A Guy Named Guy - ID# 495
Maine West
Seven Day Challenge
Entry Description
This is a romantic satire about a guy named, "Guy."
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Judge 1
Positives: Excellent humor and concept execution. The camera movement was creative and thoughtful. Picture editing was smooth and made sense to the narrative. It was an engaging three minutes that moved quickly, and the story beats were clear. Its obvious that time was spent on the script and that you selected an achievable idea you could do in seven days. That's a strong testament to your producers, pre-pro and teamwork setting production up for success!
Improvements: Watch your sound editing, especially in the beginning. There are moments where you cut your dialogue hard when you go to the next scene, and the levels peak. You will also need to switch to royalty-free music if you want to show this outside of an academic setting. You can also benefit from showing the narrator at the beginning and end, then keeping him as a VO in your 2nd act. Cutting back and forth to his commentary breaks the momentum when we should be in the story itself rather than our meta moments. Just because it is a rom-com, doesn't mean the story isn't important. You do a great job of making us care about the characters, only to use the narrator to tell the audience we shouldn't. Avoid talking down to the audience. They are the reason your films get watched! Overall, great job.
Judge 2
Positives: lololol - this is crazy. 1 - Well shot! many funny scenes, and there's a built in challenge here when you're applying so many layers of a story in a story, which is to visually make the area's feel different enough, that the viewer immediately knows that "oh ok, we're back to the guy (hehe) reading this". 2 - the story took many turns, and each time playing on a trope, and adding funny layers of context. I feel the filmmakers sense of humor, which is a good thing.
Improvements: 1 - Ok, you made yourself a big challenge in trying to balance the different scenes and layers of context, while still taking the viewer along for the ride in a clear way. One area that I'd like you to think about is the role of the storyteller/narrator character. I feel that this person is somewhere between being the voice of the audience, and his own character. But I feel kinda caught in between those two. 2 - I think adding more score and SFX would help carry us through this story!
Judge 3
Positives: The lighting was consistent throughout. There was a variety of locations and camera shots. There was a clear distinction with the narrator and their separation from the story.
Improvements: The story was somewhat unclear and confusing. Although the piece was a satire of a romance, the dialogue was distracting at times.
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