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Offline frank3

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Suez Durable Energy Contest
« on: June 13, 2010, 06:07:30 AM »
Hello all,

my name is Frank, I'm from the Netherlands and I'm trying to help a friend win the contest below, I hope you can help us!

The contest
Suez, one of the world's largest energy suppliers, has organized a contest to make a video about durable energy. Goal is to make the world aware of the depleting energy sources (and in the end more clients for Suez ofcourse  ;) )
Now, my friend made a video of his own, and I was wondering if you all could take a look and see what you think of it.
Please excuse his English, it's not 100% clear!

Thank you!

Here is the link;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2r3STN2qa8

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Re: Suez Durable Energy Contest
« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2010, 02:15:58 PM »
he does a good job of it however if you plan to present this ... as the 'resume' for his work... then he needs to re-do it.


1- The outside scenes have too much wind-in-microphone noise. That destroys the professional impact it has on the audience and looks amateurish.

2- Scene transition is too fast and disorienting. For example, between 0:20 and 0:24 the scene goes from him cooking an egg and then POOF next frame he's in another room talking the moment the scene shifted. Then he goes from changing the thermostat to being outside. Change of scene is too abrupt.

3- the 'world without energy' scenes of him getting bored, having no car, etc have good accompanying music. but the scrolling text on the bottom is just baaad. It'd be better to use text that fades in an out at different points in the screen..it keeps the audience attention and delivers the information.

At the end of the video the 'history' of energy scrolls by too fast, and the letters block the final scene.. thats bad. again, use fade in/out text and use a font like Times Roman or Arial not that comic sans serif like font that was used. Better yet, find a way for him to NARRATE it so people dont turn their attention to reading rather than seeing the effect of a world without energy.

4- he needs to use a tripod when filming. Much of the material has the hand wobble which gives it a look as if was done by for a middle school project.


Finally.. just what exactly is the video supposed to be delivering? You mention the contest is to 'to make the world aware of the depleting energy sources' ... but how does this video tie that in with getting more clients for suez? I see no mention of what Suez has done or plans to do ...why would suez deserve the prize?


His english is very good so you dont need to worry about that. he also acts rather well.. the scenes of him bored and playing chess were great.
« Last Edit: June 13, 2010, 02:20:25 PM by Tac »

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Re: Suez Durable Energy Contest
« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2010, 04:05:18 PM »
Tac, thanks alot for your feedback on this, it's the first time he made an audiovisual and sure could use all the tips!
I will forward it to him, appreciated!

The tripod would've been great, sadly not available at the time

Thanks again for comments and feedback

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Re: Suez Durable Energy Contest
« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2010, 05:06:34 PM »
If you also can, make sure to improve the lighting by using a good quality light on a stick, or better yet, natural light.  I agree, the comic sans was bad.

Also, those popping in things weren't proffesional, and his age didn't need to be that emphasised.

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Re: Suez Durable Energy Contest
« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2010, 07:42:56 AM »
He's working on another version as we speak, he wants me to thank you all for your input, appreciate it!