Devin Gorton Film Reel - ID# 92

Homewood-Flossmoor

Cinematography

Entry Description

Devin Gorton's film reel from all of 2019 and the early parts of 2020.

Copyright Info

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdfcUBhRlgs

Recent Teacher Comments

• 4/22 10:47 pm - Pros - Lots of good things to point out here! The camera work is stellar; smooth, sharp, and strong compositions throughout. I appreciate your propensity for faces and ability to capture emotion with ease. Nice mix of regular and slow motion shot, natural and artificial lighting environments. There is a wide variety of environments on display and they are all executed well. The texture in the shot where it is snowing is especially strong. Cons - Not many cons in this piece. Your interview shots are probably the weakest component to this piece because they are not consistently dynamic, but strong nonetheless.
• 4/14 12:06 pm - +Image quality is superb in some of these shots. I particularly like the shot where the snow is falling +You have developed a style as a cinematographer which is fantastic +You have a wide variety of content that you have filmed--looks like music video, narrative, documentary, sports.

Judge 1

Positives: Great diversity in your shots and lighting situations. Lighting at :13, :23, and :59 especially look great, well lit and framed.

Improvements: Shots at 1:13 look alright but the lighting looks a bit flat and theatrical, could be improved. The shots of the kids on the couch from the film at :21 look a bit flat in the lighting. In general the quality of the shots from this film don't match the quality from the work in the reel.

Judge 2

Positives: Good choice of music. Nice variety of shots. Good use of slow motion. 00:07 nice opening shots. start off strong on your reel. the challenge is to make your entire reel live up to the promise of your opening shot. 0:41 nice silouette with color

Improvements: 0:27 I feel this is a throwaway shot. you can give us better. 0:50 subject needs to be lit. Best wishes in all future endeavors. #makemovieshappen

Judge 3

Positives: The kid with a big smile, and the huge black puffy hood on, that was absolutely beautifully captured, well done. I’d be very interested in seeing what stories you could tell through music videos, I feel like you have an eye for it.

Improvements: All right, so the kid sitting on the couch, it’s shot beautifully, and then a few clips later he’s running down the street, it’s grainy, it’s probably shot on a different camera, consistency is key. If you jump between two different cameras, your film is going to have a different look and texture in every shot, and the audience is going to notice that, and when they do notice that, it’s going to take them out of your film. Lighting, I can’t stress it enough, take your time, as much as you need, and light your shot correctly Aside from all this, you should be very proud of your work

Judge 4

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