Quote: "Some minor sound niggles, some very minor composition niggles - your feet are out of shot at the bottom when you are kicking and screaming at the end."
It's funny that you mention that, because that was on purpose. The guy playing the murderer brought a pair of grey shoes instead of the black used in the rest of the movie, so he had to use my black shoes for all of those shots. You can notice at the very last cut of me sitting there when the murderer walks off, I only have socks on. He was wearing my black shoes. haha.
And camera shake is a very touchy subject in film. Some people think it is very overused and or overdone, while some, like me, think it really adds to it. Sometimes it's ridiculous, like in the Blair Witch Project. If you have a moving shot, just tell the cameraman to keep the camera steady and just naturally it will shake. Depending on the intensity of what you're shooting, the camera shake will inherently scale while keeping everything visible.
@ Aaron: I'm not sure how they produced such high quality video then. My camera shoots at 1280 x 720 and if I shot on a tripod and added the camera shake, that would be greatly reduced. The reason I mention this is that I know Cloverfield was shot with handheld digital cameras for an authentic look, so that also must've been a concern of their's.
Quote: "Spot on man. I agree with the darkness BUT it was preferential to having it in broad day light. Color correction is not easy to do."
Thank you, it really is. Especially on low-end cameras. My next goal is to get the Magic Bullet suite for After Effects and get a better HD camera. For example, that scene at the end, where I am in that massive yellow room: that room was actually pure white. My camera is so bad that it turned everything irreversibly yellow. haha
Thanks for the criticism everybody! It's very helpful. I have been very much considering a career in film, not sure exactly what yet.
