like quality earlier on in the clip would have been helpful. When the dog go from being a "good" gift to a "bad" choice? What happened that brought about the change? It was not clear in the clip.