El Salvador Cinematic - ID# 489
Vernon Hills
Cinematography
Entry Description
This video captures the beauty of El Salvador.
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- 4/23 6:31 pm - Nice work with your Smartphone to capture your trip to El Salvador, the music was a great fit as you were able to complement the shots to the rhythm and the dissolves worked as well. Many of the shots looked like they were shot in Auto, which means you missed the opportunity to select specific exposure or focus settings to direct the viewer to unique points of view. Next time continue to work on different perspectives, through angles and compositional elements that will bring your viewer even more intimately connected to your scenery.
- 4/23 9:40 am - Keepers: Nice sequencing with your shots; using the shots looking out of the plane window to bookend your reel gave a nice sense of closure to the story of the trip. Nice exposure and color contrast in the landscape shot with the mountain ion the background (0:26). Good texture and depth in you rain shots (1:02, 1:06). Your reel does a good job capturing the scenic beauty of your location. Your strengths seem to lean toward documentary and non-fiction work. Improvements: The reel, overall, lacked diversity. All day exterior point and shoot setups did not allow you to showcase the full range of skills required of a cinematographer. Composition of the water shot (0:08) is good but could be improved. Try placing your horizon line on one of the horizontal thirds. The two pan shots at (0:19-0:22) are a bit fast and do not give the viewer anything to focus of until the last frames when the camera stops moving. Soft Focus (0:29). White balance (0:43). Exposure/contrast (1:08). You have a good start. Keep filming and experimenting to further develop your technical skills.
- 4/17 10:33 am - POSITIVES: Camera: Most shots are steady. Nice reveal @:56. Your shots with NO camera movement were more captivating and had more to engage the viewer--good composition & framing on those. Lighting: Rainy day shots conveyed a small bit of variety in the Mood. Editing: Interesting location that creates a good "story" with visual fluency. AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT: Camera Movement: Very little variety. Pan shots are too fast in the first :30. Pan shots with similar composition are repetitive--choose your best 1 or 2. Not all pan shots finish on a focal point, and some are trimmed while still moving or are wobbly at the end; decide what focal point will be, and then hold that for a second when you get there for emphasis. Camera Angle: Very little variety-- mostly flat shots at a standard height No Lighting variety--only exterior daylight shots with no lighting variety (i.e., backlight, directional lighting)
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