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A Little Scary

Hi everyone,
Here is the first installment of "A Little Scary", a comedy horror we just completed. It is about a client who begins seeing a therapist to improve his life, only to find it deteriorating further.


Looking forward to hearing what you think! Thanks.
 
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I think I missed the horror part. Didn't see any horror.
The therapist was the best part of it. Without his performance, I probably would have turned it off after 1 minute.
 
I think I missed the horror part. Didn't see any horror.
The therapist was the best part of it. Without his performance, I probably would have turned it off after 1 minute.
Thanks for checking out our show!
The show will progressively become more horror throughout the episodes, but it starts out more as a comedy.
 
unfortunately the close ups of the guy were the lowest quality shots (by far) in the film
Just needed to bring that one up to par with the rest of them.

Mostly the close ups needed better lighting but in general a plain white wall is the hallmark of an amateur film, try to avoid it if you can!
the basic white wall behind him is killing your shot.

Taping a bit of wallpaper behind him or a tapestry or something would work wonders
moving him further away from the wall helps too.

Good start !
Series are ambitious, its such a commitment.
 
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Technically, I was distracted by the sound. The therapist's voice was almost always booming while the patient's voice was clearly being recorded with the mic too far away from him. There was noticeable reverberation when the patient spoke and none at all when the therapist spoke. It was easy to figure out why though. Almost all of the patient's dialog was spoken in a wide shot while the therapist's dialog was almost always spoken in a one shot or close up. The mic was too close to the therapist in the camera angles you used for him, and it was too far away from the patient in the angles you used for him. Nothing terrible, but noticeable.

I know there is a sound recording rule of thumb about moving the microphone further away when the camera is further away but even in those situations, allowing the dialog track to become plagued with echo only seems to work when used for effect; to emphasize the cavernous space of the room. I would not expect the sound in a small office to go from flat to echoey just because the camera was pulled back or zoomed out a little.
 
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