Arsenic & Old Lace - ID# 116

Wheaton North

Division: AA

School Promotion

Entry Description

In a short promotion for our school's Fall Play, a young man is served a beverage. Upon drinking it, he begins to realize that it has been poisoned. He over-dramatically begins to fall back in his chair, as he spits the drink into the air.

Recent Teacher Comments

• 4/6 3:50 pm - Good use of music for this promo. Not much video and/or dialogue, but it intrigued me - and that’s what you want from a promo.

Judge 1

Positives: Lighting - Nicely lit. The lights show up in the glass, but it mostly reads natural. Subject's space in the environment is clear. Camera - Shot progression is great. Establish what's going on and move on in.

Improvements: Editing - The ghosting on the face in the close-up distracts.

Judge 2

Positives: the music fit with dramatic slow shots. warping screenshots to simulate slo motion worked naturally

Improvements: attention to detail, tripod/light can be seen in reflection of glass in first shot.

Judge 3

Positives: Nice slow-mo effect! Nice use of camera angles!

Improvements: You could have used a different lighting effect for the close up of the wine glass. I was obviously an LED light from the set. Maybe position it so it isn't as prominent in the glass. To make it more believable, you could have shot it without the smirk on the kids face.

Judge 4

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