Love Story

Love Story - Becky and Aaron · August 4th, 2009, 09:43 PM

This is my first short love story video, and first interview of a couple.
I would appreciate any feedback you may have.

I learned a lot from this one so far. Some mistakes I made were: not paying attention to technical details like focus during interview because I was busy asking questions so it's slightly off, shooting our own b-roll footage rather than just shooting what the photographer was shooting for his engagement photo session - when I got to the edit I was bored with a lot of the footage. I did not want to interrupt his paid for time with the customer, so the only time I had them to myself was to do the interview after the photo shoot.

"Failure is the fertilzer to success!" - at least that's what I tell myself! :)

Here it is:
Becky and Aaron - Love Story on Vimeo

Matt Barwick · August 4th, 2009, 11:38 PM

Hey Kenzie,

Thanks for sharing this and good job for a first effort with a love story. I thought it was a nice, brief insight into their lives and their story. They were obviously very relaxed with you and comfortable being in front of the camera which gives you a huge head start.

As you mentioned, some more footage of them together in different locations/scenes would've really strengthened it. The sequence beginning around 2:20 would have been beautiful if that garbage bin on the left had been cropped :(

Overall great job for your first and I'm sure you learned heaps!

Cheers,

Matt.

Richard Wakefield · August 5th, 2009, 03:26 AM

i thought this was good too! really nice couple, and very comfortable around the camera

the audio went a bit weird at the 1:35 mark, as if it needed ambience audio, or the song needed to go up again

also, i liked the way it was kept short and sweet...seemed just right in length

Matthew Craggs · August 5th, 2009, 07:53 AM

Good job. The only thing I can gripe about it that the background noise was distracting for me. I may have missed it but I didn't see a lav mic. Maybe you could mic each of them next time and move them to a location without cars in the background. Or, if you only have one lav, interview them each separately and play their answers off of one another.

I do like their interaction though. They're a cute couple.

Aaron Mayberry · August 5th, 2009, 08:59 AM

A few shots of them with the dogs would of been fitting. We hear so much about how the dogs played a role in them meeting, but the visuals are them walking around together.

Stephen J. Williams · August 5th, 2009, 11:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aaron Mayberry

A few shots of them with the dogs would of been fitting. We hear so much about how the dogs played a role in them meeting, but the visuals are them walking around together.

I thought the same thing... The dogs could have added to the piece. But overall I liked it a lot. Thought it was great pacing and length.
Pretty clever way of asking his wife to marry him also.

Steve

Kenzie delaTorre · August 11th, 2009, 08:34 AM

Thank you everyone for your reviews and critique!

Matt: I see what you are saying about the trash can. great tip.

Richard: do you mean where the audio fades out, but the end of the clip (slomo part) has no audio?
Yeah I hear ya. So maybe I should let the laughing audio drag on through the slomo ending?

Mathew: yeah, no lav mic at all ont hat day, our sennheiser ME2 broke the day before (brand new), sent it back to sennheiser and just got the replacement today actually.
So I basically had a sennheiser handheld mic (wired) hanging from above them just barely out of camera on a "boom", actually a mic stand.
It was REALLY loud there and the wind was blowing hard. We were in downtown houston right next to an interstate making a ton of road noise, and downtown noise of course.
For this session I did not have as much freedom as we will have for other sessions. This couple did not book us to do the video, so I asked them if I could tag along at their photo session that the photographer was doing.
For all future interviews we will require that they record in studio.

Aaron: no choice in the dogs being part of it. like I said, this was an experiment and a tag along to a paid for photographers photo session. They agreed to stick around afterwards to do an interview, but the photographer did what they were asked to do for the engagement photo session.

August 4th, 2009, 11:38 PM	#2
Matt Barwick Regular Crew Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Kingscliff, Australia Posts: 196	Hey Kenzie, Thanks for sharing this and good job for a first effort with a love story. I thought it was a nice, brief insight into their lives and their story. They were obviously very relaxed with you and comfortable being in front of the camera which gives you a huge head start. As you mentioned, some more footage of them together in different locations/scenes would've really strengthened it. The sequence beginning around 2:20 would have been beautiful if that garbage bin on the left had been cropped :( Overall great job for your first and I'm sure you learned heaps! Cheers, Matt. __________________ www.mattbarwickfilms.com / wedding videos gold coast / my stuff on Vimeo

August 5th, 2009, 08:59 AM	#5
Aaron Mayberry Major Player Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Flint, MI Posts: 212	A few shots of them with the dogs would of been fitting. We hear so much about how the dogs played a role in them meeting, but the visuals are them walking around together. __________________ www.styleandmotion.com - Modern Wedding Films based in Michigan www.miweddingblog.com - Michigan's dedicated wedding blog

August 5th, 2009, 03:26 AM	#3
Richard Wakefield Major Player Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Surrey, UK Posts: 680	i thought this was good too! really nice couple, and very comfortable around the camera the audio went a bit weird at the 1:35 mark, as if it needed ambience audio, or the song needed to go up again also, i liked the way it was kept short and sweet...seemed just right in length

August 5th, 2009, 07:53 AM	#4
Matthew Craggs Major Player Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Welland, Ontario Posts: 311	Good job. The only thing I can gripe about it that the background noise was distracting for me. I may have missed it but I didn't see a lav mic. Maybe you could mic each of them next time and move them to a location without cars in the background. Or, if you only have one lav, interview them each separately and play their answers off of one another. I do like their interaction though. They're a cute couple.

August 11th, 2009, 08:34 AM	#7
Kenzie delaTorre New Boot Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Houston, Tx Posts: 23	Thank you everyone for your reviews and critique! Matt: I see what you are saying about the trash can. great tip. Richard: do you mean where the audio fades out, but the end of the clip (slomo part) has no audio? Yeah I hear ya. So maybe I should let the laughing audio drag on through the slomo ending? Mathew: yeah, no lav mic at all ont hat day, our sennheiser ME2 broke the day before (brand new), sent it back to sennheiser and just got the replacement today actually. So I basically had a sennheiser handheld mic (wired) hanging from above them just barely out of camera on a "boom", actually a mic stand. It was REALLY loud there and the wind was blowing hard. We were in downtown houston right next to an interstate making a ton of road noise, and downtown noise of course. For this session I did not have as much freedom as we will have for other sessions. This couple did not book us to do the video, so I asked them if I could tag along at their photo session that the photographer was doing. For all future interviews we will require that they record in studio. Aaron: no choice in the dogs being part of it. like I said, this was an experiment and a tag along to a paid for photographers photo session. They agreed to stick around afterwards to do an interview, but the photographer did what they were asked to do for the engagement photo session.