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Hey duders, check out my final project in my film styles class entitled "Sally".

Let me know what you think!

http://vimeo.com/41798726

Not bad. My suggestion is that you should use a little more light. I should shoot your films with more light so the footage has more detail and then you can lower the exposure when you're editing your film. Also, for your next film, use a catch light. Just get a small dim flashlight and have it directed towards your actor's face so they get a small semblance of light on their iris. It's a subtle trick to make your subject more human, doesn't give the dead eye look, meaning, from a distance all you see if black in the person's eye.

So much NTTV in this haha.

Awesome man I really liked it!

You've got good horror pacing.

@RockinKemosabe said:

Not bad. My suggestion is that you should use a little more light. I should shoot your films with more light so the footage has more detail and then you can lower the exposure when you're editing your film. Also, for your next film, use a catch light. Just get a small dim flashlight and have it directed towards your actor's face so they get a small semblance of light on their iris. It's a subtle trick to make your subject more human, doesn't give the dead eye look, meaning, from a distance all you see if black in the person's eye.

Having been going to the same college as OP, and having taken that same class, and remembering all you have to work with from the school is a Sony camera with a zoom lens (HMC-150) and a Lowell 3-light kit (of which only two are really usable because the third you can't diffuse or gel easily without melting them), I'm pretty impressed with the low-light cinematography. That's hard to pull off without clearly looking like you just couldn't afford lights. This looks it was shot on a DSLR though which already gives it an advantage in the low-light area.

Overall this is pretty impressive in terms of pacing and tension. Little details make all the difference.

@cwdawg1224: I thought it was a nice job and enjoyed it a lot more than your first one. To me, the two main girls you used for actors seemed nervous or more self aware and that took me out of it a bit. I don't know if you are going to extrapolate on this story more but I felt like the atmosphere and pacing was good and would love to see more. I look forward to seeing more films from you.