Great work dtango!
Good footage, good camera angles and good storytelling. Very well done.
I can't wait to see more, hopefully soon. 
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Kermit: Thanks for the kind words
. Coming from you that means a lot because you know how much work it is to do something like this even for a 4 minute video! Gave me a lot of practice for flying the camera around using the ahfilmviewer "setup shots" function.
...I like the song, but also agree with Latrobe. It seems to be overused....
Is there a link to this "Gunfighters" film?
Wedge: hehe well you can blame my 8 year old son for using "Bring Me to Life"
. I had him choose the song he thought we should use from a group of songs I had picked out. His 1st choice was actually a Foo Fighters song but it was locked and I couldn't use it so I went with his 2nd choice.
Scotch gave a link to "Gunfighters". Let me know if that doesn't work for you.
Well, perhaps it's apples and oranges and was unfair to MR2 to bring Gunfighters up. Your work shouldn't necessarily need to compete against your other pieces. You definitely spent some time and thought on this one and it shows. People can definitely watch this and aspire to create or improve their own work.
Because of my flying style I probably do identify with Gunfighters more. But it wasn't the story telling alone that drew me and others into that film. Your use of sounds in Gunfighters was great. Hearing the engines of the 51 and the Yak duking it out gives me chills and is something I'm trying to work on with my current k4 project. I was a little surprised not to hear any sounds other than the soundtrack in this one since you've definitely mastered it.
PS: I did want to call a couple of those 51's picktards.... 
Scotch & Fulmar:
In the end I was trying to make a video my kids would enjoy made up of some cool sequences that my boys would say "that was awesome dad!"
. So I was looking to do something that wouldn't just plain kill me making it
but would be short, light, and fun to do.
I totally understand why you and fulmar like the sound effects. I do to actually! The decision regarding the sound effects was partly based on effort (a lot more work to do it!) and partly by artistic design. I put sound effects in "Two Horsemen" which had a U2 song for a soundtrack in it. I've always been torn about doing that. It worked good in "Gunfighters" because the sound didn't compete with the cinematic musical score. In "Two Horsemen" I always thought that the song and sound effects competed with each other so this time I opted to just leave out the sound effects instead because of my song choice.
Regardless thanks for taking the time to respond with what you liked or not. It always gives me ideas for the next one!
...The shots were short and action packed, though the timeline in the dog fights between camera angles always seemed to vary a bit too much at times. As in, parts of the battle (only a few seconds) were skipped and planes did not seem to flow in a continuing timeline some one camera angle to another (confusing?)...
Fulmar & MjTalon:
Yea, I was really torn about the dogfight sequences. Most of those fights actually lasted a lot longer than what is portrayed. I could make whole movies just for a given dogfight
! I had to condense those sequences down to just enough to try to give people an idea with what happened.
Continuity editing in an action sequence is hard enough to do as it is. On top of that all the dogfight sequences I had to figure out a way to try and condense time down, fit the pace of the music, and try to maintain continuity. It would have flowed a lot better if I decided to cut down the number of montages because I could plan out the continuity editing better with more time to spare to move the views appropriately with the changing "line of action" as they say in cinematography! I decided to trade off fluid continuity to fit more montage sequences to flow better with the rhythm of the music.
Again, thanks all for the comments!
Tango, XO
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