Liminal Spaces - ID# 107
Lyons Township
Cinematography
Entry Description
This is a cinematography reel featuring my trip to the Wyman-Gordon powerplant.
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- 4/25 9:50 am - Audacious use of quiet still images to open up the piece. Too often folks are relying on shiny objects like drones and gimbals. Some of the shots suffer from over or underexposure. While the music and sound design help (they should really serve in the background in this category), the piece does not move, or have forward thrust. It has a certain "sameness" through it - an assembly of shots from a very mysterious, cool place. Both you and this location have enormous potential. Write a script and use this location and your experience there to tell a story!
- 4/19 2:56 pm - PROS - Nice location choice; it provided a lots of interesting compositions, which you found and designed nicely, as well as provided good texture for your shots. The shots with visible moisture (:12, :25, :46, :48) tend to stand out the most, as well as the shots with the graffiti, because of its color contrast to the gray-toned cement structures. Although be careful with the graffiti; this was close to a DQ because of the message on the wall at 0:33. CONS - The beginning of the reel was strong and well composed. As the video progressed, you failed to show the viewer anything new from both a compositional and demonstration of skill perspective. Some shots would have benefitted from a tripod, others could have used the addition of artificial light or bounce in order to avoid the stark contrast of the sun against the unlit interior spaces. Failure to do this gave the feel of more point and shoot randomness as the video progressed past its strong opening. Your eye for strong composition stood out. Continue to develop that and base your work samples on that.
- 4/17 4:50 pm - Interesting subject and the opening 30 seconds of shots were well composed, well lit, and interesting, but after going inside without proper lighting or exposure it doesn't compete well in this category. Next time bring battery-powered LED lights and continue to provide strong points of view and I think this has a lot of potentials.
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