Crit: A short film on Bath Abbey

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My current Project is moving image, to find a place locally with History, and sort of document it, or really do what we want with it.

https://vimeo.com/37271544

There was a rogue placeholder which meant this output is over 5 mins long, most of it nothing, once it goes black theres no more.

Any Critique, as harsh as you like really, its a bit of a quick and dirty edit, but I am kind of running out of time, I may go re shoot some and use a tripod for every shot, I wish I had originally. Has to be under 1:30.
 
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Go back and do it again with a tripod. Some of it is very shaky and unsettling to watch to be honest.

From 00.20 to 00.38 doesn't really work wither. It's more like someone just left a camera running while they ran to the car rather than a documentary feel to it. The angles are wrong and maybe you should have panned or something. I'm not a filmmaker so I'm only telling you what I didn't like rather than suggesting what you should have done because I don't honestly know what would have worked better.

Apart from using a tripod that is :)
 
As above, the shimmer is quite disconcerting - unstable camera and wafer-thin DoF. The depth of field in several places was so thin that it was difficult to determine what was the focus of the shot (the book?). 1:30 isn't long to create a narrative, maybe some movement within each montage element?
 
There is severe rolling shutter on parts of this video. It can be reduced using the stabilise function in most edit software - some have a specific rolling shutter setting. Basically nice images though, well focused and correctly exposed.
 
I don't understand what caused the rolling shutter? Some of them are already stabilised and rolling shutter didn't do anything to the clips :/ Using FCPX
 
Thanks, I went back and got some more footage today, hopefully make it a bit more interesting, they had an orchestra there practicing so got some shots of that, and opened the aperture a little
 
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