Dance Dance Addiction - ID# 508

New Trier

Division: AA

Seven Day Challenge

Entry Description

Girl is addicted to DDR. Credits in video description.

Recent Teacher Comments

• 3/14 5:06 pm - This video has been reposted ID#511 is the correct version of this video. PLEASE DO NOT WASTE your time reviewing this version. I could not figure out how to delete it from the site.

Judge 1

Positives: Great use of sound! All of your sound effects were really clean - especially when used with close up shots (for example, whenever we saw the keys) It really helped to exaggerate what was happening on screen. The use of music to transition in and out of the club was also great. The dance club lighting was great! Looks awesome. Really felt like such a juxtaposition to everything else.The cinematography overall was strong. Great use of closeups to really focus on the characters.

Improvements: It seemed like you had a few issues in post-production. First of all, your second shot has the Premiere Warp Stabilizer error graphic still on the shot! That shot also felt like it lasted way too long. It became obvious that you hadn't timed out the length of the VO announcement to the amount of time your actress waited when you were filming. I feel like I wanted a stronger resolution to the story. Your main character had previously been a dance addict, had recovered, but then returned to her addiction. But I wasn't sure what the consequences were of her being a dance addict - it didn't feel like the stakes were high enough for it to really matter that she had given in and gone back.

Judge 2

Positives: The film didn't take too long to show the story. I didn't loose its pace, which often happens with short films. There was a good variety of shots covering the action.

Improvements: From technical perspective, there could be a lot of improvements. It seemed that the filmmakers decided some sort of dolly to get smoother shots, but it may have been not the best decision since it didn't smooth out the motion, rather made it shaky and made it hard for the operator to control the framing. There were several issues with the post production: it was sometimes hard to hear the other character speaking. The second shot in the film had a warp stabilizer that wasn't properly rendered - so it had "Click Analyze to begin" message across the screen.

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