Viel Besser. Immer hin.
I found that much more watcheable than the maypole video, even though the subject wasn't as interesting. The dissolves were, as you say, necessary and fitted the mood without becoming boring. I'm not normally a fan of travelogue stuff but I liked this video.
But...
(Please, please don't get the wrong idea, I'm not criticising just for fun, there are enough skateboarding videos around if I wanted to go in for that.)
To raise your video to the next level, you need to concentrate a bit more on the sound. Or rather the lack of it.
Just having music is okay but a bit of ambient sound would have raised the bar. Recording a couple of wild tracks of the waterfalls and the general open air sounds and adding them in the right place would have improved the contact the viewer feels to the scene.
Finally a commentary (done afterwards NOT at the time of shooting) with a few facts, figures and information would give the viewer a clue as to what he/she's watching.
These are just my impressions, but I must say that the video is a vast improvement and I'm really being quite anally picky.
PS, just a tip. When you're doing close-ups and the background is fussy, try to move so that it doesn't distract so much or move back. If that's not an option then I would zoom in and/or get the lens to open up to throw the background out of focus. On a sunny day you might have to use a neutral density (grey) filter or a polarising filter to reduce the light coming through the lens. If that doesn't work, adjust the "shutter" to make the lens open up.
But that is really ultra-nit-picking on my part.
Gruss gott.
Edit: Having just read my post, it sounds quite arrogant and know-it-all. I don't mean it to be such, it's really meant as friendly advice, not as stuck-up criticism.
Last edited by The Guru; 05-14-2006 at 01:44 PM.
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