OT: More feedback?

jkrepner wrote on 2/23/2006, 11:26 AM
Hey gang,

Here is the 2nd and 3rd videos of the coffee trilogy tradeshow video that I'm working on. If you are interested, take a look. My specific question on the first one would be, how you would have handled the section starting at :46? It is just a long series of bullet points. I felt like I wanted to show visuals to support them, but there wasn't any visuals at my disposal. Plus it would have been too much. I also noticed there is all sorts of junk around the video frame I didn't notice on the monitor.

http://scuzzofilm.com/media/video/OneStop_rev4_256.wmv

The second is just a little bumper between the above video and the one I posted yesterday. I think I'm going to change the wording on this one. The text is straight from their brochure, but it looks messy. It's just a ruff draft, but I figured I'd post it to see if I should kill it or not. Question on effects, I wanted the background to change brightness levels so I copied the background video and placed it on the track above the original and changed the overlay mode to "add," then played with the composite level. I wanted to animate it to the music, but not so much that it was predictable. I feel it sort of works, but still seems too automatic. I wanted it to feel more alive, more electric. Any ideas? (other than not quitting my day job)

http://scuzzofilm.com/media/video/Definition_rev2.wmv

Comments are always welcomed. Thanks.

Jeff

(p.s. I feel especially grammar conscience now.)


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Jay Gladwell wrote on 2/23/2006, 1:00 PM

(p.s. I feel especially grammar conscience now.)

LOL -- Jeff, for what it's worth, I'm always "grammar conscience" and I still make grammatical errors!

<looking at you viideos>


Jay Gladwell wrote on 2/23/2006, 1:06 PM

Jeff, looked at the videos and gotta a question: Why are the coffee cups that are shown always empty?

At one point in the longer video, you have an empty cup in the background, out of focus and several text cards appear listing products. This is one of those cases where Grazie's (I think it was) suggestion for a nicely lit cup of steaming coffee would have worked really well.

It almost appears that you (or they) have gone out of your way not to show any coffee, except for the beans.


jkrepner wrote on 2/23/2006, 1:20 PM
Hey Jay, thanks for reviewing. I keep missing this empty cup thing. What gives? Is it a Freudian slip, or what? For what it's worth, I took out the empty coffee cup in the last video I posted and replaced it with an attractive (and smiling) young women in a coffee shop. I used stock photos since there wasn't time for a real shoot. I don't have it posted online yet, or I'd show you.

In this case, the out-of-focus cup just popped out as good background when I was going through the stock photos. Weird. I could have just as easily used a full cup and blurred it myself.

Jeff