And the critics say...

    When we sent our short film to Ariel, she thought the concept of vampires in love is not a new one, but that we added a unique twist to the idea that kept me engaged for the two minutes. Ariel’s opinion not only meant a lot to Elena and Mary because she was critiquing and giving feedback on our film. But because she is our friend. We wanted her too genuinely like it. After watching the film, she had a list of pros and cons. Things she thought we did well and some things we could improve upon. The pros were that she thought we had good angles, nice lighting, our costumes and the drama. The con was the audio. She said that the angles we chose to use for each of our shots fit. That even though they were simple we weren’t trying to overpower our work. As for the lighting she complimented us on our ability to work as the sun was setting. This was something we only had so much control over but we did it really well. As for our costumes, she thought that they fit our vision when trying to fit the characters costumes. She believed that they fit the characters personality in the end.

    We thanked her for that and really enjoyed what she had to say because we thought long and hard about what we were going to dress the characters in. The drama, Ariel commended us for fitting the amount of drama we did into the two minutes we had. She quoted it as “immersive and that the mystery is created nicely.” Now Elena and Mary are very dramatic beings so of course we tried to fit as much in as we could. As for the con. The audio/speech, she noted that we should have spoken louder. To try and get the clearest sound. However, she did acknowledge that we were filming in the wind and maybe that wasn’t the best idea. All in all she seemed to enjoy our project. 



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