THe shakiness is adding to a sureal reception.
To much and it is distracting. I personally love a handheld image.
But like Battle LA - it was to much - especially on the grave yard. The director probably wanted to give the reality feeling. Our human eye is used to homevideos being shaky .
Homevideo = reality - since real people filming real incidents in their life. so our mind is making this calculation on its own.
Shaky = real
but too much is a distracting factor.
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I found it the notch to much in your movie caspian - especially on rather story related items...
the beginning unclear ness and shakiness at the first torture seen there - that was the perfect recepy - I had the feeling of beeing actually knocked out ( was many times in my life) and wake slowly up - it really had it there....
for the office and other rather focused scenes you needed not as much shaking but maybe more cutting - focus changes - indicating a secret transaction - going down cache cache.
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But before all and all - I have to say - Hands down - you did a lot of work - and that interest in doing this rather then sitting in a bar drinking beer and getting hammered speaks already for you.
I recommend to every critic if vulgaer and rude or polite and kind to try something like that on his own.
To me it is not alright when we attack rudely a youngster who puts his time and money and has to ask friends in additions to help a lot, into such a project - puts his best knowledge into it. Gives it his best shot with the equipment he can afford ( and this shit is so super expensive) - and is kind enough to share it with us - that we tell him it is shit - it sucks - you suck da di dada da
Not alright gents.
You did alright young man - I do like your visuals - you have the hang to the sureal. Love it. The rest is details - finetuning so to say.
But you have the gift of the beholders eye and what it wants to see or asume rather - if you go into the sureal
my two cents. since I do that little filming crap myself - but far from the abillities of Caspian.
a little look - let me know boys if you like it
YouTube - Teaser two - Terminators defeat - the EMP.wmv