WXM said:
I have more a general observation. I’m somewhat reluctant to say it because you’ve surely put a lot of work in to almost all these shots, but I’ll go ahead since you say you want feedback. In my humble opinion — and maybe it’s just me, maybe no one else thinks so — there’s just a little too much packed into this opening of the movie, are too many shots, almost as if you’re making sure to include every possible thing that could fit, but I think this is at the sacrifice of an easier flow for the audience.
E.g., the dam scene (from 2:13:17 to 3:12:13) has 31 shots. That’s a lot for under one minute, but it’s not a huge sin in and of itself. Still, removing three or four of the more redundant/repeating ones (such as toward the end of the scene, with the multiple views of the same thing: the water crashing over and cars flying) might help ease audience fatigue perhaps? I mean, this whole opening of the movie is 17 minutes long, and contains a lot, so everything you have should not fall in the category of being redundant…because all that running time here and we haven’t even hit the main movie yet. (Another little example spot in this regard that pinged me was at 12:29:04, where you have two shots of the ship flying in the high atmosphere. It seems that one would be just fine.)
But, again, maybe this all is just me. If someone wants to chime in and disagree, totally cool by me 😃
I really hope I’m not dis-spiriting you. This is really neat work! 😃 Just needs a little smidge of tightening is my thought, my two cents. Shutting up now 😃
This is the kinda feedback i need, so thank you, id agree I do need to tone it down, I’m just read your post once, I will need to read it again properly when I’m. At my computer as I’m. Reading this on the phone
